The Day After
| release date | November 20 1983 |
| studio | Buena Vista |
| director | Nicholas Meyer |
| writer | Edward Hume |
| starring | John Lithgow, Jason Robards, Jobeth Williams, Steven Guttenberg |
| tagline | The day before. The day of. The Day After |
| site | imdb.com/title/tt0085404 |
2 Comments
As the BD reviewer stated, the effects are quite bad, but the story is good.
I was in high school back when this film struck television, and it is not a horror film by any means. What it is successful at is horrifying your mind with the realistic reflection of what a nuclear war would look like from the eyes of the everyday citizen, a guillotine that hangs over the head of every American. Its not scary per say, the effects are laughable, the acting drawn out, but if you match this film with the real life awareness of the threat that this can happen at any given moment, the notion is horrifying enough. I once dreamed as a result of this movie, and a nuke went off a few miles away. My whole body disintegrated just like the people do in this film. I felt every molecule in my being vibrate. It was scary to die that way, so sudden and so absolute. So something sat in my psyche after watching it. I agree that it does deserve its respects among the horror community.
talk about a depressing movie. not scary in any way. the effx are terrible. but the story is good, and something about it gets into your mind so that it’s easy to put yourself in theie shoes. watch it, but only with an OPEN mind.
This movie is pretty good.