© 2022 Netflix, Inc.We’re getting Masters of Horror vibes from this new anthology of terrifying tales, and that’s a good thing. Like that excellent 2005-07 Showtime series, Netflix’s Cabinet of Curiosities adapts a number of scary stories, each helmed by a different director.
This series gets a powerful creative edge from the involvement of filmmaker Guillermo del Toro, noted for his visually poetic work on dark fantasy films like Pan’s Labyrinth, The Shape of Water and Nightmare Alley. Del Toro created and executive produces the show, and while he is not directing any of the stories, he is introducing each episode and has personally curated the tales, which are described as being “both equally sophisticated and horrific.”
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He also handpicked the writers and directors, relatively newer filmmakers whose names may not be as familiar to average viewers as the higher-profile directors on Masters of Horror, but they all have established and terrific genre work on their resumés.
Adaptations in the eight-episode anthology range from classics by H.P. Lovecraft (“Pickman’s Model” and “Dreams in the Witch House”) and Henry Kuttner (“Graveyard Rats”), who published their stories nearly a century ago in pulp magazines like Weird Tales, to works from modern masters such as print/webcomics author/illustrator Emily Carroll (“The Outside”) and del Toro himself, who conceived two original stories (“The Murmuring” and “Lot 36”).
The series debuts on Netflix Tuesday, Oct. 25, and two new episodes are available daily through Friday, Oct. 28.
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