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Positive:
13
Mixed:
8
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Critic Reviews
The Daily BeastOct 24, 2022
Season 1 Review:
This collection of original and adapted stories doesn’t feature a single dud, delivering frights, heartache and insanity in excitingly surprising fashion. So electric and inspired are these hour-long episodes that you’ll wish there were twenty more on the way. ... The series is at once cohesive and diverse, tilling familiar soil in order to unearth a bounty of uncanny riches.
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RogerEbert.comOct 24, 2022
Season 1 Review:
It's not just the promise of a good scare that casts a spell, but it's the exquisite corpses, furnished haunted houses, nightmarish paintings, and more. Every short here has a piece to recommend it, even if some burns can be too slow, or moral lessons a little too pat. ... A treat for fans of standout horror filmmaking.
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Oct 24, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Some episodes are more effective than others. “The Outside” (Wednesday) has a kind of “Don’t Worry Darling” vibe, with a better payoff. It’s genuinely memorable. Not so much with “Dreams of the Witch House” (Thursday), which, despite a game performance by Rupert Grint of “Harry Potter” fame, is borderline campy in its execution. On balance, though, this is a suitably grisly and nightmarish feast for fans of the sinister and the supernatural.
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Oct 31, 2022
Season 1 Review:
With contributions from horror luminaries such as Ana Lily Armipour (A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night), the visionary Panos Cosmatos (Mandy) and Jennifer Kent (The Babadook), and stars like Dan Stevens and F. Murray Abraham, there’s a good deal of hope that the series might transcend its conventional presentation and predictability to offer something a little more substantial.
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The TelegraphOct 25, 2022
Season 1 Review:
The production design here is something of a headline draw. These dramas have an enticingly grotty sense of place: you can practically smell the dank recesses of a low-rent storage facility in the first episode, Lot 36, which was directed by Del Toro’s one-time cinematographer, Guillermo Navarro. ... The pacing is a little off, though. ... The hope with this thus-far-average show is that the peaks are yet to come.
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Oct 24, 2022
Season 1 Review:
These episodes are often provocative — there’s visual imagination to spare, here, generally tending toward the visceral and gross. But there is, too often, a somewhat trite takeaway. It reverses del Toro’s tendency to find the profound within familiar storytelling tropes: Here, we cross dimensions into the world of eldritch only to find fairly simple morals.
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Oct 25, 2022
Season 1 Review:
As a horror maestro and auteur, Guillermo del Toro has earned the right to his moment in the spotlight -- in this case presiding on camera, Alfred Hitchcock style, over "Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities." It's only too bad that this eight-episode Netflix horror anthology lacks the verve of the director's cinematic work, with episodes that feature monstrous special effects but half-baked stories that don't really draw blood.
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Oct 24, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Sadly, while episode directors such as Vincenzo Natali and Catherine Hardwicke (all of whom del Toro makes sure to verbally credit before throwing to their episode) give their assignments unique visual and stylistic flourishes, the tales they’re tasked with executing are often less than the sum of their parts. Too often there’s gore without scares, punishments that aren’t particularly ironic and stories struggling to justify their run time.
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IndieWireOct 25, 2022
Season 1 Review:
When four hours of an eight-hour season range from draining to dreadful, and the other four vary from passable to pretty good, what you’re left with is an average TV experience, at best. In today’s climate, anthology series can’t aim for average; they have to be better.
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