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The Day After - 1983
Posted on 7/12/20 at 3:39 pm
Posted on 7/12/20 at 3:39 pm
I was 4 when this movie was on TV, but I vaguely remembered bits as pieces of it. I found it on YouTube and watched it again.
Watching it in hindsight, it seems to be an anti-Reagan scare tactic mixed in with low budget horror film.
Those of you who watched it live, what was your initial reaction?
Watching it in hindsight, it seems to be an anti-Reagan scare tactic mixed in with low budget horror film.
Those of you who watched it live, what was your initial reaction?
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Posted on 7/12/20 at 3:45 pm to Dawgwithnoname
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Watching it in hindsight, it seems to be an anti-Reagan scare tactic mixed in with low budget horror film
Ding!
And Special Bulletin was more riveting.
Posted on 7/12/20 at 3:46 pm to Dawgwithnoname
Threads laughs at The Day After
Posted on 7/12/20 at 3:53 pm to Dawgwithnoname
I remember it well...I was 13...after the Soviet Union fell it was revealed how close we actually came to nuclear war.
Thankfully Stanislav Petrov, a lieutenant colonel in the Soviet Air Defense Force remained calmed and used rational thought instead of panicking when he suspected their radar was malfunctioning (again) when it detected missiles that turned out to be a rare alignment of sunlight on high altitude clouds...
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Thankfully Stanislav Petrov, a lieutenant colonel in the Soviet Air Defense Force remained calmed and used rational thought instead of panicking when he suspected their radar was malfunctioning (again) when it detected missiles that turned out to be a rare alignment of sunlight on high altitude clouds...
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Posted on 7/12/20 at 4:01 pm to Dawgwithnoname
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The Day After - 1983
I was 17 years old
Posted on 7/12/20 at 4:05 pm to Dawgwithnoname
I remember another one, it was a short show, perhaps 30 minutes long. The dad was a prepped, with a fallout shelter and lived near an air force base. Tensions were high and a nuke went off. He got in the bunker but the family was away from home. Perhaps a neighbor was in the bunker with him. Months later he heard noises outside and thought it was the Soviet’s, as food stocks dwendled the neighbor left and told the guy in the bunker everything was pitch black outside. At the end of the show it was revealed the noise was a dome, the explosion was from a US nuke at the base.
Posted on 7/12/20 at 4:07 pm to Dawgwithnoname
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Watching it in hindsight, it seems to be an anti-Reagan scare tactic mixed in with low budget horror film.
For the original TV broadcast, the original POTUS radio message (post-nuke) was designed to sound like Reagan, this was edited to be more generic for the VHS/DVD release.
Posted on 7/12/20 at 4:08 pm to Thunder
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The Day After - 1983
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I was 17 years old
Me too.
It was on ABC. Two-parter as I recall. They made a huge deal of it.
Posted on 7/12/20 at 4:12 pm to wickowick
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I remember another one, it was a short show, perhaps 30 minutes long. The dad was a prepped, with a fallout shelter and lived near an air force base. Tensions were high and a nuke went off. He got in the bunker but the family was away from home. Perhaps a neighbor was in the bunker with him. Months later he heard noises outside and thought it was the Soviet’s, as food stocks dwendled the neighbor left and told the guy in the bunker everything was pitch black outside. At the end of the show it was revealed the noise was a dome, the explosion was from a US nuke at the base.
“Shelter Skelter”. An episode of the 80’s version of The Twilight Zone.
Posted on 7/12/20 at 4:13 pm to wickowick
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I remember another one, it was a short show, perhaps 30 minutes long. The dad was a prepped, with a fallout shelter and lived near an air force base. Tensions were high and a nuke went off. He got in the bunker but the family was away from home. Perhaps a neighbor was in the bunker with him. Months later he heard noises outside and thought it was the Soviet’s, as food stocks dwendled the neighbor left and told the guy in the bunker everything was pitch black outside. At the end of the show it was revealed the noise was a dome, the explosion was from a US nuke at the base.
That was a Twilight Zone episode called Skelter Shelter...
Posted on 7/12/20 at 4:14 pm to LSURulzSEC
As a young kid, it stuck with me
Posted on 7/12/20 at 4:15 pm to Dawgwithnoname
I was 11.
I stared out the window at night every time I heard a jet go over...for the next 5 years.
I stared out the window at night every time I heard a jet go over...for the next 5 years.
This post was edited on 7/12/20 at 4:16 pm
Posted on 7/12/20 at 4:23 pm to Dawgwithnoname
I was only 4 years old when it originally aired. I don’t remember the original broadcast, but did it become a yearly thing afterward because I can remember watching it a couple of times on prime time tv in the late 80’s.
Testament is a superior movie in my opinion.
Testament is a superior movie in my opinion.
This post was edited on 7/12/20 at 4:25 pm
Posted on 7/12/20 at 4:30 pm to Thunder
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I was 17 years old
Me too.
Posted on 7/12/20 at 4:35 pm to Dawgwithnoname
Posted on 7/12/20 at 4:35 pm to Dawgwithnoname
Your parents let you watch it when you were 4 years old?
Posted on 7/12/20 at 4:43 pm to Dawgwithnoname
I was twenty when that came out and while it was somewhat anti-Reagan it was more along the lines of the "better red than dead" bullshite that the left wing was pushing during that time. The pussies wanted us to surrender to Russia because they were scared of a nuclear war. I guess that's one of the differences with liberals now, currently they want us to surrender to communism not because of nuclear war but just because they like communism. Most likely they always have really
Posted on 7/12/20 at 4:44 pm to OverseasBengal
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Most likely they always have really
Yep
Posted on 7/12/20 at 4:48 pm to L1C4
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Your parents let you watch it when you were 4 years old?
One TV, 4 channels. I was the remote. I'm sure im not the only one with that story.
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