Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities is one of the Netflix Originals that I have been most excited about this year. What we have here is a horror anthology series with each episode being directed by a famous and acclaimed director. I like how each episode is its own thing, but it does also mean that there will be some you like far more than others.
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You can download or stream the film from Netflix. Click on the Download button at the end of this review. If you like Guillermo del Toro, check out also his Tales of Arcadia series.
The Movie Review
It is Guillermo del Toro that introduces each episode and I love this. The way he gives you a little tease about the premise and theme of the upcoming episode is a lot of fun. Each episode has around an hour runtime and we have a great selection of directors such as Jennifer Kent, Catherine Hardwicke, Keith Thomas, and Guillermo Navarro to name a few.
As well as having a great amount of talent behind the camera, Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities is stacked with talent in front of it. I cannot name everyone, but a few that I got a kick out of were, Andrew Lincoln, Crispin Glover, Essie Davis, and Tim Blake Nelson to name just a handful of my personal favorites.
Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities is made up of eight episodes and I really, really like seven of them. My favorite one is called, Pickman’s Model which is based on a story by H.P Lovecraft where an artist becomes more and more disturbed by a classmate’s paintings of evil creatures. It had a really creepy, Lovecraftian thing going on and I loved it.
Another episode that I had a great deal of fun with is called The Autopsy. What I liked about The Autopsy was that it mixed sci-fi with horror and that was fun. In this episode, we have an alien parasite trying to take hold of people who meets his match with a terminally ill guy performing an autopsy on one of the alien’s victims!
The creepiest episode for me was called, Graveyard Rats. In this episode we have a guy who runs a graveyard taking to grave robbing to pay his gambling debts, only to be dealing with rats that are stealing bodies! I hate rats and this episode really made my skin crawl when I watched it, something my wife thought was hilarious!
I do want to talk about the one episode that I did not like and that was called The Outside. I liked the premise and it had Dan Stevens and Kate Micucci who I really like. However, the tale of a woman who is unhappy with her life, and appearance and who is descending into some kind of weird madness just never clicked with me and I found this episode rather boring. To be fair, it could have just been me as this is one of my wife’s favorite episodes.
Overall, I was very entertained by Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities. If you ask me, seven out of eight of the episodes being great is a hell of a good run for this show. If you love horror and shows that have a really creepy vibe to them, you are going to have a lot of fun with this show. I also want to add that I love the set designs, costumes, and how each episode is set in a different time period too.
