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July 5, 2007 at 5:43 pm

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….I WATCHED IT LAST NITE , IT STILL FREAKS ME OUT …LAST TIME I WATCHED IT WAS AT SCHOOL AGE ABOUT 13 …ANYONE ELSE SEEN IT AND THINK IT IS FREAKY …?
July 5, 2007 at 5:57 pm

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april wrote:

….I WATCHED IT LAST NITE , IT STILL FREAKS ME OUT …LAST TIME I WATCHED IT WAS AT SCHOOL AGE ABOUT 13 …ANYONE ELSE SEEN IT AND THINK IT IS FREAKY …?

yes.

I grew up in an extended family where 98% of us have worked for the NHS at one point or another and I work for a healthcare organisation today so I’m fairly desensetised to tales (and pictures!) of blood and gore – but this was one of the very few films that actually unnerved me.

Apparently the BBC were advised not to repeat it too often as it actually caused the suicide rates in Sheffield to rise every time it was transmitted.

after watching it I always associated the “Words and Pictures” character (Wordy?) with nuclear destruction rather than childhood memories..
July 5, 2007 at 6:30 pm

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i wondered why its not on tv so much heres the film …very grim but worth watchin,not everyones taste but it makes you think ‘that could happen’…
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2023790698427111488
July 5, 2007 at 6:36 pm

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before i watch it, whats it about? theres no point watchin a film with no idea what its about its jus confusin haha
July 5, 2007 at 6:37 pm

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spark_plug wrote:

before i watch it, whats it about? theres no point watchin a film with no idea what its about its jus confusin haha

It is set around 1985 and is about nuclear war between the Soviet Union and the West, leading to atomic bombs being dropped on Sheffield.
July 5, 2007 at 6:40 pm

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that does sound slightly fuckin amazin
July 5, 2007 at 9:29 pm

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scary fuckin film, gave me nightmares
July 6, 2007 at 2:52 am

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Oh well, its only Sheffield…:groucho:

I remember seein it when it was first broadcast, its hard to explain to youngsters how scared we were b4 the Soviet Union collapsed. Think of Al-Qaida, with the US military and nuclear arsenal.

Virtually everyone i knew had a poster of a mushroom cloud on their bedroom walls.

I remember watchin ‘When the wind blows’ bout that time, it was really hard to watch…
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