#Graveyard Rats

[lavalamprat]

Full 360° of one of my best models I've done

[life-love-geekculture]

None of the eight episodes for Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities fails to be entertaining, but they’re all entertaining for wildly different reasons. For some, it’s simply the cast being balls-to-the-walls awesome (“Lot 36” & “Graveyard Rats” come to mind). Some are legitimately just scream into the abyss horror (“The Outside” being the greatest female body horror short ever, and no I will not be taking questions). You’ve got some that are just gut punches because you want so badly for things to actually work out for the main character (hello, “Pickman’s Model”). And at least one good del Toro ghost story (“The Murmuring”).

Then you have whatever the fuck “The Autopsy” is which might be my favorite.

[rebelumbrella46]

Gabinet of Curiosities Episodes Rank (personal opinion)

I enjoy both the works of Guillermo del Toro and the horror/thriller genre.

And the first thing I have to say... is that GoC is not like Netflix's Haunting Series... Haunting of Hill House and Bly Manor are masterpieces compared to the simplicity of Cabinet of Curiosity... however, I think that simplicity was what each episode wanted to achieve... and although I was always left unsatisfied by the end, I still enjoyed most of the episodes... while other episodes I ended up feeling like I had wasted my time...

So to rank them from my least favorite to favorite

8. The Viewing

This is the episode that disappointed me the most, the premise was really good, but the episode was too slow and the action only happened at the end, none of the characters actually call my attention and i didn’t care if one of them was eventually going to die... when I was finally getting interested in the plot, the episode was over and all the monster/alien thing it was more disgusting than terrifying.

7. Lot 36

Great way to start a series. The setup was good, and the conclusion was even better...the part where the monster chases him through the corridors is great...the feeling of not being able to escape...it really made me want to watch more episodes.

6. The Graveyard Rats

I loved the period-time in which it was set. The whole plot taking place in the tunnels gave me a lot of suffocation, the feeling of being trapped. The ending has a very good message.

5. The Outside

It wasn't the scariest but its plot entertained me, I cared about the characters, it has a great message. And the plot kept escalating and escalating without disappointing at the end

4. Dreams in the Witch House

Classic story of a witch and a curse, but the characters were good, the witch design was scary. The story behind the twins made me root for them, and the tragic ending was a nice change.

 3. The Murmuring

Also a classic haunted house story but very interesting, I liked the story behind the ghosts, I cared about the story of the main characters, it had beautiful visuals and messages... it had a very good conclusion and it was a great way to end the series, especially after the disappointment that was episode 7.

2. Pickman’s model

Interesting story, by far the most disturbing. Was for me the one that I built the best, it felt like a whole movie with a great background, a good plot and then the conclusion. It didn’t feel rush or cut short. 

1. The Autopsy 

Where do i even begin? It was my personal favorite, it had me all the time on the edge of my seat. The ending was great. The storyline was very unique. I could easily watch a movie with the same plot. 

[dearorpheus]

the second ep of cabinet of curiosities was made for me actually because i looooove rats i love pestilential rats i love sylvatic plagues i love the flesh eating pandyssian bull rats of dishonored i love the seething masses in a plague tale i love drinking and subsuming them in vampyr i love chittering amorphous swarms of rats and i think we need more of them in media. lovecraft’s rats in the walls, poe’s pit and the pendulum, camus’ plague. room 101 in 1984. 1922 nosferatu which has the pale and withered—plague-victim-esque—titular vamp arriving by ship with an army of rats which disembark and begin besieging the village... rats as portents of death, vessels for disease, vehicles for divine judgement, deeply imbued with our cultural fears. and rat kings are like those elk whose antlers intertwine irrevocably and who become fattened with knowledge of each other having been forced to contemplate one another until death (djuna barnes’ words not mine). they interanimate, they become conjoined, a something rather than many things, and they are fattened with horrible knowledge in doing so. which to me is also grotesquely godly (as all godly things ought to be grotesque). nebulous boundaries and monstrous understanding are at the heart of godhood. to me

i love them as metaphor i love them as single organism and aggregate whole i love them chaotically good or bad and also. they’re god's smiting palm. to me 

