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Follow up "Threads" with "When the wind blows".

Threads is the most harrowing movie by far. Remember watching it in college and not being able to get out of bed the next day because I was so fucking depressed.

I remember watching it when it originally aired when I was 13, and having to talk about it at school the next day - we were in the middle of an assignment on the threat of nuclear war at the time, it was tacked into our english language class as I recall (tbf, I can't really think of anything else, other than possibly Physics, where the topic would have been better suited, and Physics could probably only have carried a very dry discussion of it).

having seen both, I like The Day After more.

Threads just seems like torture porn being shown to you to make you afraid of nuclear war, which had its uses in pushing for nuclear disarmament, so I can't hate it...

but The Day After does a lot more to personalize and humanize the story, each subplot makes you very intimately attached to these characters and their families by presenting their day-to-day life and aspirations, how normal their lives are when war is looming echoes our own. So when everything is blown to shit it hurts so much more.

The Day After is a light comedy compared to Threads.

Similar, but Threads is even more grim.

Nope.

Threads is much worse.

Gosh.-