Guillermo del Toro Cabinet of Curiosities: My Notebooks, Collections, and Other Obsessions

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Nevertheless, I would have loved to have been given a more detailed breakdown of the plots, characters and ideas of these movies; alas, perhaps the concise summaries of these projects is precisely due to their stalled productions, or the auteur’s fear of disclosing too much should he one day get to see their fruition. I found the right color for the blood, and I thought it looked good to have it, so that it started to look like a found grimoire. Del Toro himself curated the list of tales featured in this show and handpicked each of the directors who brought these stories to life for the small screen. Even only looking at the photographs brought strong emotional connections to mind of films and stories that I loved.

Sensing Winters's cancer, it subdues him and plans to parasitize him, using his cancer as a replenishing food source. 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. Each turn of the page shows the reader something new, something delightfully ghoulish, often jawdropping.In this section, GDT also talks about his graphic inspirations, on how he read paintings, analyse films, explains his techniques of storytelling and his idea incubating notebooks. Overall, I thoroughly enjoyed this hefty compendium which chronicles his career from Cronos up until Pacific Rim. I haven't even read the whole thing since there's so much to digest, but this is a 5 star book through and through.

His novel Pigs, a dark and violent neo-noir revenge tale, was released by the Ethan Ellenberg Literary Agency.On top of these wonderful glimpses into his notebooks, CoC also provides interview questions conducted by the book’s contributor, Marc Scott Zicree, which help us delve into various aspects of GDT’s personal life, upbringing, and multitudinous influences. CABINET OF CURIOSITIES is not just a collection of sketches or notes about del Toro’s films; it is something far better. The result is a startling, intimate glimpse into the life and mind of one of the world’s most creative visionaries. Now, as co-author of the Strain series of novels, director of the Hellboy movies, Oscar-winning film Pan’s Labyrinth and, most recently, Pacific Rim, it seems his dreams have been realised.

To access you ebook(s) after purchasing, you can download the free Glose app or read instantly on your browser by logging into Glose. Episodes titled Pickman’s Motel and Dreams in the Witch House are both based on short stories by horror fiction master H. Yet, Guillermo del Toro did it in his film, and he was completely unapologetic if it was not done for sensationalism and if it strengthened the story. Daniel James is an author of speculative (and frequently dark and weird) fiction, from Liverpool, England.As the editor behind Lit Hub’s film and TV newsletter, What to Watch (*cough* subscribe here), I consider it my duty to bring you the source material behind literary adaptations—so here’s where you can read the gooey, gross, very good stories that feature in Cabinet.