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Hey, welcome to Weird House Cinema. This is Rob Lamb.

And this is Joe McCormick. And today on Weird House Cinema, we're going to be talking about the 1960 film adaptation of The Time Machine, based on the novel by H.G. Wells, directed by George Powell, starring Rod Taylor and Yvette Mew.

We've gotten many requests to cover this on the show before.

I think it came up recently, maybe in the last listener mail episode or the one before that.

Somebody was asking us to do The Time Machine, either this one or I think also that there was one in the early 2000s that is famous or infamous.

It has Guy Pearce, I think, and has a lot of weird changes to the story.

Yeah, there are some definitely weird changes made to it.

We'll come back to the 2002 Time Machine.

I have not watched it since it originally came out, but I remember enjoying it.

Yeah.

As Jeremy Irons has something called an Uber Morlock. Yeah, he's the Morlock that can it. Yeah. As Jeremy Irons says, something called an Uber Morlock.

Yeah, he's the Morlock we can talk.

Yeah.

Great.

I've never seen it, but I'd be willing to explore.

But this version of the time machine is so, I just want to put my cards on the table at the

beginning and say, it is so great.

We can discuss a few drawbacks to it, but overall, this is just like great mid-century cinema, an amazing visual spectacle. It's got excellent time lapse and stop motion effects. It has that wonderful film grain and color palette that it's like what people have in mind when they think about the gorgeous color films of the mid-century.

Absolutely. It's gorgeous to look at the effects, which were Academy Award winners at the time, still hold up really well and are a lot of fun to watch. The performances are effective, but it's just a

fun ride. It just, and it does a great, great job. There's not a dull moment. They do a great

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