[smallgraygames]

Let it be Pulp

I've been watching this Cabinet of Curiosities show from Guillermo del Toro, and I particularly liked the second episode, "Graveyard Rats." It was simple and straight-forward pulp horror, the kind of thing that it seems like the show wants to be, and fully delivered on that level. Kind of goofy, kind of spooky, with monsters and stuff.

I glanced at some reviews after I was done, and one complaint I kept seeing about the episode was that it was too simple. It wasn't putting a new spin on the genre, wasn't giving you anything beyond what you expected. It kind of rubbed me the wrong way, because it didn't seem to me that the episode had any intention of doing that. How can you complain about pulp horror being what pulp horror is?

If it set out to do something and failed, that'd be worth criticizing, but so often reviews seem to fall into this trap. I see it in game reviews constantly: "this didn't build on the genre in any meaningful way," with no argument made for why that was something the game should've done. It feels like a strange assumption to make, almost like some kind of unconscious carry-over from the basic mechanisms of capitalism that insist on continuous growth for survival.

Not everything has to reinvent the genre. A straight-forward entry in a well-established genre is a perfectly valid thing to be. It's called "Graveyard Rats," so I went into it hoping to see, at a minimum, a graveyard and some rats. I was not disappointed.

[hausofsaturn]

Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities, episodes 1-8 (2022)

[gothsonparade]

I love rats, and I especially love them in horror movies. They’ll be like-‘the horrible rats ate her alive!’ and it’s like some plump pet rat who is just chilling next to the props. Well-fed and affectionate and people are screaming like it’s Micheal Myers. Rats are the best. Look at these two from Wishmaster 3: Beyond the Gates of Hell. Two bros chilling.

[taffysdemon]

No other social media platform can compare to tumbler and no one can convince me otherwise because every other platform when you post something like “I’m not worth the air that I’m using” you either get “but your so blessed” or “people died for what you have” and an occasional half hearted reply from an old friend of “I’m here if you need to talk”

And then there’s tumbler with a complete stranger saying “when I feel like I’m taking up to much space I draw gay rats chilling in a cup of mild Italian wedding soup so I feel like I’ve earned my right to exist for the next 48 hours”

[lavalamprat]

Haven't painted much lately but had a fun idea for a base and went to Walmart for a slug and a tech dech

[lestcat-de-lioncourt]

erryon cancelled on me for the “outing”, didn’t invite many purely because so many live far away and I’d be met with rejection anyway, n family did as well rip, but then one of my friends who looks like some kind of blonde pirate and their cute dog turned up for a bit an got me a Terry’s chocolate cupcake and himself a toblerone one, as his birthday is tomorrow so we had a coffee and chocolate muffins ahaa.

Sagittarius timee~ I then went to a graveyard by myself totally untouched snow rested since a few days ago. It’s full of energy, if you get it? You get it. Really good. Like there’s another place I’ve needed to pee bc of disability problems I’ve changed my own in the corner of that graveyard with pads n whatever so it’s got my respect. It happens.

ℑ 𝔨𝔫𝔬𝔴 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔩𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱 𝔤𝔯𝔬𝔴𝔰 𝔡𝔞𝔯𝔨𝔢𝔯 𝔡𝔬𝔴𝔫 𝔟𝔢𝔩𝔬𝔴

𝔅𝔲𝔱 𝔦𝔫 𝔶𝔬𝔲𝔯 𝔢𝔶𝔢𝔰 𝔦𝔱'𝔰 𝔤𝔬𝔫𝔢 𝔟𝔢𝔣𝔬𝔯𝔢 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔨𝔫𝔬𝔴

