Netflix and Oscar winner Guillermo del Toro (The Shape of Water, Blade 2, Hellboy) have teamed up for new anthology series “Cabinet of Curiosities,” a collection of live-action stories that Netflix says “is meant to challenge our traditional notions of horror.”
Expectations = 0. Either not scary at all or unoriginal and/or predictive
forgot well made.
he does classic horror, no jump scares which we are used to these days. so his horror is more on the conventional scale which is fine.
just like masters of horror. some good some bad. even from the classic greats.
S1, Ep1 Lot 36 Oct 25th
S1, Ep2 Graveyard Rats Oct 25th
S1, Ep3 The Autopsy Oct 26th
S1, Ep4 The Outside Oct 26th
S1, Ep5 Model Oct 27th
S1, Ep6 Dreams in the Witch House Oct 27th
S1, Ep7 The Viewing Oct 28th
S1, Ep8 The Murmuring Oct 28th
Tired watching since wife loves horror/scary/spooky movies.
Did the first one: She thought it was OK, pretty run of the mill with just odd pacing to try to make it seem different.
For me: The quote at the top "is meant to challenge our traditional notions of horror.” It did not do that at all. It is nearly like you took our standards of horror that existed since the 70's directly out of the box and used it. Nearly every 'sound goes quiet, then loud noise to spook you!" was predictable as usual. Monsters was nothing special a blend of what I feel stephen king would do if he was allowed to design HellRaiser monsters (normal people/things with 'ick its partially dead' visuals glued on).
Just remember this is only off the first one. Since after one I didnt feel an urge to watch more. She did but more so since it was easy to continue watching vs an urge to need to watch more.
On a 1 to 10 scale I'd say a 5, its middle of the road horror not good, not bad. Purely average that was cut from the boiler plate template of horror aligned with koontz/stephen king adapted movies has used for decades.
Not that it is bad. But saying revolutionary or visionary redefining the new face of horror genre seems a bit far fetched to claim. Its more reconfirming that the horror genre does indeed include this style already and been used a lot already, just not used in a few years is all.
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They already talked about going to weekly scheduled releases. I'm not saying it's related to this particular title, but things are going to get worse on netflix.
I do the same with shows I like. All the shows I like are episodic and dont have an ongoing story. So whichever episode description strikes me as interesting in the list that night.
Its like watching old school reruns, whichever one is on kinda thing.
-We don't control what happens to us in life, but we control how we respond to what happens in life.
-Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times. -G. Michael Hopf
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I do it with shows I never seen before too that have been out and I get curious about them.
Only easy examples I can think of at the moment is I watched bojack horseman in random order, as I was watching for the humor not the plot. And Parks and rec, when I started watching it was a few seasons in so I watched them all in order of episode description: "This one sounds funny" to "this one sounds least funny".
But I think its because I overwhelming prefer shows with no over arching plot or story. I like them episodic or sitcom-y (each episode is its own 'thing') So doesnt bother me to watch shows with an ongoing plot/story in the wrong order and just based on which episode would entertain me most is the ones watched first, vs which is the correct order.
-We don't control what happens to us in life, but we control how we respond to what happens in life.
-Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times. -G. Michael Hopf
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I love stories, just not in my games or TV shows. For stories I go to books or tabletop RPG.
My TV show tastes is very aloof and "value entertainment per minute" based. its been a LONG time since I cared about watching a show that wasn't comedy episodic based as I like comedy and it doesnt need to be a well written story to have funny in the show. (Python for example. NO story, funny as hell)
For me its more that 'seen it, same same'. I guess. Any show with a plot, or a story, or an arc is so predictable rehash of 'if it works use it' TV show hooks that I (personally) have no interest in seeing it again for the 1000th time just with a different background, setting, and characters.
And not rude at all. It may very well be my lack of 'seriousness' about TV shows is exactly like you was as a teen.
I dont see TV shows as anything to take serious enough for me to want to watch them in order, to see a slowly revealed plot that I have to wait 1-2-3 weeks to see the next one of. I'll just grab a book that I can read all of at once if I want story and contiguous plot I need to keep track of.
If its on TV it has to be 1 of 3 things for me to want to see it: Funny, Cartoon, or Science related (or a mix funny/cartoon I LOVE venture brothers, archer, frisky dingo, bobs burgers..etc). Beyond that I cannot gather enough interest to care to watch them in correct order, trogging thru the bad/boring episodes to get to the good ones simply so I can keep the chronological order of the plot in correct series.
-We don't control what happens to us in life, but we control how we respond to what happens in life.
-Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times. -G. Michael Hopf
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just because something is an anthology dosent necessarily mean u should watch in whatever order u like. they can also put the best episodes first, and maybe have some kind of thematic buildup even if it dossent look like it at first.
@StEFaN7
But that would still hinge on if a thematic buildup is even relevant to you personally, would it not?
Not saying watching out of order is the correct way, or intended way. But watching them out of order if you have no care for spoilers or linear plot time direction isnt 'wrong' either.
Its like saying there is a wrong way to eat a sandwich I feel. If you enjoy the sandwich then you ate it the correct way for you. You like the meat first on the outside? Don't let me tell you it must be bread->meat->bread.
-We don't control what happens to us in life, but we control how we respond to what happens in life.
-Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times. -G. Michael Hopf
Disclaimer: Post made by me are of my own creation. A delusional mind relayed in text form.
True, I am usually the odd one out on things and preferences
For this show itself, wife watched the 2nd one. Said she might watch others if she has free time to kill and nothing else horror related in netflix list is worth watching.
Said it was OK, not bad but nothing that makes her antsy for new episodes. Said it reminded her of if young Stephen King did early 1900 Lovecraft setting horror, and it was directed by Hitchcock (or maybe the other way around).
So it's good for what it is, but blends in with a lot of other "The olden times makes common horror tropes more spooky/scary" style horror.
-We don't control what happens to us in life, but we control how we respond to what happens in life.
-Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times. -G. Michael Hopf
Disclaimer: Post made by me are of my own creation. A delusional mind relayed in text form.
Graveyard Rats is kind of a masterpiece in its own right. It's very much based on E.A. Poe's writings, and the atmosphere is fantastic.
The reason why she felt it was OK only is that there have been so many horror novels/films that have dealt with the same topics as this episode -- but still, Poe is the origin, not the other way around.
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