Guillermo Del Toro takes us into the Cabinet Of Curiosities in a new trailer
Everyone's favorite horror expert Guillermo Del Toro is debuting his Netflix anthology series in October
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“Picture your minds like a cabinet, where you lock up your darkest thoughts and deepest fears,” Guillermo Del Toro ominously says in the newly released trailer of his Netflix anthology series. Clearly, Cabinet Of Curiosities is the result of what happens when Del Toro opens up his own cabinet for the world to see. The acclaimed filmmaker’s latest brainchild looks like a total treat for horror fans.
The Oscar-winning director has created, executive produced, and is the co-showrunner of this collection of genre-defining stories that challenge traditional notions of horror, from macabre to magical, gothic to grotesque. Each of the eight episodes features a different director and set of actors, including two original sinister stories from Del Toro himself. He will also introduce every installment.
To no one’s surprise, the trailer is stunning, confounding, and nightmare-inducing at the same time. It promises to deliver on classic tropes like haunted houses, cemeteries, cursed books, evil forests, and the undead, among other exciting and creepy stuff.
The eight directors helming episodes of Cabinet Of Curiosities are Guillermo Navarro, Vincenzo Natali, Ana Lily Amirpour, David Prior, Keith Thomas, Catherine Hardwicke, Jennifer Kent, and Panos Cosmatos. Meanwhile, the ensemble includes Andrew Lincoln, Tim Blake Nelson, Ben Barnes, Sofia Boutella, Charlyne Yi, F. Murray Abraham, Rupert Grint, Kate Micucci, Dan Stevens, Ismael Cruz Córdova, Nia Vardalos, Essie Davis, Glynn Turman, and Eric André.
The anthology comes just in time to get you into that Halloween spirit. It will roll out two new episodes a day from October 25 to October 28 on Netflix.
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While some of the cast and visuals appeal to me, I’ve been most disappointed with del Toro on Nightmare Alley and Crimson Peak, where I thought the same thing; also, I no longer have Netflix, so it looks like I need to get a free week at the end of the year and catch up…?
Serious question: what did this dude do that would make anyone think he was a horror expert?
Devil’s Backbone is one of the great Horror movies of our time. We could squabble about whether Pan’s Labrynth is Horror, but the Horror scenes in it are downright terrifying. Every movie he has ever directed has at least some Horror elements. He also produced the all-time unsettling El Orphanato. The man has Horror in his damn bones.
So he’s directed one and a half horror movies
He’s also a massive aficionado with a house of horrors of his own. I’m approaching my own 10,000 hours on the subject, and would consider him one of the most knowledgeable horror geeks on the planet.
So he’s exactly as qualified as Rob Zombie
Regardless of what you presume of del Toro’s talent as a director in the horror genre, he truly is an aficionado of horror media spanning from 1930s Universal Pictures to the present times.
Tim Lucas has forgotten more about horror than Guillermo knows
It’s pretty clear from all his movies that he’s a genre nerd, even if most of them aren’t “scary”. Horror as a genre isn’t just about pure tension and fright, e.g. classic ghost stories and monster movies.Also, it only takes one great film for a director to be worth paying attention to, eg. Jordan Peele after Get Out. Quantity isn’t a great metric.
He’s also known as one of Hollywood’s best designers of cool/creepy monsters. In addition to those in his own movies (Blade II, Hellboy and Hellboy II, Shape of Water, etc), he also designed the monsters from Antlers, Mama, and Splice. I’m probably forgetting some.
Wait, isn’t Cabinet of Curiosities an Aaron Mehnke podcast?
Man, he sure took a wrong turn back at Albuquerque. Those first couple of films were a hoot!
Yes please. It’s giving me Masters of Horror vibes!