What have you watched on TV?

[Napster]

Don't think I know any of these "films" (and I' consider myself to be a a film buff).Don't uppose you'd consider limiting youselself to one that I could check out?

Just one? Ghost Stories is probably the most accessible. Forgot Possum, which is directed by Garth Holness (Garth Marenghi)

 

[pottster]

The Descent
28 Days later
Ghost Stories
the Woman in Black
Eden Lake
Kill List
Hellraiser
A Field in England

All of which are superb

You missed out tge wicker man!

 

[Napster]

You missed out tge wicker man!

He was asking for other films!

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Call yourself a film buff, but then admit that you're not familiar with the work of renowned Essex-born director Ben Wheatley?!?!

Any relation to Dennis Wheatley?:Horror is not really my thing .(The name is vaguely familiar btw)

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Just one? Ghost Stories is probably the most accessible. Forgot Possum, which is directed by Garth Holness (Garth Marenghi)

Ghost stories seems to be available on Amazon .Not FP.

 

[Supernaut]

Any relation to Dennis Wheatley?

I doubt it.

Horror is not really my thing

Then you're not qualified to be so dismissive of British Horror.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Then you're not qualified to be so dismissive of British Horror.

Possibly .But as they say "I know what I like"

 

[united we stand]

Threads- iplayer

Incredibly harrowing. I never saw it first time around. Apparently hasn’t been played since 1984.
BBC Film on WW3 starting in 1984 and the effect on uk and Sheffield in particular.
Very well done and frankly terrifying.
I had forgotten about the pamphlets on building a bomb shelter under the stairs with doors and mattresses.
Will work better I think for viewers in their mid 50’s and older

 

[Napster]

Threads- iplayer

Incredibly harrowing. I never saw it first time around. Apparently hasn’t been played since 1984.
BBC Film on WW3 starting in 1984 and the effect on uk and Sheffield in particular.
Very well done and frankly terrifying.
I had forgotten about the pamphlets on building a bomb shelter under the stairs with doors and mattresses.
Will work better I think for viewers in their mid 50’s and older

Same I’d never seen it. It was so bleak. Didn’t really work very well as a film though.

 

[CrippsCorner]

Threads- iplayer

Incredibly harrowing. I never saw it first time around. Apparently hasn’t been played since 1984.
BBC Film on WW3 starting in 1984 and the effect on uk and Sheffield in particular.
Very well done and frankly terrifying.
I had forgotten about the pamphlets on building a bomb shelter under the stairs with doors and mattresses.
Will work better I think for viewers in their mid 50’s and older

I read that it was only the fourth time Threads had ever been cast. Don't fancy it myself... life is bleak enough as it is!

 

[blues exile]

Timely showing when the world is now in greater danger than it was back then.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Threads- iplayer

Incredibly harrowing. I never saw it first time around. Apparently hasn’t been played since 1984.
BBC Film on WW3 starting in 1984 and the effect on uk and Sheffield in particular.
Very well done and frankly terrifying.
I had forgotten about the pamphlets on building a bomb shelter under the stairs with doors and mattresses.
Will work better I think for viewers in their mid 50’s and older

Older Zoners will perhaps remember Peter Watkin's fine The war Game (from the 60's, first banned on the Beeb,Which I saw in the 70's ,while a student in Brum. Protect and Survive was the name of that HMG pamphlet I remember it well!

 

[blues exile]

Older Zoners will perhaps remember Peter Watkin's fine The war Game (from the 60's, first banned on the Beeb,Which I saw in the 70's ,while a student in Brum. Protect and Survive was the name of that HMG pamphlet I remember it well!

How hopelessly ill prepared for a nuclear war the UK was then. Still, no doubt the elite would have been ok, same as now.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Same I’d never seen it. It was so bleak. Didn’t really work very well as a film though.

It was of course a made for TV film like Peter Watkins' War game.

 

[Napster]

It was of course a made for TV film like Peter Watkins' War game.

Just because it was made for TV doesn’t mean it escapes valid criticism. Scum works perfectly well

 

[united we stand]

Older Zoners will perhaps remember Peter Watkin's fine The war Game (from the 60's, first banned on the Beeb,Which I saw in the 70's ,while a student in Brum. Protect and Survive was the name of that HMG pamphlet I remember it well!

Protect and survive- that’s it - thank you

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Just because it was made for TV doesn’t mean it escapes valid criticism. Scum works perfectly well

Agreed.

 

[Target man]

If you don't mind a bit of blood and violence, then Gangs of London on Netflix is a good watch. I've only seen the first episode, but great plot and action. Fight scene with the guy in the underpants and wellies.... brutal!!!

 

[cerbera45]

Sweetpea starring Ella Purnell as the lead character Rhiannon. I saw the second episode last night and wow what a finish. I shall be tuning in to episode three next week for sure.

 

[cerbera45]

Timely showing when the world is now in greater danger than it was back then.

1962 was still the closest (to nuclear conflict) with US planes sitting on the tarmac engines running with their doomsday payloads aboard :-/