History NightmareFuel / TheTimeMachine

* The Grey Man, a chapter not included in many modern copies of the book, presents a disturbing leap forward from the future of the Morlocks and Eloi. The Time Traveler arrives on a sparse field full of gray rabbit-like creatures. Curious, he picks up a rock and stuns one to get a closer look. What he finds are signs of the creature's ancestry: a round head with forward-facing eyes and five digits on each foot. Before he can get a closer look, another animal- a giant centipede-like creature- emerges and sends the rabbit-like creatures skittering off. The Time Traveler speculates that, with the extinction of most other forms of life, perhaps humanity gradually evolved to fill the vacant niches. ''This is the final fate of mankind.''

* The Grey Man, a chapter not included in many modern copies of the book, presents a disturbing leap forward from the future of the Morlocks and Eloi. The Time Traveler arrives on a sparse field full of gray rabbit-like creatures. Curious, he picks up a rock and stuns one to get a closer look. What he finds are signs of the creature's ancestry: [[UncannyValley a round head with forward-facing eyes and five digits on each foot.]] Before he can get a closer look, another animal- a giant centipede-like creature- emerges and sends the rabbit-like creatures skittering off. The Time Traveler speculates that, with the extinction of most other forms of life, perhaps humanity gradually evolved to fill the vacant niches. ''This is the final fate of mankind.''

* TheReveal: Morlocks are not the castaway mutants and Eloi are not the rulers of a surface Utopia. Morlocks feed and tend to the childlike, innocent Eloi so that they can sneak into their houses at night, take them down to their tunnels, and eat them alive. ''Eloi are LIVESTOCK.''

* Perhaps the most scary part about the Morlocks are just how much more human they seem compared to the Eloi. So what does that say about ''us?''

** Said something in the shadows is a hopping, approximately football-sized object that utterly terrifies the Time Traveller. Scholars who are familiar with H.G. Wells's satirical idea of the future humans as nothing but overgrown brains with some kind of manipulatory organ attached recognise this as the exact opposite: a ravenous stomach without a brain.

** The fate of Weena.

* The Grey Man, a chapter not included in many modern copies of the book, presents a disturbing leap forward from the future of the Morlocks and Eloi. The Time Traveler arrives on a sparse field full of gray rabbit-like creatures. Curious, he picks up a rock and stuns one to get a closer look. What he finds are signs of the creature's ancestry: [[UncannyValley a round head with forward-facing eyes and five digits on each foot.]] Before he can get a closer look, another animal- a giant centipede-like creature- emerges and sends the rabbit-like creatures skittering off. The Time Traveler speculates that, with the extinction of most other forms of life, perhaps humanity gradually evolved to fill the niches left behind as the world slowly decayed.

* Said something in the shadows is a hopping, approximately football-sized object that utterly terrifies the Time Traveller. Scholars who are familiar with H.G. Wells's satirical idea of the future humans as nothing but overgrown brains with some kind of manipulatory organ attached recognise this as the exact opposite: a ravenous stomach without a brain.
* The fate of Weena.

* The Morlocks feed and tend to the childlike, innocent Eloi so that they can sneak into their houses at night, take them down to their tunnels, and eat them alive.

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Spoilers for both the film and the book abound below.

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* The movie had quite a bit too. The aforementioned nuclear war is rather jarring (somehow the [[SpecialEffectsFailure primitive effects]] make it worse in an UncannyValley way), plus [[spoiler: at the end we're treated to a sped up scene of a Morlock decaying ''rapidly'']].
* The JumpScare when we first see the Morlocks has chilled the blood of more than a few viewers over the years. The masters of the Eloi, a race of vicious cannibalistic apes.
* How do the Morlocks get the Eloi into the tunnels in the film? By conditioning them to come to them by playing an air raid siren [[MagicalFlutist Pied Piper]] style.
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* The movie had quite a bit too. The aforementioned nuclear war is rather jarring (somehow the [[SpecialEffectsFailure primitive effects]] make it worse in an UncannyValley way), plus [[spoiler: at the end we're treated to a FastMotion scene of a Morlock decaying ''rapidly'']].

* Perhaps the most scary part about the Morlocks are just how much more human they compared to the Eloi.

** ''[[AutoTuneTheNews They're climbin' in yo' windows,]] [[MemeticMutation they're snatchin' yo' people up...]]''

* The movie had quite a bit too. The aforementioned nuclear war is rather jarring (somehow the [[SpecialEffectsFailure primitive effects]] make it worse in an UncannyValley way, but of course YourMileageMayVary on that), plus [[spoiler: at the end we're treated to a FastMotion scene of a Morlock decaying ''rapidly'']].