‘Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities’: horror version of “Love, Death & Robots”, capture the soul of Cthulhu-style horror in one episode

Cthulhu has been a big hit in the past few years, but as the most suitable form of Cthulhu, the film industry has not been able to give any good works.

Every time is a large octopus, most directors will only shoot the tentacles, can not shoot that fear of the unknown, in short, is not “Cthulhu taste.

A recent new film “Cthulhu’s flavor” is very heavy, and at first glance, you know the right temperament.

‘Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities’ sounds awkward, but it’s actually the producer’s name.

Guillermo del Toro is a director of Mexican descent, known as the Mexican trio, is the director of the noisy 90th Oscar, Oscar Best Picture ‘The Shape of Water’.

He won the Academy Award for Best Director that year and has been known to Chinese and foreign film fans ever since.

Guillermo del Toro has made many films, not many purely human, ‘The Shape of Water’ shot people and fish, ‘El laberinto del fauno’ shot European and American fantasy, he even executive produced a film, the title is particularly straightforward, called ‘ Splice’.

Although ‘Splice’ does not have a high rating, the title of the movie makes people want to watch it.

It can be said that Guillermo del Toro knows a lot about non-humans, and he not only shoots himself, but now takes everyone with him.

Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities’ is a collection of horror “platters” that he created by using his influence and resources to find eight well-known directors and writers in the industry.

Some people think this is a horror version of ‘Love, Death & Robots’ and ‘Black Mirror’, which is indeed the same in terms of production format.

Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities’ is looking for all the masters of the industry, director one, Guillermo Navarro, a close friend of Hideo Kojima, director of the American drama ‘Hannibal’ and ‘Narcos’.

Panos Cosmatos, shot ‘Mandy’ shortlisted for the 71st Cannes Film Festival Directors Fortnight, insert a sentence, this Nikola Skyech acted, quite worth watching, very interesting horror film.

Vincenzo Natali, famous for ‘Cube’, made ‘In the Tall Grass’, and the previously mentioned ‘Splice’ was made by him.

Others will not be listed, interested can go through, open the collection of these directors, if you are a horror film fans simply open their happy old home, all well-known horror films in the industry.

Lovecraft is listed in the screenwriter’s column, and two of the eight stories are explicit adaptations of his novels, while others clearly draw on elements of his books.

It can be said that this episode of his pedigree is pure, from the director to the screenwriter to the entire production team, all understand the horror film insiders.

And their goal is clear, we do not engage in American-style plasma horror, nor Japanese atmosphere sense of horror, we will engage in Cthulhu-style horror.

Cthulhu-style terror is, frankly speaking, the human fear of the unknown, as well as the human sense of powerlessness and despair in the face of the future and knowledge.

It’s easy to shoot a monster, it’s hard to shoot a sense of despair.

A total of eight episodes, each with a different theme and different quality, each with its own point of view, depending on what type you like.

The first episode summons the evil god, the second episode ‘Graveyard Rats’, the fourth episode is somewhat similar to the Korean horror anime ‘Beauty Water’, the fifth and sixth episode is a direct adaptation of the original.

Some viewers said that the first two episodes are the game ‘Bloodborne’ monster out of re-employment.

What I want to introduce today is the third episode, which I personally think is the most sealed episode of the series, and also the most interesting one.

Late at night, a forensic pathologist in the autopsy, he just dissected to the third dead body, suddenly heard a: run! Run!

The old forensic doctor has been doing this for decades, and their own cancer will have six months of life left, he is not even afraid of death, but at that time but feel the back of the neck chills.

Why run?

This is a case he just took, the town had a mining accident, the sheriff encountered incomprehensible strange things, hope that the forensic autopsy of the dozen bodies to help him find the truth.

This case is very bizarre, initially the town is frequently missing people, a month on the disappearance of five or six.

The police sent all the police forces and mobilized residents to search together and found the body in a tree.

The bodies were wrapped tightly and placed eerily in the crevices of the branches, and when they opened the body bags, they were not quite right.

The body is all wounded, but not what the beast bite left teeth marks, but knife marks.

