Unpacking Netflix’s creepy ‘Cabinet of Curiosities’ collection | Streamed & Screened podcast

Because it’s the season for scary things, we can’t get enough horror films in our lives. Thankfully, Netflix is here for us all with “Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities.” An anthology series in the same vein as “Alfred Hitchcock Presents,” they’ve been dropping two “episodes” a day since Tuesday. We’ll call them “episodes” because they’re basically creepy cinematic novellas, each one helmed by a modern horror legend and featuring a cast-list loaded top to bottom with great actors.

As with every collection of stuff like this, it’s an eclectic grab-bag but we’re here to run through the episodes in a spoiler-free fashion and pick out the best of the bunch.

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Cabinet of Curiosities:

• Lot 36
• Graveyard Rats
• The Autopsy
• The Outside
• Dreams in the Witch House
• Pickman’s Model
• The Viewing
• The Murmuring

Where to watch:

• Dogtown and Z-Boys 2001
• Lords of Dogtown 2005
• Pan’s Labyrinth 2006
• Twilight 2008
• Beyond the Black Rainbow 2010
• The Babadook 2014
• A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night 2014
• Crimson Peak 2015
• The Bad Batch 2016
• The Shape of Water 2017
• Mandy 2018
• The Nightingale 2018
• The Empty Man 2020
• Nightmare Alley 2021
• Firestarter 2022
• Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio 2022

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