Does the dog die?
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Movie • 1984 • War
ReportDocumentary style account of a nuclear holocaust and its effect on the working class city of Sheffield, England; and the eventual long run effects of nuclear war on civilization.
This movie contains 81 potentially triggering events.
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Anonymous
Dead dogs and cats are shown, though their deaths happen off-screen.
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Abandonment
Does someone leave without saying goodbye?
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StaceyWheeler
Once where Ruth runs away from home during the Finningley attack.
Then another where Jimmy leaves his colleague to go and look for Ruth.
Then another where Jimmy leaves his colleague to go and look for Ruth.
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Is a child abandoned by a parent?
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mxxowada
a child is shown calling for its mother after the explosion
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Is there domestic violence?
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Does the abused become the abuser?
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One child is shown being grotesquely abused by another, and a teen/young adult is shown being shot
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Addiction
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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StaceyWheeler
Mr Kemp is seen attempting to drink whisky which he traded his cigarettes to another man for. It doesn't go too well with radiation sickness.
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Animal
Were animals harmed in the making?
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ladyhaymaker
A scene of a dying cat was portrayed by using catnip.
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Alexandre
In addition to the other scenes mentioned here, there is a prolonged scene arond the hour and-a-half mark involving a dead sheep. It begins with a close-up of the (bloodless) corpse, but the two characters involved end up cutting open the sheep and eating it raw. This goes on for a couple minutes.
After this, near the end of the film, a close-up of a dead rabbit is shown. A girl picks up the corpse and runs around with it, as two boys try to steal it from her.
After this, near the end of the film, a close-up of a dead rabbit is shown. A girl picks up the corpse and runs around with it, as two boys try to steal it from her.
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Is there a dead animal?
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Roflpuff098
Lots of dead and dying pets, dead rats being sold as food, a dead rabbit, and a dead sheep is carved up and eaten raw by starving survivors. This movie is about people surviving the immediate and long term effects of nuclear war. There is an indescribable amount of death in this film.
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Does a cat die?
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Anonymous
A cat is shown asphyxiating during a fire storm (the cat was, in reality, dosed with catnip to get it to roll around as if it was dying.)
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Are there spiders?
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Anonymous
The film opens with a spider spinning a web. It's presented in a peaceful manner and isn't intended to trigger/scare the viewer.
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Are there bugs?
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StaceyWheeler
Maggots.
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Assault
Does a woman get slapped?
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Is rape mentioned?
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Alucarda
Towards the end of the film, Ruth's daughter is raped by a boy her age.
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weewooweewoo
A 13 year old girl is raped by another teenager.
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Is someone's mouth covered?
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StaceyWheeler
If you want to count the man who has his mouth stuffed with rags while his leg is being cut off with a saw...
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Dr.Teatime
We see the events leading up to it but the camera cuts away right before the actual assault.
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Bodily Harm
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Is someone crushed to death?
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Alucarda
Several corpses are shown buried underneath debris and rubble after the attack.
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Is someone burned alive?
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Roflpuff098
There are many people seen burning. Lots of scenes of corpses on fire or smoldering as well.
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Is someone buried alive?
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Rspade
Somewhat, a group is caved in and unable to be dug out
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Is there body horror?
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Dr.Teatime
No body horror of the fantasy or sci-fi variety but a lot of gore as bodies are shown, both dead and alive, in various state of injury and decay. Often quite gruesome.
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Is there amputation?
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MarieIsabelleAdora
a mans leg is amputated during the hospital scene
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Does a head get squashed?
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StaceyWheeler
Technically one member of the council is killed when a beam hits him on the head in the council basement.
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Is there a hanging?
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StaceyWheeler
Technically, near the end of the film, some corpses are seen hanging in the city ruins. How they got there isn't known.
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Is there eye mutilation?
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Wiw
When the first blast wave hits, people get glass from shattered windows in their eyes.
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Is there excessive gore?
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Multiple charred corpses are shown, as well as people with severe radiation burns and profusely bleeding wounds.
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Children
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Does a kid die?
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SorcCode
In addition to seeing that a kid has died in the initial blast (his legs are seen in rubble), one childbirth scene appears to end with a mutated and/or stillbirth. The camera never focuses on the newborn.
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Creepy Crawly
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Death
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Does a major character die?
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jic97
Pretty Much everyone dies.
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Disability
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Is the r-slur used?
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Roflpuff098
Only in the context of a warning that radiation can cause physical deformities and mental retardation to fetuses. Not as a slur.
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Drugs/Alcohol
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Family
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Does a parent die?
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Anonymous
Several characters (who happen to be parents) die during the attack and aftermath.
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Is a child's toy destroyed?
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weewooweewoo
A figure of ET is burned by a nuclear bomb.
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Does someone cheat?
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Anonymous
An engaged man is in a car with a woman he had just met in a pub. It's implied they were having sex but you don't see anything
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Fear
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Are there natural bodies of water?
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At the beginning, a pair of young people are parked in a car overlooking the sea.
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Are there mannequins?
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StaceyWheeler
In the behind the scenes sense of things yes - the charred bodies are made by burning mannequins.
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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sarah2moms
Very very graphic, about 1 hour in. When the screen mentions the first symptoms of radiation, skip ahead until the next day.