The murderer must be a masterful knife to cut such a crisp and sharp cut, not only that, there is not a drop of blood at the scene, these bodies also have no blood.

It is reasonable to say that you have used a knife, will certainly bleed, human corpses can not be completely without blood, but these bodies are very white, like a fish, and like a chicken breast in the freezer.

The police followed the trail and soon found the suspect, because the man behaved too strange, he was a miner in the town mine, originally named Eddie. when drinking in the bar, he ran into his workmate, the workmate said you are not Eddie?

He said his name was Allen, not Eddie at all.

The worker felt that he was not mistaken and that this was his colleague, but then a bizarre thing happened.

Allen asked his workers to break the glass and pretend to be drunk to go with him. The workers somehow really carried out his order and followed him out that night.

Of course you can guess the ending, the final workmate died.

The police found the suspect to be arrested, walked to Allen’s home found his home a very indescribable ball-shaped object, wrapped in hair strands, dirty and particularly disgusting, close enough to hear a heartbeat and breathing sounds, almost like a living thing.

Ask the landlady what this is, the landlady does not know, the police take the sphere to the mine to arrest Allen.

Allen saw that the police could obviously run, but did something very unpleasant, he risked returning to smash the window of the police car, grabbed the sphere, and then jumped into the mine.

When the police went after them, an explosion occurred under the mine and Allen, including other miners, was killed.

The police could not solve the case, found the old forensics, the old forensics professional quality is very strong, late at night to work overtime to dissect, while playing music, while recording the results of their own anatomy.

Judging from the first body, it should have died from asphyxiation, not an explosion.

But the closer we got to Allen’s body, the stranger it became. Their insides were ghastly white, with no trace of blood.

Moreover, there was a small hole on their corpses, did the sphere suck the blood through the corpses?

Two bodies in a row had no blood and were so white inside that the coroner speculated if all the blood was in Allen’s body.

Is it possible that Allen was not trying to escape, but to destroy the sphere?

He was just about to dissect the fourth when he suddenly heard eerie noises coming from the morgue outside, and a burned black hand suddenly moved.

Dead Allen surprisingly came to life, he pushed open the autopsy room step by step crawling towards the forensics.

Allen says he is trapped in this body of flesh and blood, I am a traveler, not an earthling.

That sphere is a spaceship, if found to go to destroy the ship, so he is an alien?

Allen’s ultimate goal is to occupy the body of the forensic doctor, because the forensic profession is special and he doesn’t have to risk killing people in the town to have access to food.

Then the forensic scientist was tied to the autopsy table, usually he dissected the body, this is the first time lying on the autopsy table perspective.

He was stiff with only one arm moving, and Allen lay next to him, surprisingly taking out a scalpel to dissect himself, he wanted the parasites in his body to burrow into the skin of the forensic scientist.

You face a creature more powerful than you, there is absolutely no room for resistance, you watch the octopus tentacles into the skin, this time can only do is to leave a message.

And a lot of viewers for this move are comments, forensics is really too great.

The specific later will not spoilers, this unit set is very short and compact, a total of only forty minutes, the plot is particularly compact.

At the beginning is a small town disappearance to create a suspenseful atmosphere, the middle leads to the mysterious sphere, the morgue autopsy, there are large close-up shots of the body, the forensic pathologist little by little to unravel the truth.

This section is particularly like a horror film ‘The Autopsy of Jane Doe’, interested in watching, but also the horror story of forensic autopsy.

Waiting for the aliens to appear when the audience realized that it is a higher creature, from the body of the aliens out of the large octopus began to bring people full of Cthulhu feeling.

The most interesting thing is that the second half of the space is very closed, there is only one dissection room, and the shots are very fixed, the forensic scientist and the aliens to engage each other intellectually.

The plot builds up layer by layer, culminating at the end.

The camera is particularly elaborate, many people say it is a high-grade version of ‘American Horror Story’, but it is definitely a notch above ‘American Horror Story’, the camera is very cinematic.

In fact, the quality of this episode is very uneven, some episodes are very controversial, but on the third episode, directly pulled up the score of the whole drama.

If you do not watch the other can pull out the third episode alone to see a total of less than an hour, absolutely no waste of your time.

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