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Anyone else seen this film. I know it's old but I heard about it years ago and I just got in on DVD. I watched it the other night. It's the scariest thing I've seen in years and for some reason I can't get it out of my head. It really hit home at how dreadful anything like this would be if they really did drop the bomb.

With all the talk about Iran developing nuclear weapons and the US and UK in the firing line for terrorist attacks it's rather worrying. Has anyone else seen this and if so, what were your impressions?
 
We got it on DVD a couple of years back and I had to stop watching it as I found it too upsetting. For a TV film it certainly packs a punch. The thought of a nuclear attack is utterly terrifying, and this film certainly brought it home. I would have been a nervous wreck in the 60s, going through the Cuban missile crisis. :( I would hope we would know better nowadays, but sadly this doesn't seem to be the case.
 
There was a thread on here about this recently.

I remember watching it on the TV when it first came out.

I found it especially disturbing as it was set in Sheffield where I live.
When the first Nuclear attack came it showed everyone running about panic stricken in the High Street and diving for cover in Debenhams! Some of the scenes were shot in our local pub at Broomhill - just at the end of my road.

That's REALLY bringing it home to you!.:eek:
 
Masterpiece. I too saw it on tv in it's original screening and bearing in mind it was shown at a time when the cold war was really getting nasty (Regan and his Star Wars - sillly old tosser) it put the fear of God into me and everyone else I knew. It's never been equalled, let alone bettered. The US effort, "The Day After", is like Mary Poppins in comparison.
 
A lot of people of my generation watched this as part of their Modern Studies (or whatever the English equivalent is) curriculum at high school in the '90s. I certainly did, and the image of the silent flash of the bomb has stayed etched onto my brain ever since.

I saw it again on BBC4 several years back. I bought the DVD...but I have to admit, there never seems to be a good time to watch it. You have to be feeling pretty desperate before you inflict it on yourself I think.
 
Very, very good production; I'm of an age where I can remember the Cuban missile crisis and the row between mom and dad when dad found out mom had spent a big chunk of money on lots of extra tinned food
 
This was the source of my fear of nuclear attack. I was about 8 when I saw it mind (on a friend's betamax!!)

The milk bottle melting, the cat in the flames, the woman peeing herself. Don't know if I could bring myself to watch it again.
 
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