🍿 2022-11-05 17:00:36 – Paris/France.
Guillermo Del Toro's "Cabinet of Curiosities" can be considered a hit for Netflix after debuting at No. 3 on its top 10 with 50 million hours watched in its first six days of availability. The horror anthology series consists of eight episodes, two co-written by Del Toro and six written and directed by filmmakers such as Vincenzo Natali, David Prior or Panos Cosmatos, all with the director of 'Hellboy' as animator.
The variety of stories it presents have in common a taste for classic horror movies, bizarre literature and Lovecraft almost present in every chapter in one way or another and the presence of the director himself in the first minutes, recovering a lost tradition of seeing a visible head that accompanies us through the panorama of upcoming exhibitions, in the tradition of Chicho Ibáñez Serrador, Rod Serling, or even literary creators such as Roald Dahl or Ray Bradbury in their respective series based on their works.
The occasion of the premiere of this series of eight episodes leads us to remember other anthologies in feature film format or collection of episodes, which can be found in Streaming, all with a commonality with the Netflix proposal, either because of its related classic literary inspiration, its presenters with CVs in terror like Del Toro or the idea of objects as the common thread of all the stories. If you want to know more about horror seriesyou can check out our list on different platforms, our Halloween special or even our horror anthology ranking.
Tales from Beyond the Grave (From Beyond the Grave, 1974)
Director: Kevin Connor. Starring: Peter Cushing, Ian Bannen, Ian Carmichael, Diana Dors, Margaret Leighton, Donald Pleasence, Nyree Dawn Porter, David Warner.
One of the best horror anthologieshome British specialist Amicusin this case applying a particular maturity to its stories, both in their staging and in the decadent setting that unites them, with a store that, like Del Toro's Cabinet, has cursed objects whose buyers acquire to take us to mirrored stories with inner demons, dopplegängers and other evil happenings.
Available in film
Chronicles of Evil (1992)
Address: José María Carreño (Creator) and vvaa. With: Antonio Resines, Javier Bardem, Ángel de Andrés López, Manuel Alexandre and Juanjo Puigcorbés.
forget it 13 episode Spanish horror anthology who, like Del Toro, follows the same creative line to manage the work of different directors and scriptwriters, such as Ricardo Franco, Ivan Zulueta, Manolo Matjí or Antonio Drove, and national movie stars such as Antonio Resines, Javier Bardem, Ángel de Andrés López, Manuel Alexandre and Juanjo Puigcorbé.
Episodes such as 'The Door to Success' stand out, about a child lost in the bowels of an English court who leads an evil Sancho Gracia to hell, as well as other stories set in Spain coming to the Games Olympics, with werewolves, witches, zombies or the swan song of Zulueta, an unclassifiable surreal journey entitled 'Ritesti'.
Available on Rtve Play
"Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark" (Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, 2019)
Director: André Øvredal. With: Zoe Margaret Colletti, Michael Garza, Austin Zajur, Gabriel Rush, Kathleen Pollard, Gil Bellows, Javier Botet.
The other anthology made by Guillermo del Toro is an adaptation of a group of children's horror books that became famous for their macabre illustrations, which led to the ban. Here, the stories take shape in an overarching story that brings together several supernatural urban legends fashioned into monsters and formidable beings that, like in the Netflix series, are carefully recreated with costumes, animatronics, and makeup. Oh, to see what passion he puts into it.
Critical to Espinof | Available on Netflix
Monsters (1988-1991)
Directed by: Richard P. Rubinstein, Mitchell Galin (creators) and vvaa. With: John Bolger, Pamela Dean Kelly, John Saxon, Lisa Waltz, David McCallum, Tempestt Bledsoe, Carlos Lauchu, Robert Weil, Michael J. Anderson.
A little-known horror series that shares with 'Le Cabinet des Curiosités' a obsession with traditionally created creatures, whether with puppets or costumes, being the attraction of each of its episodes. The stories aren't bad, but with barely 20 minutes you barely get a translation of the 5 pages of an EC comic strip. A bit of what 'Tales from the Crypt' would end up doing with more money, though this one never failed to be grotesque every week.
Available on Youtube
Body Bag (Body Bags, 1993)
Directed by: John Carpenter, Tobe Hooper. With: John Carpenter, Tom Arnold, Tobe Hooper, Robert Carradine, Alex Datcher, Peter Jason, Stacy Keach, David Warner, Mark Hamill.
If seeing Del Toro present every episode in person is a luxury, imagine if it was the very director of “The Thing” or “Halloween Night” who hosted his own stories. And also disguised as the living dead. It's not just an event to recover for that, but because he directs two segments himself, leaving the third to Tobe Hooper, being the first a small classic at the height of the best works of his filmography.
Available on Amazon Prime
Creep Show (2019-)
Directed by: Greg Nicotero (Creator) and vvaa. Starring: Logan Allen, David Arquette, Madison Bailey, Adrienne Barbeau, Hannah Barefoot, Tobin Bell, Nelson Bonilla, Connor Christie, Chad Michael Collins, Nathan W. Collins.
The series that bears the mark of the film of George Romero and Stephen King It doesn't do its title justice, but it's a good modern-day adaptation of 'Monsters', with Greg Nicotero turning his very humble production into a spectacle of special effects and monstrous, bloody, macabre creations that, although that they do not the accompaniment they deserve in the staging and staging, they always deliver and turn the horror into a little show in less than 20 minutes.
Critical to Espinof | Available in Atresplayer
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