The spooky season is well underway, and Guillermo del Toro has found the perfect way to delight horror fans—by releasing a terrifying new series.
Titled Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities, the show is an anthology series of epic proportions with eight episodes that will horrify and mystify viewers.
It is being released on Netflix in an innovative way for the streaming platform, one that will come as a surprise to most Netflix users.
Here is everything that viewers will need to know.
'Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities' Release Schedule
Cabinet of Curiosities is not being released all at once as is usually the case for Netflix. It is instead coming out in stages. Two episodes a day will be released from Tuesday, October 25 to Friday, October 28, and each tale promises to be more terrifying than the last.
Vincenzo Natali, who helmed Graveyard Rats, told Newsweek how the show was specially curated by del Toro with the director approaching the filmmakers he wanted to work with and offering them the choice of stories he had selected specially for the season.
"I really liked the slow rollout, I think if they dropped them all at once that would be a little bit disappointing because there's just an element of anticipation that comes with two episodes every night," Natali told Newsweek.
"But speaking from the perspective of working on an anthology, I've done it a number of times, I did a film called Paris Je t'aime a few years ago, and the feeling that you get from it is a little bit like being in a collective.
"It's almost like being in film school because you're around your peers and they're all working on their episode, there is a very friendly kind of competition that comes out of it, but also it's a really, really great energy
"By the way, I've not seen any of the other episodes and I'm dying to see them, I've heard great things about all of them. I love it, I love making an anthology and I really love watching it."
Here is the Release Schedule for 'Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities':
- Tuesday, October 25: Lot 36 and Graveyard Rats
- Wednesday, October 26: The Autopsy and The Outside
- Thursday, October 27: Pickman's Model and Dreams in the Witch House
- Friday, October 28: The Viewing and The Murmuring
'Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities' Episode and Cast Guide
Each episode of Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities has been made by a different director, and each episode is focused on its own scary story and features its own cast.
Del Toro wrote the stories that the episodes Lot 36 and The Murmuring are based on, while Dreams in the Witch House and Pickman's Model are based on short stories by H. P. Lovecraft, for example.
Directors of the anthology series include Natali, Catherine Hardwicke, Guillermo Navarro, Keith Thomas, Panos Cosmatos, Jennifer Kent, David Prior, and Ana Lily Amirpour.
Lot 36 was directed by Navarro. It was written by Regina Corrado and is based on a short story by del Toro. It stars Tim Blake Nelson, Elpidia Carrillo, Demetrius Grosse and Sebastian Roché.
Graveyard Rats was written and directed by Natali and it is based on a short story by Henry Kuttner, and it stars David Hewlett.
The Autopsy was written by David S. Goyer based on a short story by Michael Shea, and it was directed by David Prior. F. Murray Abraham, Glynn Turman, and Luke Roberts star in the episode.
The Outside was directed by Amirpour and written by Haley Z. Boston based on a short story by Emily Carroll. The episode stars Kate Micucci and Martin Starr.
Pickman's Model was directed by Thomas and written by Lee Patterson based Lovecraft's short story of the same name. It stars Ben Barnes, Crispin Glover and Oriana Leman.
Dreams in the Witch House was directed by Hardwicke and written by Mika Watkins based on a Lovecraft short story. Rupert Grint, Ismael Cruz Cordova, DJ Qualls and Nia Vardalos are part of the cast.
The Viewing was written and directed by Cosmatos, who wrote the story alongside Aaron Stewart-Ahn. The cast features Peter Weller, Eric André, Sofia Boutella, Charlyne Yi, Steve Agee and Saad Siddiqui.
The Murmuring was directed by Kent who also wrote the episode which is based on a short story by del Toro. The episode's cast includes Essie Davis, Andrew Lincoln and Hannah Galway.
Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities premieres on Netflix on Tuesday, October 25.
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