100 million people tuned in to experience 1983's The Day After and its unflinching, gritty depiction of a nuclear exchange and lingering effect on a civilian population. Cited by many as the scariest film they have ever seen, does this vision of nuclear horror still resonate 42 years later? Jason and Brendan hangout in a lead-lined room and talk it out!
Next week: it's the end of the world again.
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The Day After stars Jason Robards, John Cullum, Bibi Besch, Georgann Johnson, JoBeth Williams, John Lithgow, Amy Madigan, Stephen Furst, Arliss Howard and Steve Guttenberg; directed by Nicholas Meyer.
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