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Campy but gave me a Bad Dream

posted 18 years ago by rj2uman
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I have been looking on the net all day today trying to figure out what this movie was called! I had a dream that was a scene directly out of this movie. Like the reviewer I also saw this movie almost 20 years ago on TV really, really late at night. The acting was pretty campy and of involved young Aussie's so it made even more campy. But there is a scene where they are watching news updates on the war and they show some footage of survivors in the USA of one nuclear detonation. The scene is intensely graphic. Burned people, burned black with skin hanging off and everywhere, women and children screaming from the pain of their burns. I have no idea why I dreamt of this but now I would like to see the movie again. Just to see if it was as graphic as I remember it to be.

[–] tgs333 18 years ago

That's awesome! Sorry bout the bad dream though eh. I remember watching this movie when I was about 13 years old, that "news cast" scene haunted me for YEARS! I obatined a VHS copy of this movie on Ebay a year and a half ago and that scene still packs a punch! That scene, IMO, is more haunting than any of the scenes in the movies: Threads and The Day After (both Nuclear War Disaster movies). Even more creepy is you having a dream about it after all these years! If you get the movie, be sure and post back here your thoughts. I remember a few months back, I was re-watching the film and feel asleep late one night watching it and was startled out of my sleep when this scene played!

Check in on www.ebay.com or www.amazon.com to obtain this film. Good luck!

"I'm a vehemently anti-nuclear, paranoid mess, harbouring a strange obsession with radioactive sheep."

[–] ajay05 17 years ago

Totally agree, even having watched this film a lot of times the news scene still gets to me, the newsreaders faltering poise leading into it makes it all the more realistic IMO too

[–] tgs333 16 years ago

Oh yeah... the newscaster's dreaded explnation and daunting appearnce before showing that clip was very haunting. And if you notice in the background, the other press workers looking at monitors with shock and awe, because they are looking at the same thing we are about to see. anyways, ajay05, good to hear your thoughts about this scene. What are your thoughts about the movie in general if you don't mind me asking.

"I'm a vehemently anti-nuclear, paranoid mess, harbouring a strange obsession with radioactive sheep."

[–] ajay05 16 years ago

I really like the film (and some of John Duigans other films as well for that matter), it definitely ranks with one of my all time favourites and it's a shame a lot more people haven't seen it

I was only 11 or 12 when I first saw it and I watched it after I had seen the Day After but before I'd seen Threads for the first time as I was a little obsessed with nuclear war, etc at that time

It had a bit of everything in it and for mine it represented the general attitude a lot of Aussies had about the nuclear threat during the 80's and I felt you could connect with the characters

[–] tgs333 16 years ago

I was 13 when I first saw One Night Stand. I remeber for a long time I wanted to visit Austrila when I grew up, the movie made it seem a cool place to be.

I watched threads when I was 12, and like you - at that age I was obsessed with Nuclear War. Ain't it an odd obessision to have? lol.... I'm still obsessed with it.

"I'm a vehemently anti-nuclear, paranoid mess, harbouring a strange obsession with radioactive sheep."

[–] ajay05 16 years ago

It is a strange subject to have an obsession about, i remember I always had the local library's stock of Nuclear War books on pretty much constant loan, i'd return some and re-loan others, etc

Australia was in a weird situation during the 80's, a lot of people didn't think we would be a target but with the US bases, the joint Over The Horizon radar facilities, etc we had a few bullseyes of our own and I can still recall seeing ads for fall-out shelters in a lot of our major newspapers around the early to mid 80's so the issue was definitely on a lot of peoples minds

[–] tgs333 16 years ago

My 7th grade science project was based on the city of Detroit (Michigan) getting hit with a 2 megaton nuclear bomb. I even made a scale model of a nuked Detroit.

Anyways, I think One Night Stand, John Duigan, tries to get across to us - the viewer - is about "living in the moment." Would you agree? That in One Night Stand, the past and the future are essentsially irrilvent? It would seem so.

"I'm a vehemently anti-nuclear, paranoid mess, harbouring a strange obsession with radioactive sheep."

[–] Gmork76 14 years ago

IT gave me a nightmare too...last night after watching it yesterday. It's scary in a 80's way..just like watching Day After in the 90's....it stays with you for a long time...
Great movie!

"Microchanges in air density, my a$$....."

[–] tgs333 13 years ago

Aghh, this move needs to make it to DVD, so we can get a commentary on how this scene was put together.

"I'm a vehemently anti-nuclear, paranoid mess, harbouring a strange obsession with radioactive sheep."