Less than a week leading up to Halloween, the dark fantasy wizard Guillermo del Toro teamed up with Netflix to celebrate this year's spooky season by bringing us four nights of a horror anthology, Guillermo Del Toro's Cabinet Of Curiosities. The series features eight unique horror stories, co-written by del Toro, who has curated a collection of unprecedented and genre defining tales, and handpicked various filmmakers to be the director of the set episode. Each is different from the next in terms of storytelling and levels of scariness.
Cabinet Of Curiosities is basically del Toro's version of The Twilight Zone or Alfred Hitchcock Presents. The Oscar-winning director casts himself as the show's host, slowly walking his way around a vintage wooden cabinet, opening the drawers and taking out items and figurines that represent each of the episodes. The series allows other storytellers and filmmakers the opportunity to share their passion for horrifying ghouls, creatures, monsters and all things that lurk in the dark. Some episodes are scarier than others, which depends on what kind of story scares you more -- visitors from outer space, creatures living underground, or more classical depictions of a monster. And here are some from the first night's episodes.
