{"id":106378,"date":"2022-10-24T09:01:20","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T09:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/guillermo-del-toros-cabinet-of-curiosities-is-scary-good\/"},"modified":"2022-10-24T09:01:20","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T09:01:20","slug":"guillermo-del-toros-cabinet-of-curiosities-is-scary-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/guillermo-del-toros-cabinet-of-curiosities-is-scary-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Guillermo Del Toro’s Cabinet Of Curiosities is scary good"},"content":{"rendered":"
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At the start of every episode of Netflix’s latest anthology horror series, Guillermo Del Toro’s Cabinet Of Curiosities<\/em><\/span>, <\/em>audiences are greeted by the Oscar-winning directors. Introducing each new tale in front of an actual cabinet of curiosities, the Pan’s Labyrinth<\/em><\/span> <\/em>filmmaker immediately evokes both Alfred Hitchcock Presents <\/em>and Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone<\/em>. And the comparisons are apt, if readily welcomed. After all, del Toro’s first foray into television finds him playing host and tastemaker to a stellar roster of horror and thriller storytellers who remind us why this genre remains fertile ground for exploring today’s most relevant issues.<\/p>\n

But maybe we should pause and explain why del Toro picked the \u201ccabinet of curiosities\u201d as both title and concept for the show. As he explains in the series’ opening episode (the Guillermo Navarro-directed \u201cLot 36,\u201d written by Regina Corrado from an original del Toro story): \u201cIn centuries past, when the world was full of mystery and traveling was reserved for the very few, a new form of collection was born.\u201d The cabinet of curiosities, which could be a building or an actual piece of furniture, housed any and all sorts of things. And tied to every one of its objects was a story. At the top of every installment, he opens up the titular wood-carved cabinet and offers us an object that will prove crucial to these stories (a set of keys, say, or a remote control). <\/p>\n