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Threads Review Part 1

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                                         Threads Everyone who has seen this film remembers it. Set in the town of Sheffield during the Cold war this film gave people nightmares. Not the good kind like vampire women who want to suck more than your blood or some dangerous adventure based on the rules of snooker. No. When people say this film is scary they really mean it. The film opens out with a serious man's voice talking about his pet spider as it spins a web over Sheffield. I personally don't know why the filmmakers included the tired old trope of giant irradiated spiders but they did. I found it confusing as we never see this monster spider again in the film. However, the voice then continues to tell us about Sheffield and makes out we are all connected because someone does some...
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                                       DATELINE 02 JUNE 2022... ...and I will be using that rather contrived titling theme throughout this blog in case you are  wondering. What is this blog all about? Initially I wanted to write about my obsession with nuclear themed media of which covered  all manner of forms. Films, computer games, television shows, public information films,  books, comics, radio, board games and every single aspect of popular media where  this frightening topic pops up. It was going to be predominantly serious with undertones of dark humour and  each blog post would more or less be in a review format. Albeit less formal  if the subject suited it. Then the war in Ukraine happened and it felt like I was living that first part of threads, y'kn...
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