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Direction
Jackson's cold documentary eye makes fiction feel like verified history.
Practical Effects
Pre-CGI devastation that still out-horrors modern blockbuster destruction.
Writing
Barry Hines's script: ordinary people, zero heroics, maximum devastation.

Director
Mick Jackson
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