Cabinet of Curiosities Episode 6 Review | Dreams in the Witch House 

I was so looking forward to a faithful adaptation, but this was very disappointing. The sets and special effects (with the exception of Brown Jenkin, who looked pretty good, though nowhere near threatening enough) were reminiscent of a Frank Oz production. As far as the story went, instead of mad geometry, fever dreams of the abduction and sacrifice of innocents, ancient extra dimensional aliens, otherworldly artifacts and a visit to the the black throne of the demon sultan Azathoth, we got a light weight side story about the protagonist's sister (though at least we least we did get Jenkin.) In summary this offering misinterpreted the source material and lacked the bravery of vision required to portray the more sweeping and fantastical elements that have made Lovecraft's cult tale such an enduring classic. 4/10

At first I wasn’t sure how Rupert was doing but the farther it goes the more I was super impressed with his acting abilities. Very nice. Again you are correct with the whole rat thing. Very odd. I just finished the next episode and i can’t wait for you to do it.

HAVE YOU READ THE STORY. THIS WAS F'N TERRIBLE >

To me it was the best so far. Story line was ok. Definitely invested.

Was the rat face man a ghost at the start? Was the rat with a human face born that way? If not, why the heck didn’t he come back as a human?! Ok, what? Was the rat ever human? I guess not because he came back as a rat with a human face . Also, how in the heck does he reanimate and control the dead body?! HOW? Magic? The rat is a necromancer?! Is the rat using non magic puppet work? If so, explain that. What the hell is going on? So dumb. No explanation or reasoning at all through the whole episode. It was trash form the start.

So bad. I dont know if I can make it thru the remaining episodes

Just as the previous episode, it was a terrible adaptation, but still a good episode. They changed the plot and I don't know why. The plot was already rich and amazing. Maybe they changed it because they already added a child's death to the Pickman's Model story and didn't want to do that twice in a row? I also don't understand why the reversed Brown Jenkin's name. It seemed like just another "adaptation" that took a few things from the original story and then rewrote it. I was really looking forward to the two Lovecraft adaptations because nobody seems to be able to do them correctly. Dagon (which was actually an adaptation of The Shadow over Innsmouth) and the 2005 Call of Cthulhu movie that was done in the silent movie style were the only really decent adaptations. Dagon wasn't exact, but the changes were okay because the plot and the feel and imagery were spot on. So, while this episode was well acted and visually impressive, it's not Dreams in the Witch House. They used the witch, the house and Brown Jenkin in a completely different story. Literally. So, for that, I'm very disappointed with it.

I thought the nun reminded me of Whoopi Goldberg in Sister Act--that there was something naughty inside her despite the vestments. So when she said "Get the Fuck out of my church", yes it was Whoopi inside her talking. I agree that the rat was silly, and the episode should have ended with the wicked witch dissolving after the witch house fell on her, and with just her leg sticking out.

Absolutely horrible interpretation of an amazing story. The little girls acting was beyond bad and how they managed to get Brown Jenkins name wrong is beyond me. Its like they were trying to screw it up. Skip this, watch the "masters of horror" version from 2005

Ron what happened. Hahah

The worst episode of the whole season. An insult to HP Lovecraft's work.

My third favorite. Autopsy still the best then 2nd Alo glo man episode lol

Sorry I didn't believe him at all. Found I was so distracted, I started a Sudoku game! Weakest episode so far. Just couldn't get into it!

Honestly the ending really confused and disappointed me.

Is Thunderpants Rupert’s superior performance??

Drugs are bad Mkay ... 😂😂😂

This the first episode I hated, its truly terrible, no atmosphere, bad acting, laughable CGI at points, all in all a total shit show. 0 Stars.

Fun fact: nobody was burned at the stake in Salem.

The Dreams in the Witch House was written in January/February 1932 and first published in the July 1933 issue of Weird Tales and is a CLASSIC short story by H.P. Lovecraft. CLASSIC implies that it does not need to be "improved" by a lesser author. Whatever this miscarriaged, aborted, distorted aberration of the original story is truly a "Thing That Should Not Be." There have been multiple film adaptations to HPL's work over the decades and to be honest they have been overall disappointing. I thought Lovecraft Country had potential but that turned out to be a woke/white man bad nightmare. When I saw Guillermo del Toro was going to do HPL work I said "Finally, someone who can give HPL stories justice." While enjoying GDT visual effects the story was shit. What is is with people today thinking that it is ok to stray from the original source material, destroy it utterly and still call it by the original title? The most current example is Amazon's Rings of Power debacle. I encourage everyone who is disappointed with this story to let everyone know on social media, write Netflix, the author's website etc etc. Maybe if enough voices are raised that people will pay attention to the fans

This episode was horrible