> From: Gary Nunn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> I am sitting here watching "The Day After" on the Sci-Fi
> channel and it has
> occurred to me that watching this is something like the
> morbid inability to
> stare at an accident as you drive by. I suppose it is a
> mortality thing.
>
> I remember the first time I watched this show. I was 18 and
> it scared me to
> death. I had nightmares for a week.
>
I watched "The Day After" when it was first broadcast and have not seen it
since. Let's see, I would have been 17 or so at the time. I remember it
scaring the h*ll out of me, up to a point. I thought the events leading up
to the attack and the immediate aftermath to be the most chilling and the
most plausible. IIRC, the events after the attack were a bit silly.
The nuclear attack movie that had the biggest affect on me was "Testament"
which showed the aftermath of a nuclear attack in an incredibly chilling
way. As with "The Day After" I've only watched it once and I but with
"Testament" I still can clearly remember certain scenes.
- John
