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The Time Machine 1960 and 2002

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 The Time Machine (1960) The Time Machine was released in 1960, directed by George Pal, and starred Rod Taylor as George the time traveler; Alan Young as George's friend David Filby, and also as his son James Filby in the future; and Yvette Mimieux as Weena one of the Eloi from the future.  The film also features the voice of Paul Frees as the voice of the Rings.   The Time Machine was released by MGM, on a budget of around $829,000 and made about $2.6 million in the box office.  Though the film was met with mixed reviews.  Based on the popular 1895 novella by H.G. Wells, this film is about a man named George who theorizes that people can move in the 4th dimension, being the dimension of time.  His friends and collogues think that he is crazy, and that movement in time is impossible.   George though is tired of wars killing peoples, and hopes that by going into the future he can find a time when mankind has gotten beyond wars.   He ...

My Favourite Horror Movies by Decade

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 I recently watched a video with James and Mike from Cinnemassacre, where they discussed their favourite horror films from each decade, from 1920's-2010's, and I started thinking what my own list would look like.   Some of my picks align with them, especially James as it seems he and I have very similar tastes in films.   Like them, the list would change obviously depending on my mood of the day, but I feel that these are the films that are pretty consistently on my top horror film lists.   Keep in mind that if your favourite horror film from each decade isn't on my list, that doesn't mean I don't love that film, and in some decades it was very hard to pick my top choice of the many to choose from.   I will choose two from each decade, and in some decades will include a couple that were honorable mentions, and depending on my mood of the day might even make the actual list.  1920's: The 1920's were not the first decade of horror films, a...