...makes "Day After" looking like "Meet the Fockers"... really up to "Threads" standard, but the post war scenario is much grimmer in this one.
Very glad I didn't see it back in 1986 when the Second Cold War was at its peak, and it looked like something like this would start any second. It could be interesting to hear the Russian opinion on this movie, maybe for someone old enough to remember when it was first released.
I am a Russian and I still consider this is the scariest movie I've ever seen.
In 1987 I've been serving in the army.
Recent Chernobyl disaster (1986) and heinous rumors around it certainly added to the atmosphere in so called Lenin's room where our TV was installed.
Goofy "The day after" was aired approximately at the same time.
Note that lots of my compatriots were superficial enough to find it better - believe it or not, despite all the propaganda absolute majority of population were crazy about the US with all its material and cultural artifacts. And it was the first modern US movies ever aired in USSR for the excited public. Everything American was a holy Grail, ideologically we were won over long before Perestroika. Army people were belonging to this majority in vast numbers, I can't imagine the real anti-US war campaign, it would be a kind of fighting against one's own dream:)
That's cool trupodur. Did you ever see the British Nuclear War movie: Threads?
Release in 1984, I was 11 years old when I first saw it. Scared the crap out of me!
I'm a vehemently anti-nuclear, paranoid mess, harbouring a strange obsession with radioactive sheep
Seen this one back in the late eighties, and yes, up to date this is the most scary/depressing movie (regarding nuclear war) I have ever seen.
And I also will never forget: "When the Wind blows" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090315/ ... same year - 1986, the year of Chernobyl.
This is grimmer than Threads? Damn. I really need to get this.
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