1 hour and 4 minutes
1 hour and 4 minutes
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Does someone wet/soil themselves?
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A woman is shown soiling herself in the prelude to the bomb
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Is there on-screen pooping?
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Anonymous
There's also a quick clip during the first bomb montage of a man on the toilet.
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Does someone spit?
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Lots of spitting, either from dust/debris in the mouth or vomiting.
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Large-scale Violence
Are there 9/11 depictions?
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This film was made 17 years before 9/11, and no planes are shown crashing into buildings.
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
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weewooweewoo
The police are initially portrayed as useless, then progressively violent and fascistic. Lots of on screen police brutality.
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LGBTQ+
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Loss
Is a priceless artifact destroyed?
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StaceyWheeler
There is a scene where some paintings are being moved down to a cellar though I suspect that those eventually get destroyed in some fashion in the end.
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Medical
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Is there a hospital scene?
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Alucarda
An overrun hospital is shown with several injured and hurt people walking through. The staff is overwhelmed from all the sick and injured people. Infections are shown, blood dripping from a rag being used on a bloody stump is shown, and although it isn't explicitly shown, a man's leg is cut off without anesthesia.
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Does someone have cancer?
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Wiw
Ruth eventually dies from radiation-induced leukaemia.
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Mental Health
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Does someone attempt suicide?
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Is there misophonia?
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CipherPurinina
Protect and Survive's infamous ending jingle.
The HANDEL System, part of the Four-Minute Warning, uses repetitive noises (loud beeping) and phrases ("Attack Warning RED").
Civil defense and aircraft scramble sirens.
An unknown authority, likely the Auxillary Government or remnant RAF, has a loudspeaker repeatedly saying "Return to your homes" and "Go back".
A good portion of the movie is screaming.
The HANDEL System, part of the Four-Minute Warning, uses repetitive noises (loud beeping) and phrases ("Attack Warning RED").
Civil defense and aircraft scramble sirens.
An unknown authority, likely the Auxillary Government or remnant RAF, has a loudspeaker repeatedly saying "Return to your homes" and "Go back".
A good portion of the movie is screaming.
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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weewooweewoo
Not exactly but several character say they wish were dead due to the horrific conditions (post-nuclear war) that they are living with.
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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Alucarda
Some of the side characters are trapped in an underground bunker as the exit has been destroyed.
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mxxowada
towards the end there are 3 hanged bodies, but only the legs are shown. no suicide is shown on screen but it is implied
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Does someone suffer from PTSD?
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lynnredo
Ruth is in shock after the attack and barely speaks for the rest of the film.
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Noxious
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Is there screaming?
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Anonymous
Tons.
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Is there obscene language/gestures?
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BarrydHeil
The only notable one is "they f--king would be" in response to finding a packet of cheese and onion crisps, though this isn't very audible.
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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Lights flash breifly during a short montage of the bomb's explosion
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Paranoia
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Pregnancy
Is a baby stillborn?
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It's heavily implied that the baby born at the end of the film is either stillborn or malformed.
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Does someone miscarry?
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Anonymous
A character is shown delivering a baby at the end. It's unknown what exactly is wrong with it as the film ends with a close up of the new mother's silent scream.
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Is there childbirth?
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Twice near the end
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Are there abortions?
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StaceyWheeler
Only mentions of abortion such as Michael getting told off when he asks what abortion is.
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Prejudice
Are there homophobic slurs?
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Anonymous
No. Though, the term "fag" is British slang for cigarettes, which could be jarring for unsuspecting American viewers.
So around the 1 hr 24 min mark when a man says, "I could murder a fag right now", he is not making a homophobic remark. The context becomes clearer when he then says he always used to have a fag after a meal.
So around the 1 hr 24 min mark when a man says, "I could murder a fag right now", he is not making a homophobic remark. The context becomes clearer when he then says he always used to have a fag after a meal.
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Race
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Relationships
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Religious
Is religion discussed?
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StaceyWheeler
If we want to count the short church scene where Ruth's family were praying.
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Sex
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Sexism
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Sickness
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Does someone have a chronic illness?
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Roflpuff098
Many people suffering the effects of radiation poisoning, cancers, etc.
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Is there dementia/Alzheimer's?
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CipherPurinina
Likely pandemic levels of CTE in-universe, but not depicted in the movie.
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Social
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Is someone homeless?
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Many of the survivors are depicted as being essentially homeless or living in squalor in the aftermath of nuclear war.
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Is existentialism debated?
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CipherPurinina
The movie IS an existentialism.
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Spoiler
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Does it have a sad ending?
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Anonymous
There is no happy ending. The UK - and modern society - has been obliterated.
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Vehicular
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Does a car crash?
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StaceyWheeler
During the RAF Finningley bombing a man crashes his car into a short brick wall after getting blinded by the flash.
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Violence
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Is there blood/gore?
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weewooweewoo
Constant blood, gore and injury. Effects are low-budget but very realistic especially for the era.
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Is there a nuclear explosion?
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Wiw
Threads is a story about nuclear war.
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Is there gun violence?
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SorcCode
An unseen man shoots at teenagers who stole bread from them, killing one.
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