In addition to being a famous and Academy Award-winning director, Guillermo del Toro is a tireless hero to other directors, from his recent emotional defense on Twitter to his hateful tirade against Martin Scorsese to his comments on his brutal Mimic years ago. It makes an unsolicited, enthusiastic recommendation to sequel the movie directly to the video. (It was made without her involvement – she just loves it, maybe more than the originals.) So, while many other characters might excel at playing Alfred Hitchcock's dark story director, it seems particularly fitting. Watch del Toro give his name and character to "The Cabinet of Curiosities," the Netflix anthology series that gives eight different directors nearly an hour to come up with a chilling, disturbing and/or disturbing horror story. past. , even if it is said that it is not a requirement.
This eclectic group of directors associated with horror and horror has elements that fans of the genre should look forward to. Episode three, The Autopsy, features David Pryor's first feature film since The Hollow Man, and episode eight, The Murmuring, features a film by Babadook director Jennifer Kent. A return to horror and a reunion with the star of that movie, A.C. Davis.
Featured in the series, "The Murmuring" is a more opulent gothic style characterized by local drama and horror. Many of the other mini-movies here tend toward Lovecraft; Two are actually based on stories written by H.P. Lovecraft, and the third is based on a story by one of his contemporaries. Surprisingly, the two heavy, shiny identical figures that appear in two of Guillermo Navarro's first episodes of "Lot 36" and "The Autopsy" are neither Lovecraft's work nor the mystical object at the center of "Guillermo Navarro." "Mandy" is Panos Cosmatos' "Watching" movie, in which a seemingly unlikely group meets with the promise of seeing something extraordinary.
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In the seventh installment of the eighth series, The View acts almost like a parody of the rhythm of several other storylines, ending the clock with a game with historical details and a stylized atmosphere before finally unleashing an overwhelming climax. This structure is repeated throughout the series without the mischievous side of Cosmatos. Other episodes saw the character's development as a racist street sweeper (Tim Blake Nelson) breaking into an abandoned closet on the 36th, and a strange housewife (Kate Micucci) using a new, life-altering lotion in Anna Lily Amirpour. The "outside" tends to be repetitive and caricatured. Likewise (and less terribly funny), Kathryn Hardwicke in Dreams in a Witch's House and Keith Thomas's Pickman's Model (both strangely original Lovecraftian adaptations) finish their story receptions before they run out.
But even these two weak parts boast detailed production design, efficient performance, and wonderful creatures. All eight episodes have their own charm, and in real cinema, Curiosity Cabinet challenges the conventional wisdom that sets are terribly inconsistent. At least on TV, the format could offer a welcome change from a slick medium to the idea of making a 10-act novel or 13-hour movie for the small screen. If anything, Curiosity Locker may be a bit inconsistent in timing, playtime, or tone; Kent's "Grumble" is an unforgettable seasonal hit, not because it's particularly scary (it's almost subtle compared to what it contains), but because it offers something very different from its siblings. "Outside" emerges from its late-20th-century connotations in an indefinitely animated period. Even the best of them can be small; Cemetery Rat, a wild and angry breed, it seems.
The mileage of other viewers may vary, depending on their personal interest in the director's own style and/or their personal tolerance for wanting to be frank. An autopsy is a major endeavor either way, as David Pryor's juxtaposition of nature and the supernatural can be recognized almost instantly while delivering some literally agonizing trauma.
If the cautionary backbone of many of these stories is predictable, and if their runtimes can inspire nostalgia for the network's narrowly defined 44-minute days, Treasury has a Taurus-like desire to back it up and keep it in the spotlight. The different styles of directors ultimately remain unchanged.
The first two episodes of "Cabinet of Curiosities" will air on October 25, with two more episodes every day starting October 28.
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