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Guillermo del Toro is bringing a star-studded revulsion series to Netflix

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Guillermo del Toro is bringing a horror anthology serial publication to Netflix, appropriately entitled Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities.

Netflix's announcement describes the series as a "macabre mashup of genre-defining horror," and as wel inside information the cast and directors of the individual episodes. Here's who is involved in each installment, picked by del Toro himself:

Saint Andrew the Apostle Lincoln (The Walking Dead), Essie Davis (The Babadook), and Hannah Galway (Sex/Life) star in an sequence from The Babadook director Jennifer Kent, bringing to lifetime an original story from del Toro.
F Murray Abraham (Amadeus), Glynn Turman (Ma Rainey's Black Bottom), and Luke Roberts (Black Sails) star in an episode from Man of Steel and The Sour Dub writer David S Goyer, directed by David Prior (The Empty Human being) and based along a Michael Shea short fib.
Tim Blake Nelson (Watchmen), Elpidia Carrillo (Marauder), Demetrius Grosse (Lovecraft Rural area), and Sebastian Roché (The Humankind in the High Castle) appear in an episode penned by Regina Corrado (Deadwood) and del Toro, directed by Guillermo Navarro (Narcos).
Crispin Glover (Back to the Future) and Ben Barnes (Shadow and Bone) prima in an episode supported a HP Lovecraft abruptly story, written aside Shelton Jackson Lee Patterson (The Settlement), with Keith Thomas (Firestarter) directing.
Peter Weller (RoboCop) stars in an episode left-slanting by Aaron Stewart-Ahn and Panos Cosmatos (Mandy), with Cosmatos also directing.
With no casting details proclaimed just all the same, some other episode is fenced in by Mika Watkins (Black Mirror), based happening a Horsepower Lovecraft short account, and manageable by Catherine Hardwicke (Twilight).
Jacques Louis David Hewlett (The Shape of Water) stars in an episode from writer/director Vincenzo Natali (Hannibal), based on a Henry Kuttner short story.
Another episode without a confirmed cast will be directed past Ana Lily Amirpour (A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night) and penned by Haley Z. Hub of the Universe (Brand Recent Cherry Flavor), based connected an Emily Carroll short story.

The serial is billed by Netflix to cost "a collection of unprecedented and genre-defining stories meant to challenge our traditional notions of revulsion" with episodes that will follow "widely distributed and sinister" and range from "alarming to magical, gothic to ugly or classically creepy." (H/T Gizmodo) Del Toro executive produces, along with J Miles Dale, Gary Ungar, and Regina Corrado.

In that location's no eject date for Guillermo del Toro's Storage locker of Curiosities just yet, but the next del Toro film to exist released is Nightmare Alley, which testament atomic number 4 outgoing this December 3. Until then, suss out our guide to the top-quality Netflix repugnance movies to fulfill out your watchlist.

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