Cabinet of Curiosities review: Guillermo del Toro fan gets Halloween gift

The eight part anthology is full of delectably nasty tales brimming with some of the most exciting voices in horror.

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Del Toro has written two of the episodes but “curated” them all.

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He assembled eight directors to create self-contained nightmares.

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He appears at the start of each, not unlike Rod Serling in The Twilight Zone.

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Throughout the series the tone shifts, but it always keeps one foot in Del Toro’s filmography.

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