History YMMV / WhenTheWindBlows

** Roger Waters and his solo band did the remaining soundtrack, and there are two vocal songs on it, Towers Of Faith and Folding Flags, both of which are extremely haunting.

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** {{Squick}}: There's a brief moment in the movie where Hilda seems to imagine herself as a fairy with butterfly wings. This wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't for the fact that she's naked in this sequence.
** After the blast, the Bloggs comment on a smell that's like roast meat, implied to be the smell of ''roast people''.

* ''ComicBook/WhenTheWindBlows'': In this 1982 graphic novel -- as well as its subsequent animated [[WesternAnimation/WhenTheWindBlows film adaptation]] -- the Bloggs, James (or Jim) and Hilda respectively -- are an elderly couple living in Sussex, England. Having survived two world wars, the couple takes the news of an impending strike lightly, with James wasting no time constructing a crude bomb shelter. When the bomb is dropped onto Sussex, wiping out nearly everything in its path, the Bloggs survive and attempt to rebuild, unknowingly contracting radiation sickness for their efforts. Even as their health began to decline and the rations were becoming scarce, the Bloggs still firmly believed that their government would save them only to then succumb to despair as the acknowledgement of their oncoming deaths became evident. From their unwavering faith in the [[PowersThatBe "Powers that Be"]] to their tragic ends, the Bloggs stand as a cautionary tale of the consequences a nuclear war has on society.

** It can even be found in middle school libraries, of all places.
* TheWoobie - Both Jim and Hilda Bloggs, though Hilda is more of a woobie than her husband due to [[spoiler:coming down with radiation sickness first]].

* {{Squick}}: There's a brief moment in the movie where Hilda seems to imagine herself as a fairy with butterfly wings. This wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't for the fact that she's naked in this sequence.

** This American troper discovered it through his Middle School library, of all places.

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* [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic Crowning Music of Awesome]]: The opening theme is by David Bowie, for crying out loud!

* {{Anvilicious}} to some, but mostly SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped.

* AnimationAgeGhetto

* [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic Crowning Music of Awesome]] - The opening theme is by David Bowie, for crying out loud!

* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: Much like ''Film/{{Threads}}'', this film points out that there is no way to survive a nuclear war.

* FridgeHorror - The bags [[spoiler:are so the government will have an easier time collecting the bodies. It's rendered moot, since everyone's implied to be dead.]]

** This book was quite deliberately on the Queensland primary school curriculum at least ten years ago, as part of some vital anvil dropping.[[note]]While Australia doesn't even have nuclear ''power'', they export a lot of uranium for other countries to do nuclear stuff that may or may not include bombs. Just imagine their maniacal laughter the next time you play ''VideoGame/DEFCON'' - they've made the winning move.[[/note]]

** This book was quite deliberately on the Queensland primary school curriculum at least ten years ago, as part of some vital anvil dropping.[[note]]While Australia doesn't even have nuclear ''power'', they export a lot of uranium for other countries to do nuclear stuff that may or may not include bombs. Just imagine their maniacal laughter the next time you play DEFCON - they've made the winning move.[[/note]]

* NeedsMoreLove - Not so much in Europe and Japan, but the movie (and the book) isn't so much as well known in North America.

!!WhenTheWindBlows

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome - The opening theme is by David Bowie, for crying out loud!

* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: Much like {{Threads}}, this film points out that there is no way to survive a nuclear war.

* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: Much like Film/ {{Threads}}, this film points out that there is no way to survive a nuclear war.

* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: Much like Film/Threads, this film points out that there is no way to survive a nuclear war.

** Roger Waters and his solo band did the remaining soundtrack, and there are two vocal songs on it, Towers Of Faith and Folding Flags, both of which are extremely haunting.

** This book was quite deliberately on the Queensland primary school curriculum at least ten years ago, as part of some vital anvil dropping.[[hottip:*:While Australia doesn't even have nuclear ''power'', they export a lot of uranium for other countries to do nuclear stuff that may or may not include bombs. Just imagine their maniacal laughter the next time you play DEFCON - they've made the winning move.]]

* NightmareFuel 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.
** Pretty much everything from that point on is nightmare fuel to a greater or lesser extent.
*** 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.
* TearJerker - Usually around the point [[spoiler: Hilda's hair starts falling out, until the end]].
** Actually, anything ''near'' the end of the story is considered a possible tearjerker - if you think about the possible consequenses for a bit.

* NightmareFuel

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel

** Roger Waters and his solo band did the remaining soundtrack, and there are two vocal songs on it, Towers Of Faith and Folding Flags, both of which are extremely haunting.

** This troper started sobbing a little when she remembers how oblivious and sweet-natured they are.

** This troper started sobbing a little when she remembers that they are innocent, oblivious people who would sadly die at the end.

* BetterThanItSounds