Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities arrived on Netflix in October 2022 as an eight-episode anthology, and it still stands as one of TV’s sharpest versions of Lovecraft-style cosmic horror. Del Toro created it and executive produced it, and the rollout had its own little bit of ceremony: a four-night event, with two episodes dropping each day. The show doesn’t lean on jump scares much. It goes after something heavier, building dread through occult mystery, moral rot, monsters, gothic imagery, and those huge unknowable forces that make people feel small.
Two episodes, “Pickman’s Model” and “The Dreams in the Witch House,” pull straight from H. P. Lovecraft. Others, especially “The Viewing” and “Lot 36,” work in the same territory without being direct adaptations, drawing on forbidden knowledge, cult iconography, tentacled horror, and the mental toll of running into something the mind can’t really process. The series also sidesteps some of Lovecraft’s hardest material to adapt, including his ambiguity, racism, and xenophobia, using modern casting and shifts in emphasis instead of taking them on as directly as Lovecraft Country did.
If you’re after well-reviewed horror with a strong director’s stamp on it, Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities is an easy one to pick up. The practical effects help, the production design won an Emmy, and the show’s reputation kept growing in the post-The Walking Dead horror-TV space. Even so, Netflix still hadn’t confirmed a second season by late 2023, despite del Toro saying he wanted to make more.
You can stream Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities on Netflix.
Author: Jesús Bosque
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