it is a Horror Anthology Fit for the Streaming Age

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Each episode draws from Del Toro's love of gothic opulence, black humour and oddly beautiful monsters 

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A mostly chilling, thrilling selection of scary tales. Guillermo Del Toro has made a selection pack of horror shorts full of ghosts, gore and giggles 

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The horror is of the campfire story kind, scary enough to make you put an extra light on but not aiming to ruin your sleep for the foreseeable 

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It’s tremendously fun and a great showcase for some emerging horror directors 

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it is a horror/comedy about a meek woman who wants to be beautiful 

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it feels out of step with the penny dreadful tone of the others 

The stand-outs are opening episode Lot 36, in which Tim Blake Nelson’s racist curmudgeon gets his comeuppance via an immigrant from another realm 

Hopefully this cabinet has many doors left to open.