Netflix is set to premiere a new horror anthology Cabinet of Curiosities on 25 October. The first look is out and it looks a very promising thriller.
The show will feature eight separate horror stories, including two original stories from Oscar-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro. You can watch the first look teaser trailer below to get an early sneak peek at the new series.
The series, created by Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro, is based on his short story of the same name.
Cabinet of Curiosities First Look
Guillermo del Toro created the series and serves as co-showrunner with fellow Oscar winner J. Miles Dale (The Shape of Water, Sex/Life).
Along with the new stories from del Toro, the Cabinet of Curiosities series features other creepy stories told by a team of writers and directors personally chosen by the famous filmmaker. He also serves as executive producer alongside Dale and Gary Ungar. Regina Corrado serves as co-executive producer for Cabinet of Curiosities.
American films, television shows and programming in Turkish, German and Korean languages, including their dubbed versions, are emerging as a big draw on over-the-top (OTT) video streaming services, making up as much as 30% of overall viewership, said senior executives at several of these platforms.
While such international content finds ready takers among young urban Indians in the metros, those in small towns benefit from their dubbed versions in both Hindi and regional languages.
Netflix’s Extraction and The Kissing Booth have been popular in Hindi and Tamil as have Amazon’s The Boys, The Tomorrow War, Wonder Woman and Parasite. Walt Disney, too, has decided to tap smaller towns by making Disney+ (including Marvel) content available even on its cheaper price plans in India to expand reach.
While a handful of niche, foreign language TV channels and torrent websites on the Internet had introduced Indians to international content earlier, OTT platforms have helped improve ease of access. While metro audiences are over-saturated with the discovery of such international content on OTT, small towns have recently started acquiring a taste for what may be considered cool, and is part of social media chatter.
Covid has also ensured people are exposed to a lot more things on the phone, given that several large families do not have multiple TV sets.