Oh God, Threads. The article is right, that really is one of the bleakest movies ever made, right up there with Grave of the Fireflies and Henry: Portrait of a

Oh God, Threads. The article is right, that really is one of the bleakest movies ever made, right up there with Grave of the Fireflies and Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer. I didn't even encounter it until long after the Cold War had ended, and it still made a huge impression on me; I can only imagine how people viewing it in Britain in 1984, at the height of Reagan-era confrontationalism, must have felt.