I can't decide which is more unsettling.
Ghostwatch or Threads.
( Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Thu 7 Apr 2011, 23:51, 20 replies)

woooooaaaaargh
Threads is raw evil
(mymilkshakebringsallthemongstotheyard poison hearts, poison minds - joining hate, Thu 7 Apr 2011, 23:53, closed)

At least the UK didn't have the Swiss siren system:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JDLl1CMuNs

They set it off one night when there was some flooding in the town and it really put the shits up us. If ever there was a way of heralding the end of the world, that siren is it.
( Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Thu 7 Apr 2011, 23:57, closed)

Fuck that
Have you heard the dutch one? I nearly shit my pants.
(mymilkshakebringsallthemongstotheyard poison hearts, poison minds - joining hate, Fri 8 Apr 2011, 0:01, closed)

I'll have a look.

( Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Fri 8 Apr 2011, 0:03, closed)

BP have
an acetic acid plant near Hull, and they occasionally test a siren. I can just hear it at my house and the first time I heard it, I was quite unsettled.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Fri 8 Apr 2011, 0:26, closed)

We lived near Broadmoor with it's weekly siren test.
A few minutes alarm, a few minutes all clear. The clever ones (and there were a lot of them in there) would escape during the test so no-one would take any notice of the alarms.
( Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Fri 8 Apr 2011, 5:31, closed)

Does it actually sound like that
Or is it the echo?
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Fri 8 Apr 2011, 0:23, closed)

Actually sounds like that.
It sounds a fair bit more discordant in real life and obviously very much louder. Used to really send the shits up the kids.
( Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Fri 8 Apr 2011, 0:24, closed)

That sounds like,
erm, I dunno, but it's pretty creepy.
(Sadarse works like Mist condensing mud flaps, Fri 8 Apr 2011, 0:49, closed)

Threads
Never seen Ghostwatch.
But the day after Threads was on TV, the chemical plant near where i lived had a siren test.
I damn near wet myself
(insomniac-surfer oh go on then, just this once, Thu 7 Apr 2011, 23:55, closed)

Ghostwatch was pretty fucking terrifying as an eight-year-old.
My aunt was babysitting and made us stay up and watch it.
( Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Thu 7 Apr 2011, 23:58, closed)

"Threads has been compared to The Day After, a 1983 U.S. television film depicting a similar scenario in the United States. (One review of both films said, "Threads makes The Day After look like A Day at the Races.")

I friggin' say.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Fri 8 Apr 2011, 0:22, closed)

TRIVIUM: I was born and grew up in the same town as the writer of "Threads".

( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Fri 8 Apr 2011, 0:51, closed)

Threads,Terrifying.
I watched Threads when it first came on tv,the stark reality and build up to the eventual,inevitable nuclear holocaust,was frightening, in a time it was a possible reality.
The breakdown of mankind and civilization was graphically depicted pulled no punches.
I have since managed to get this film on dvd and it is still a very haunting and disturbing film to watch.
(andycrass loves two hats on, Fri 8 Apr 2011, 1:50, closed)

I watched this recently
still scares the bejubus out of me.I was definitely a bit "concerned "as a 12 year old about the prospect of nuclear annihilation.
( bane, Fri 8 Apr 2011, 14:08, closed)

If anyone is interested
I've got a copy of this as 2x VCD files (700mb-ish each).

It really does fuck with your head.
(A Nony Mouse, Fri 8 Apr 2011, 12:26, closed)

Living in Sheffield when it was made, its was Threads for me. lol.

Though Ghostwatch is an utter classic of TV too.
(Azrael316 Fiss Plaps, Fri 8 Apr 2011, 12:59, closed)

Threads, definitely
Watched the whole thing for the first time last year. Very unpleasant stuff. For anyone who's not seen it and has 1:47 to spare, here it is - video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2023790698427111488
( SteamedCleaner, Fri 8 Apr 2011, 14:57, closed)

Having just watched it for the first (and last) time ...
I'd say that Threads is just about as grim as it gets. I don't know what I was expecting but it wasn't that. I'll never be the same again.

Damn you child of hades that mentioned it in the first place and got me intrigued!
( SpackyWomble, Mon 11 Apr 2011, 20:30, closed)

Threads obviously, 'cos that stuff was daily reality for much of the '80s.
(Benzyl, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 2:23, closed)