The Day After( the old movie)

[Mad4Mickey]

Ok so this is on right now on SCi Fi

Does anyone else remember watching this in 1983 and it scaring the life out of you ? I remember being teenager and being freaked out that the Russians would bomb us .

I just had my son watching this with me and he is 17 allhe said was " Lord Mom why would this scare you ?"

Oh the times they are a changing LOL

 

[Jennyfyar]

I remember that I was not allowed to watch it (I was only 11). I saw bits and pieces that scared me!

 

[SunFloridaDisney]

I do remember watching it, but I'm sure now it would look way different. Think how different the world is than back then too.

 

[Mad4Mickey]

I was 15 and I was not going to watch it but my Grandmother left to go to dinner and I watched it . It scared me to death I remember being so freaked out I pretended to be sick so I didnt have to go to school because I knew kids who saw it would be talking about it.

Oh it was bad back then oh so bad

 

[Virgo10]

We watched it here too. I'm seen it a million times but my DH said he'd never seen it.

A year after TDA was on I watch a similar movie on PBS called Threads. It made TDA look like a Disney film. An amazing docu/drama with an ending that I will never ever forget. Threads is very hard to find now but I have seen copies on Ebay.

On my list of scariest films ever, Threads is right up there near the top.

 

[Tiggeroo]

it was required watching for some class in school. I remember it being all everybody was talking about. Whenever I see a movie with a similar name I get freaked out. So yep it scared the @#$%% out of me.

 

[snowball22]

I was 18 when I saw it the first time. It scared me to death the first time I watched it. I watched it again last night. Did they eliminate the scenes on the freeway where the bodies instantly burned, turned into skeletons and vanished during the "flash"? I loved the statement at the end. I just pray that we never see anything like that during our lifetime but with Iran and North Korea stirring the pot, this could very well be a reality.

 

[In a hurry]

Scared the crap out of me! I still won't watch anything like it!

 

[Saphire]

On my list of scariest films ever, Threads is right up there near the top.

I agree, that was a very disturbing movie. There were a few that came out at the same time, remember Testament? These movies terrified me and I have such difficulty watching them, because it CAN happen.

 

[joshsmom]

I was 13 when I first saw it (and I haven't seen it since). I was terrified. Probably today it would look "hokey", but it definitely got its point across then!

 

[Sonya]

Iremember catching bits and pieces. My mom wouldn't let me watch it. I was terrified! Didn't it take place in KC? I seem to remember that and being very afraid.

 

[Virgo10]

I agree, that was a very disturbing movie. There were a few that came out at the same time, remember Testament? These movies terrified me and I have such difficulty watching them, because it CAN happen.

Testament was a thoughtful film but still pretty vanilla in comparison to Threads. However, it was still more powerful than TDA.

And, yes, the did take out a few things. The people vaporizing was missing as was the scene where the young boy looks directly into the explosion flash. Kinda cracks me up that a cable station with all the blood and gore on it, omitted two scenes like that.

 

[CathrynRose]

YES! Oh Good LORD - that movie scared me.... I was 10!!!

I remember asking my mom - if a nuclear bomb hit Chicago, would we die??? (and anyone familiar with Chicago-area, we lived in Naperville... like 20 minutes TOPS to the city)

And she looks at me, and answers "Noooo! No way - we're waaaay too far!"

She must've seen the ABSOLUTE FEAR in my face, when I asked her! She was being a total Mom - - cuz if one of those hit Chicago we all would have been microwaved instantly!!!

She even went so far as to mention how much canned food we already had, in case something like that happened. How we'd be fine for awhile!

 

[MScott1851]

Oh, GAWD! This movie STILL scares me!

I remember being petrified of it when I was younger.

 

[LoraJ]

That movie scared the heck out of me. I was so relieved when Reagan was no longer president since they used "his voice" addressing the nation in the movie. I had nightmares about that movie and his voice throughout his presidency.

 

[Microcell]

Iremember catching bits and pieces. My mom wouldn't let me watch it. I was terrified! Didn't it take place in KC? I seem to remember that and being very afraid.

Lawrrence and Kansas City. The gym they are in was Hoch Auditorium at the University of Kansas. They showed it destroyed in the movie. The Auditorium burned down in 1991 after being struck by lightning when I was in college. My roomate and I were watching that movie two days before Hoch burned. We went to campus to survey the fire damage and thought about the Day After. Spooked us waaaaaayyyyy out! What was interesting about the fire was that it was not raining and lightning struck it.

I think the scenes done in Kansas City were near the Plaza, like on Ward Parkway.

 

[hiwaygal]

I was a junior in high school when this came out (dating myself ) and it scared me to death!

I went to school about 20 miles from home (bussing) and the thought of one of those bombs going off while I was at school...knowing I wouldn't have time to get home to say good-bye to my family...ugh...

The fear of nuclear war (and nuclear winter) scared me for YEARS. I did lots of papers on it in college because I *had* to know what would happen.

I'm not sure something like that would ever really happen (I would hope the world is smart enough NOT to do something like that again) but for now I'm trying to be optimistic.

 

[buddy&wooz]

I was in college (studying TV production) and The Day After was an assignment. It freaked me out but it helped that I was able to go to class the next day and pick it apart as a TV movie rather than really think about the subject matter.

Anyone remember Special Bulletin? It was done like a live news broadcast as terrorists had a nuclear bomb in a boat in a major harbor (Baltimore? Maybe Charleston).

I taped Testament when it was on PBS and never got the nerve up to watch it, I still have the tape somewhere 20 years later!

 

[Virgo10]

Anyone remember Special Bulletin? It was done like a live news broadcast as terrorists had a nuclear bomb in a boat in a major harbor (Baltimore? Maybe Charleston).

OMG! I had forgotten about that one. Now that was one scary movie. The ending got me when the reporter was standing there saying something like, am I dying now? Next to Threads, that one was the best of this genre.

 

[Towncrier]

Anyone remember Special Bulletin? It was done like a live news broadcast as terrorists had a nuclear bomb in a boat in a major harbor (Baltimore? Maybe Charleston).

I remember that show. The terrorists were scientists who had no intention of setting off the bomb. They were trying to stop the spread of nuclear weapons. I seem to recall the S.W.A.T. team coming in and killing the so called terrorists and then accidentally setting off the bomb while trying to defuse it.