By the 1960s, the Cold War had inspired countless B-movies and creature features that embodied the Western fear of a looming threat from the East.
Some films such as Invasion of the Body Snatchers and Panic in Year Zero more obviously addressed the fear of the times, marketing their films as “doubly shocking because it can happen to you!” Others, such as Astro Zombies and Day of the Triffids leaned further into the bizarre otherworldly ideas this fear gave way to.
In 1962, director David Bradley (not the same David Bradley who played Filch in Harry Potter) shot a World War 3 movie called The Return of Mr.
H.
The H stood for Hitler, and the film would soon become one of the most obscure running jokes in the long-running TV sitcom The Simpsons.
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