{"id":9,"date":"2004-04-14T20:47:42","date_gmt":"2004-04-14T20:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/applecrumble.wordpress.com\/2004\/04\/14\/threads\/"},"modified":"2017-10-01T13:34:58","modified_gmt":"2017-10-01T13:34:58","slug":"threads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/2004\/04\/14\/threads\/","title":{"rendered":"Threads"},"content":{"rendered":"
Many years ago, I stayed up watching TV slightly later than usual with mum and dad and happened to see Threads<\/a>. It must have completely scared the crap out of me as I can still remember scenes quite vividly – the woman wetting herself in the street as she sees a mushroom cloud rise over Sheffield and people running all over the place and the burning body of what looked like ET<\/a>!
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\nI had completely forgotten about this film until about three years ago when I was watching I Love 1984<\/a>. Seeing clips of the film again brought it all flooding back and I just had to see what I could find about the film on the Internet. I had no idea that the film was such a product of its time – back in 1984, the Government were telling people to redesign their homes<\/a> in order to prepare for a nuclear attack<\/a>!<\/p>\n

Over the past few months I have been trying to buy a DVD copy of Threads. For some reason it has been deleted and is now changing hands for a lot of money on eBay<\/a> – more than I would like to pay. Why would you delete a DVD when it is clearly in demand?<\/p>\n

I was gutted to learn that I had missed a recent screening on BBC4 – wouldn’t it be great if you could get emailed when a film you want to see is added to upcoming schedules?<\/p><\/div>\n

Many years ago, I stayed up watching TV slightly later than usual with mum and dad and happened to see Threads. It must have completely scared the crap out of me as I can still remember scenes quite vividly – the woman wetting herself in the street as she sees a mushroom cloud rise over […]<\/div>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-film","7":"h-entry","9":"hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":26,"url":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/2004\/05\/02\/threads-again\/","url_meta":{"origin":9,"position":0},"title":"Threads again","author":"Andrew Doran","date":"2 May 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"I finally got around to watching my Threads DVD last night. 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