ONE MORLOCK FOR THE ROAD...

RIP to Rod Taylor, who starred in The Time Machine and The Birds…

…and more recently, in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, played the small role of Winston Churchill…

…and who passed on late last week. Since the Morlocks from The Time Machine already served as a Monster-of-the-Week a while back…

Monster-of-the-Week: …this week let’s give the nod to the “Starving Morlock” movers who haunt Sheldon’s dreams in The Big Bang Theory…

MORLOCKED AND LOADED

TCM is showing the 1960 George Pal favorite The Time Machine tomorrow at 5 p.m. (Phoenix time), so…

Monster-of-the-Week: …let’s give the nod to any specimen of those futuristic working stiffs the Morlocks, the subterranean descendents, in the vision of H. G. Wells, of today’s wage slaves, now devolved into subhuman bestiality, living to serve, but also to dine upon, those future one-percenters the Eloi. Talk about “Eat the Rich.”

Here’s one from the film, contrasted with Yvette Mimieux for maximum hideousness: