Guillermo del Toro Cabinet of Curiosities: My Notebooks, Collections, and Other Obsessions

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Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities: Netflix's horror anthology offers perfect Halloween viewing". In summary, Cabinet of Curiosities is a delightful cornucopia of a book, lovingly produced, that will be appreciated by any fan of Guillermo’s work, or indeed of the genre. Del Toro himself curated the list of tales featured in this show and handpicked each of the directors who brought these stories to life for the small screen.

The first part shows off the amazing collection of items found in his man cave, also known as Bleak House. They revel in stimulating their host's senses to extremes and keeping the host conscious as it consumes them from within. Even only looking at the photographs brought strong emotional connections to mind of films and stories that I loved.

Two episodes of Cabinet of Curiosities are released each day on Netflix from October 25 through October 28. Zahra, he encourages them all to take a mixture of cocaine and a custom drug made by Zahra, to place them on the same wavelength.

I loved the boundless enthusiasm with which GDT talks about everything from his creative drive to life in general, which he does in a very down-to-earth manner, peppered with humour, humility, and philosophical nuggets on his creative beliefs and the oft-recurring themes which run through his movies. This visionary filmmaker’s expression and distinct visions can be explored with commentary, interview text, annotations and journal entries.Based on hours of interviews, Marc Scott Zicree, (author of one of my most used reference books, The Twilight Zone Companion) does a sterling job of interviewing Guillermo throughout, about his work and his ideas, showing us the inspirations and the love of fantasy that Guillermo clearly has. Whether the dreams brought on the fever or the fever brought on the dreams Walter Gilman did not know. And then there was the continuous head-butting over Mimic, his first US movie, which would have been so much better if he had been left to his own devices.

Recently, I’ve been facing some challenges in which the number of compromises I’d been making had me feeling that I was being unfaithful to myself. His attempts have been thwarted by terrifying rats, who rapidly swarm and remove any valuables held by recently buried corpses.From mewling infant to maladjusted adult, he was weaned on a healthy diet of John Carpenter, Stephen King, Clive Barker and comic books; meaning he’s naturally drawn to monsters and suspense. The entity melts down and possesses Lassiter's body, stalking the grounds of his home and killing his guard with electricity. As a grown man in 1933, he's a member of the Spiritualist Society who seeks to cross into the other side in hopes of saving Epperley. Cabinet of Curiosities is a dream come true for del Toro fans, providing an intimate look at his collections, personal notebooks, and creative processes. Now, as co-author of the Strain series of novels, director of the Hellboy movies, Oscar-winning film Pan’s Labyrinth and, most recently, Pacific Rim, it seems his dreams have been realised.