𝔗𝔥𝔦𝔰 𝔦𝔰 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔪𝔬𝔪𝔢𝔫𝔱 𝔬𝔣 𝔧𝔲𝔰𝔱 𝔩𝔢𝔱𝔱𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔤𝔬

𝔖𝔥𝔢 𝔰𝔞𝔦𝔡, 𝔦𝔣 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔥𝔞𝔡 𝔩𝔦𝔣𝔢 𝔢𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔫𝔞𝔩

ℭ𝔞𝔫 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔥𝔢𝔞𝔯 𝔪𝔢 𝔰𝔞𝔶 𝔶𝔬𝔲𝔯 𝔫𝔞𝔪𝔢 𝔣𝔬𝔯𝔢𝔳𝔢𝔯?

ℭ𝔞𝔫 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔰𝔢𝔢 𝔪𝔢 𝔩𝔬𝔫𝔤𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔣𝔬𝔯 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔣𝔬𝔯𝔢𝔳𝔢𝔯?

𝔚𝔬𝔲𝔩𝔡 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔩𝔢𝔱 𝔪𝔢 𝔱𝔬𝔲𝔠𝔥 𝔶𝔬𝔲𝔯 𝔰𝔬𝔲𝔩 𝔣𝔬𝔯𝔢𝔳𝔢𝔯?

ℭ𝔞𝔫 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔣𝔢𝔢𝔩 𝔪𝔢 𝔩𝔬𝔫𝔤𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔣𝔬𝔯 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔣𝔬𝔯𝔢𝔳𝔢𝔯, 𝔣𝔬𝔯𝔢𝔳𝔢𝔯?

𝔚𝔢 𝔡𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔢 𝔬𝔫𝔠𝔢 𝔪𝔬𝔯𝔢

ℑ 𝔣𝔢𝔢𝔩 𝔶𝔬𝔲𝔯 𝔥𝔞𝔫𝔡𝔰 𝔞𝔯𝔢 𝔠𝔬𝔩𝔡

𝔚𝔦𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔫 𝔶𝔬𝔲𝔯 𝔥𝔢𝔞𝔯𝔱, 𝔞 𝔰𝔱𝔬𝔯𝔶 𝔱𝔬 𝔟𝔢 𝔱𝔬𝔩𝔡

𝔗𝔥𝔦𝔰 𝔦𝔰 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔪𝔬𝔪𝔢𝔫𝔱 𝔬𝔣 𝔧𝔲𝔰𝔱 𝔩𝔢𝔱𝔱𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔤𝔬

𝔗𝔥𝔦𝔰 𝔦𝔰 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔪𝔬𝔪𝔢𝔫𝔱 𝔬𝔣 𝔧𝔲𝔰𝔱 𝔩𝔢𝔱𝔱𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔤𝔬

[dearorpheus]

i would treat her so right

[hozaloza]

Hey chat

Here's this little piece of information

Do what you want with it.

(LOGAN AND MAVERICK ARE RELATED THEORY??? MOREOVER, MAVEY IS LOGAN'S FATHER????????????GASP)

prob mean Logan's mom is the grandparent's child, since Ricky over here looks nothing like them (from what I can really observe....)

CARAMIA

(I had the idea Maverick lost a lover to the rift or whatever, something along those lines, and oddly enough I imagined her with blondish hair. Now I can cutely change it to Logan's hair color, and boom, theory connects <3)

Just imagine Maverick going to all the kid's rooms to convince em, except Logan, bc he knows he is his son, and just can't bare facing him, not after what happened to his wife.

[mpekamitzii]

ANGIEEE

[clownin44]

Spoilers episode 90

Actually I'm not shutting up abt this and I'm making it abt Ben idc

Ben revealed the most traumatic part of his life to a bunch of strangers because they knew they'd have to work together. AIDEN AND TYLER KEEPING SECRETS should not be allowed. 😡😡 this better be good is all I'm saying!!!