Guillermo del Toro’s deluxe Cabinet of Curiosities will make fanboys (and girls) swoon

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I won’t lie. I love Guillermo del Toro. His body of work is always such visual candy.  So today’s offering comes from BoingBoing, where Richard Kaufman unveils Guillermo del Toro’s deluxe Cabinet of Curiosities! Now I wish I hadn’t spent all my Christmas money. 

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Guillermo del Toro’s deluxe Cabinet of Curiosities will make fanboys (and girls) swoon

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I love Guillermo del Toro: he’s a Renaissance man who makes deeply artful and emotional horror films and revels in his work. What’s not to like? His soul is bottomless as a well and seems to replenish itself from some miraculous underground source. The humanity in his Spanish-language films Cronos, The Devil’s Backbone, and Pan’s Labyrinth plunges right to the heart. His viewpoint as a film maker is unique. His English-language films, on the other hand, have an entirely different sensibility — they’re more pulpy fanboy funhouse. Hellboy and Hellboy II are trippy; Pacific Rim is, well, dreck (sorry about that). Only Crimson Peak, a marvelously lush cinematic 19th century gothic melodrama — a genre extinct for a century — that has strong elements of the supernatural fits comfortably with his Spanish-language films. It was horribly mismarketed by the studio as a horror film, but movies in which the ghosts assist the protagonist are spooky melodramas and not “horror” per se.

If you’re a del Toro fan, have some bucks, and like really cool three-dimensional swag, then let me lead you back to 2013’s Guillermo del Toro Cabinet of Curiosities: Limited Edition. Del Toro knows his fans, and he’s most amiable when it comes to delivering the goods. The regular edition of this book is enjoyable, but it’s the deluxe edition that will have a fanboy (or girl) swooning as it gets unwrapped Christmas morning.

Originally an eye-gouging $750 when first published in December 2013 (and still available from its publisher HarperCollins at that price, this edition sold out at most locations. There are several on eBay ranging from $800 to $1,000.

Read the full post on BoingBoing. I bet if you hunt around you could find this for resale on Amazon for a cheaper price… Unless I beat you to it. : )

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