People tend to be drawn to their fears as a way of trying to rationalize them, leading to the boom in the alien invasion films during this time period. RT JimmySecUK: A reminder that you dont get to invade someones country and then dictate the terms under which they can resist your invasion. To moviegoers in the '50s, an invasion by space aliens like in Invaders from Mars, It Came from Outer Space, or the anti-communist The Day the Earth Stood Still, were as real of a possibility as an invasion by the Russians. The real life fears were perfect tools for filmmakers in the '40s and '50s the fear of an invasion of the adversary was as real as it would ever be up to that point. There was growing tension as the two global powers engaged in this new world arms race. The fear of Russia, commonly known as The Red Scare, would cause paranoia to run rampant in the U.S., with schools even holding air raid drills teaching children to duck-and-cover under their desks in case of an atomic bomb attack by Russia, a surefire tactic to save them from a nuclear blast. The nuclear age was alive and well in the late '40s and '50s as a newly nuclear Russia and the United States would live in fear of one another for the following four decades. Other movies such as Creature from the Black Lagoon and The Mole People, while not specifically creatures born from a nuclear event, still carry with them the gravitas of an unknown creature lurking in the shadows of this new world.Ĭold War Paranoia/Invasion of the AdversaryĪlong with the nuclear age, the late 40s brought with it a Cold War that would last for the next forty-four years as the United States and Russia would wage geopolitical war against one another without a single shot being fired. This terrifying concept then peaks the interest of a moviegoer that may not have otherwise been down to see these types of movies in the '40s and '50s. Uri Geller believes that the sighting of UFOs by nuclear facilities on Earth are aliens testing technology on Earth having predicted that an invasion is imminent. They may not have been the scariest movie aliens, but the monsters in these films now carried a weight with them that in this new nuclear age and a belief that a creature like Godzilla or The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms could actually exist. This new reality was ripe for filmmakers in the science fiction genre. The events at Nagasaki and Hiroshima in August 1945 brought to life a concept only dreamed about in fiction. It was the defeat of the Japanese at the hands of the Atomic Bomb that plunged the world into the nuclear age. Hitler and the Nazis were defeated in 1945 and their Japanese allies soon thereafter. The 1940s brought with it extreme lows and extreme highs the world over.
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