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 58 potentially triggering events.
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Anonymous
Dead dogs and cats are shown, though their deaths happen off-screen.
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Is there on-screen pooping?
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StaceyWheeler
Ruth's grandma soils herself offscreen
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Abandonment
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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Abuse
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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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BugsAndWombats
A kitten is shown dying from the radiation. It's gruesome and simply awful.
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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
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weewooweewoo
A 13 year old girl is raped by another teenager.
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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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Death
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Does a major character die?
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jic97
Pretty Much everyone dies.
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Disability
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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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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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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Fear
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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 wet/soil themselves?
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A woman is shown soiling herself in the prelude to the bomb
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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 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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Medical
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Is there a hospital scene?
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At the end, a pregnant teenaged girl enters a makeshift hospital and gives birth to a presumably disfigured or stillborn child.
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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
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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Does someone attempt suicide?
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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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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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Noxious
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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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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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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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Prejudice
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Relationships
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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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Social
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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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
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
Is there a nuclear explosion?
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Wiw
Threads is a story about nuclear war.
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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 gun violence?
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SorcCode
An unseen man shoots at teenagers who stole bread from them, killing one.
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