History NightmareFuel / WhenTheWindBlows

* Hilda hears a dog howling in the distance, and thinks that it just wants to be fed. In reality, it's probably howling in pain as it dies of radiation sickness.

'''Jim:''' Well...what ''are'' we going to drink?! Eh?! '''''EH?!''''' ''(grabs and shakes Hilda)'' What '''''ARE WE GOING TO DRINK, FOR GOD'S SAKE!?'''''

* The end of the credits where it pans over the dedication to the children born to the crew during the development of the film (and their futures), there is a snippet of Morse Code being played. This code stands for '''M.A.D.'''- or, ''Mutual Assured Destruction'', which means there's even MORE bombs to come. The war isn’t over - it’s only just begun.

* The end of the credits where it pans over the dedication to the children born to the crew during the development of the film (and their futures), there is a type of Morse Code being played. This code stands for '''M.A.D.'''- or, ''Mutual Assured Destruction'', which means there's even MORE bombs to come, potentially even war.

It's a cartoon about a very nice retired couple who could be your grandparents, pootling along with life while the doomsday clock reaches midnight, trusting in the advice of the government to survive WorldWarIII by stockpiling peanut butter and hiding in the cellar until civic order is restored. Then they survive the bomb and are heartbreakingly oblivious to their slow grim fate. As if all that isn't bad enough, it's drawn in the same style as the charming and happy Christmas institution ''ComicBook/TheSnowman''. Imagine a much-loved animation that the whole family can gather round at the holidays, like ''How The Grinch Stole Christmas'' or ''The Muppet Christmas Carol''. Now imagine those characters, or ones who conceivably live in the same world, slowing dying of radiation poisoning with no-one coming to help because there's no-one else left alive.

* The end of the credits where it pans over the dedication to the children born to the crew during the development of the film (and their futures), there is a type of Morse Code being played. This code stands for [[spoiler: '''M.A.D.'''- or, ''Mutual Assured Destruction'', which means there's even MORE bombs to come, potentially even war]].

--> '''Jim:''' ''[weakly]'' Put the kettle on, will you, ducks?\\

** In the final and most crushing exsmple, their cuteness and innocence as Hilda says she feels like a bunch of potatoes as she moves around in her paper bag is ''absolutely'' heart breaking.

* While the movie does depict the effects of radiation poisoning quite well (showing that the Blogsses become very thin, develop sores on their body and Hilda losing her hair), the comic is far more chilling. The two of them basically lose all the colour in their skin, become visibly ill almost right from the start and Jim even starts bleeding from his mouth while singing a song trying to cheer Hilda up.

** As they're speaking, the movie pans to the utter devastation that's being wrought: houses crumbling, trees withered, animals dying, outlines of what look to be dead bodies. Unlike the comics where it's centered on the Bloggses, this movie spells it out that ''everyone and everything has been annihilated.''

* The end of the credits where it pans over the dedication to the children born to the crew during the development of the film (and their futures), there is a type of Morse Code being played. This code stands for [[spoiler: '''M.A.D.'''- or, ''Mutually Assured Destruction'']].

'''Jim:''' Well...what ''are'' we going to drink?! Eh?! '''''EH?!''''' ''(grabs and shakes Hilda)'' What '''''ARE WE GOIN TO DRINK, FOR GOD'S SAKE!?'''''

* While the movie does depict the effects of radiation poisoning quite well (showing that the Blogsses become very thin, develop sores on their body and Hilda losing her hair), the comic is far more chilling. The two of them basically lose all the colour in their skin, become visibly ill almost right from the start and Jim even starts bleeding from his mouth while singing a song trying to cheer Hilda up.

* The end of the credits where it pans over the dedication to the children born to the crew during the development of the film (and their futures), there is a type of Morse Code being played. This code stands for [[spoiler: '''M.A.D.'''- or, ''Mutually Assured Destruction'']].

* The fact that [[WorldWarIII the]] [[MutuallyAssuredDestruction events]] [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt depicted]] in this film are still a very real possibility, even to this day, thanks to renewed Russian, Chinese, Iranian, and North Korean aggression.

* [[DerangedAnimation The animation]] used to depict the bombing- showing people being vaporised by the heat and shockwave of the blast, sheep tossed across the countryside like balls of cotton wool, a train blown off the tracks, crashing over the side of a bridge and into the river it's crossing and houses blown apart- all to an utterly chilling and violent musical score underlying it.

* The fact that [[WorldWarIII the]] [[MutuallyAssuredDestruction events]] [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt depicted]] in this film are still a very real possibility, even to this day.

* When the Bloggses think they can smell roast pork, it's heavily implied to actually be the seared flesh of dead people, cooked by the heat of the blast.

* The animation used to depict the bombing, showing people blown apart, sheep tossed across the countryside like balls of cotton wool, a train blown off the tracks and into the river it's crossing, houses blown over, all to an utterly chilling and violent musical score underlying it.

* The fact that this film is a very real possibility.
* The end of the credits where it pans over the dedication to the children born to the crew during the development of the film (and their futures), there is a type of Morse Code being played. This code stands for Mutually Assured Destruction.

* The fact that this film is a very real possibility.