I never want to see this film ever again. It's not that it was bad, just the opposite, it was too effective. Being the British version of The Day After this was the better of the two films. What it lacks in scale, stars, and special effects, it makes up for in the most nightmarish images I've seen outside of a horror film. It actually benefits from having a cast that is unknown-at least here in America ,and it grounds the film in a reality that gets increasingly unbearable as the film progresses. It's focus is more on the breakdown of services once the nuclear attacks happen and whatever plans the government had to confront such an event falls apart quickly. I had to watch the film in increments of about thirty minutes or so and at times I seriously doubted that I wanted to finish it. It is truly terrifying. It's not a Mad Max post apocalyptic scenario but a culture hurled back into a primitive form of living as the effects of the radiation and the nuclear winter makes any attempts to harvest crops impossible. It days for these images to finally fade from my mind and I have absolutely no desire to revisit them.
