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Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities

★ 7.0 66K votes 2022–2022 1 season · 8 episodes Ended Netflix
AnthologyA new story or cast with every episode or season.This show: 10/10UnsettlingA creeping sense of unease and wrongness that gets under your skin.This show: 9/10Visually strikingComposition and imagery worth pausing for.This show: 9/10AtmosphericMood and place thick enough to touch.This show: 9/10Monster horrorCreatures and slashers, fear made physical.This show: 8/10Stylized directionBold, signature formal choices.This show: 8/10Dark toneShadowy mood and subject matter, a shade short of outright bleak.This show: 8/10Mounting dreadThe pleasure is in the slowly mounting fear.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Lize JohnstonKevin KeppyBen BarnesKate MicucciTim Blake NelsonRupert Grint
Written by
Guillermo del Toro
Starring
Lize JohnstonKevin KeppyBen BarnesKate MicucciTim Blake NelsonRupert Grint
Written by
Guillermo del Toro
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About

"Eight directors, one twisted showcase of dread"

An anthology of eight standalone horror tales, each directed by a different filmmaker and introduced by Guillermo del Toro, who curated the stories from classic pulp and original scripts. Tone and quality shift episode to episode: some lean gothic and slow-burn, others go gory and visceral, others are quietly unsettling. The draw is del Toro's fingerprints on the production design and creature work throughout. It's more of a mixed tasting menu than a single sustained story, so expect uneven pacing and wildly different highs and lows across the season.

Watch it for

the anthology format lets you sample wildly different horror styles under one curator's eye.

Maybe skip if

you want a consistent tone, since quality and pacing vary sharply between episodes.

Written by our AI editor to help you decide, spoiler-free by design.

All Seasons

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Season 12022
6.699K87h 29m
EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
▶1Lot 366.6
16K45 min
▶2Graveyard Rats6.7
14K37 min
▶3The Autopsy7.9
16K58 min
▶4The Outside6.2
13K64 min
▶5Pickman's Model6.4
11K63 min
▶6Dreams in the Witch House5.6
10K62 min
▶7The Viewing6.1
11K56 min
▶8The Murmuring6.6
8K64 min

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Lize Johnston Dottie, Keziah Mason, Lotion Woman
Kevin Keppy Blob Man, Corpse
Ben Barnes William Thurber
Kate Micucci Stacey
Tim Blake Nelson Nick Appleton
Rupert Grint Walter Gilman
F. Murray Abraham Dr. Carl Winters
Peter Weller Lionel Lassiter
Essie Davis Nancy Bradley
David Hewlett Masson

Crew

Guillermo del Toro

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