Academy Award-winning director Guillermo del Toro is scaring up one thing particular this fall, and the brand new collection is dropping simply in time for Halloween, Netflix introduced Monday.
Co-showrun by del Toro and J. Miles Dale (who collectively produced The Form of Water and Nightmare Alley), Guillermo del Toro’s Cupboard of Curiosities will ship a set of sinister tales curated by GDT himself. It’s all set to premiere on the streamer beginning Tuesday, Oct. 25 with the primary two episodes. Two extra episodes will observe every day via Friday, Oct. 28.
Within the newly launched video embedded above, del Toro previews the “unprecedented and genre-defining tales meant to problem our conventional notions of horror.” Reads the official description: “From macabre to magical, gothic to grotesque or classically creepy, these eight equally refined and sinister tales (together with two authentic tales by del Toro) are dropped at life by a workforce of writers and administrators personally chosen by del Toro.”
“With Cupboard of Curiosities, we got down to showcase the realities current exterior of our regular world, the anomalies and curiosities,” the director stated in an announcement. “We hand-picked and curated a gaggle of tales and storytellers to ship these tales, whether or not they come from outer area, supernatural lore, or just inside our minds. Every of those eight tales is a fantastical peek inside the cupboard of delights current beneath the fact we reside in.”
He continues within the clip: “With Cupboard of Curiosities, what I’m attempting to say is, ‘Look, the world is gorgeous and horrible at precisely the identical time.’”
The bevy of expertise showing all through the collection consists of Crispin Glover (American Gods), F. Murray Abraham (Mythic Quest), Andrew Lincoln (The Strolling Lifeless), Kate Micucci (Mother), Glynn Turman (The Wire), Eric André (The Righteous Gems) and plenty of extra. Episode administrators embody Jennifer Kent (The Babadook), Panos Cosmatos (Mandy), Ana Lily Amirpour (A Woman Walks Residence Alone at Evening) and Catherine Hardwicke (Twilight, 13).
Intrigued to see what del Toro has up his sleeve? Watch the primary footage by urgent PLAY on the video above (and see its first photographs beneath), then tell us your ideas within the feedback.
