Eight tales of psychological, surreal, and paranormal horror captured through the lens of eight directors.
Lots with unimaginable dark secrets, rats and underground entities that long to take revenge for been seen as pestilent, dead bodies waiting to disclose horrible otherworldly truths, superficial products that promise profound personal transformation and social acceptance, terrifying art that evokes the most disturbing feelings, bottomless hopes of cheating death, collectables that were never meant to be kept, and houses that express gief and pain… What more could you ask for on Halloween?
Cabinet of Curiosities could be characterised as dark, claustrophobic, morbid, twisted, investigating, pessimistic, unscientific, and unholy. Great actors, such as Tim Blake Nelson, David Hewlett, F. Murray Abraham, Kate Micucci, Dan Stevens, Ben Barnes, Crispin Glover, Rupert Grint, Peter Weller, Sofia Boutella, Essie Davis, Andrew Lincoln, and the rest of the cast, become their characters and project the darkest side of the human psyche.
Under the watchful eye of Guillermo Del Toro, Ana Lily Amirpour, Panos Cosmatos, Catherine Hardwick, Jennifer Kent, Vincenzo Natali, Guillermo Navarro, David Prior, and Keith Thomas use their lens to capture this darkness inside us and manifest our fears through an audiovisual experience that will captivate you – especially in a time like Halloween. Every director has a unique perspective, every film has a unique story to tell, and every tale uniquely and profoundly explores fear, greed, guilt, profit, loneliness, memory, the cost of value, and the mystical and unholy world hidden behind ours.
No need to review them separately; unbiased, feel free to explore them yourselves and go in blind. Speaking of bias — and without saying I didn’t absolutely LOVE all of them — as an avid enthusiast of H.P. Lovecraft, I’ll have to admit that my favourite was Pickman’s Model. Very few have managed to capture the horrors Lovecraft envisioned, and I’ve been waiting a long time to see another director depict those evil atrocities.
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