Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities | 20 facts about the series

Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities is a horror anthology streaming television series created by Guillermo del Toro for Netflix.

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1. Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities is a horror anthology streaming TV series.
2. It was created by Guillermo del Toro for Netflix.
3. It features eight modern horror stories in the traditions of the Gothic and Grand Guignol genres.
4. Two are co-written by del Toro himself.
5. The others are written and directed by various filmmakers.
6. It premiered on October 25, 2022.
7. The series is “a collection of the Oscar-winning filmmaker’s personally curated stories, described as [equally] sophisticated and horrific.”
8. Guillermo Del Toro introduces each episode.
9. On May 14, 2018, it was announced that Netflix had given the production a series order.
10. Executive producers included Guillermo del Toro, J. Miles Dale, and Gary Ungar.
11. Del Toro also served as writer for multiple episodes and handpick other writers and directors to helm other episodes.
12. In September 2021, The Hollywood Reporter announced that The Babadook filmmaker Jennifer Kent would write and direct an episode starring the film’s lead Essie Davis.
13. The season would consist of seven other episodes, to be directed individually by Ana Lily Amirpour, Panos Cosmatos, Catherine Hardwicke, Guillermo Navarro, David Prior, Vincenzo Natali, and Keith Thomas, with writers such as Regina Corrado, Lee Patterson, Haley Z. Boston, Mika Watkins, and Aaron Stewart-Ahn.
14. The series was described as “in production”, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
15. Principal photography of the series began under the working title Guillermo del Toro Presents: 10 After Midnight on June 28, 2021 in Toronto and Hamilton Ontario Canada, and concluded on February 16, 2022.
16. Del Toro introduces each episode. It pays tribute to Alfred Hitchcock, who introduced each episode of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962), and (as archive footage) in the remake series Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985) (Hitchcock died in 1980).
17. In Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities: Lot 36 (2022) Nick Appleton finds three rare occult books to summon demons named “Liber Primus: Daemonia”, “Liber Secundus: Symvolia” and “Liber Tertius: Perilipsi”. He is told by Roland about the existence of an another book named “Liber Quartus: Sacramentum”. Translated from Latin it means “First Book: Demon”, “Second Book: Symbol”, “Third Book: Summary” and “Fourth Book: Sacrament”.
18. Ben Barnes played Dorian Gray in the 2009 adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s novel. Dealing with a painting with supernatural power that affects the protagonist just like Pickman’s work in 5th episode.
19. Episodes 5 and 6, Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities: Pickman’s Model (2022) and Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities: Dreams in the Witch House (2022), are adaptations of short-stories written by H.P. Lovecraft, published in Weird Tales: “Pickman’s Model” on October, 1927 and “Dreams in the Witch House” on July, 1933.
20. Many of the cast have been part of horror movies previously: Tim Blake Nelson in Fido (2006) and Ghosts of the Ozarks (2021); F. Murray Abraham in Mimic (1997) and Thir13en Ghosts (2001); Rupert Grint in the TV series Servant (2019); Peter Weller in Leviathan (1989), Screamers (1995) and The Order (2003); Essie Davis in The Babadook (2014); Martin Starr in Intruders (2015); Sebastian Roché played recurring roles in the TV series Supernatural (2005) and The Vampire Diaries (2009); Andrew Lincoln in the TV series Afterlife (2005) and The Walking Dead (2010); Steve Agee in Dark Was the Night (2014) and Brightburn (2019); Dan Stevens in The Rental (2020); DJ Qualls in Cherry Falls (2000); Elpidia Carrillo in Predator (1987), Predator 2 (1990) and Aztech (2020); Kevin Keppy in Redneck Carnage (2009), Death Hair 2 (2017), Something in the Woods (2022) and Smile (2022); Greg Ellwand in The Blackcoat’s Daughter (2015); Sofia Boutella in Monsters: Dark Continent (2014), The Mummy (2017) and Prisoners of the Ghostland (2021); Seamus Patterson in Seance (2021); Charlyne Yi in Cloverfield (2008); Brigitte Robinson in Crimson Peak (2015); Michael Therriault in Nurse (2013), Cult of Chucky (2017) and Chucky (2021); Tenika Davis in Saw VI (2009) and Debug (2014); James Neely in Moonlight Sonata (2010); Shauna MacDonald in Saw 3D (2010); Saad Siddiqui in Books of Blood (2020); Tony Munch in Dracula 2000 (2000), Cube Zero (2004) and Land of the Dead (2005); Eric Woolfe in Survival of the Dead (2009), A Christmas Horror Story (2015) and It Chapter Two (2019); Brad Borbridge in Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004); Michael McLachlan in Bless the Child (2000) and Possessed (2000); William Foley in Kingdom Come (2014); Vickie Papavs in Resurrection (1999); Paul Whitney in Summer’s Moon (2009); Julian Richings in Mimic (1997), Cube (1997), Urban Legend (1998), Wrong Turn (2003), Saw IV (2007) and The Witch (2015); and William Jordan in The Midnight Man (2016) and V/H/S/94 (2021).