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

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However, Jenkins takes advantage of the situation and burrows into Walter's body, bursting forth and killing him just before dawn. She taxidermies her husband, cuts her hair, applies makeup, and arrives to work, stunning her coworkers, who invite her to join them. If that wasn’t enough, the book is peppered with essays from friends and work colleagues about Guillermo or his work.

You may remember that I reviewed Guillermo’s art book to his film Pacific Rim back in June 2013, which showed some of these drawings. Honestly, I was lost a number of times because del Toro will have thoughts about multiple projects at once. Thurber lights the works on fire and accidentally shoots Pickman, who says the works were not based on imagination, but real life and scenes of the future. 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. They have since collaborated on “The Fall” and “The Night Eternal” which make up “The Strain Trilogy.

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. What do they all have in common besides being visual works of art, treading the fine line between nightmarish fairytale and astounding beauty? With his movies - from blockbusters like Hellboy to the Oscar-winning Pan's Labyrinth - comics, and novels, del Toro has proven himself to be a unique visionary.

The book's roughly split into three parts, covering his collections, notebooks and lastly the unfinished projects.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. But other love letters here were written by people I do respect, like Ron Perlman, whose open letter to del Toro is one of the sweetest things I've ever read.