WORTH WATCHING: Guillermo del Toro’s Horror Anthology, ..."Cult auteur and horror fan Guillermo del Toro presents a weeklong anthology of deluxe horror stories."Cabinet of CuriositiesNetflix
SERIES PREMIERE
Taking a cue from Rod Serling (
The Twilight Zone and especially
Night Gallery), Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro (
The Shape of Water) shares his love for baroque horror as host and curator of a four-night wallow in things that go boo (and worse) in the night. With two episodes dropping daily through Friday, the Cabinet opens with the theme of “Scavengers” who get more than they bargain for. Tim Blake Nelson (Watchmen) stars in “Lot 36” as an amoral Storage Wars-like bidder on abandoned lockers who awakens a horrific entity. David Hewlett (Water) chews the grisly scenery in the darkly Dickensian “Graveyard Rats”—and the title’s no joke—as a debt-ridden grave-robbing graveyard steward who believes rodents are depriving him of his buried treasures. His subterranean search ends about as well as you’d expect. These immorality tales have a Tales from the Crypt sting to them.