1x03 The Autopsy

My favorite so far. Mystery, sci-Fi along with the gore. Good dialogue, excellent acting, atmospheric sets and nice camera work.

very creepy and atmospheric... decent story concept and execution

Worst episode by far. Wasn’t even horror, just a mess of a story with no resolution and abrupt ending. Start was promising but went nowhere. Give this one a miss. 1/10.

The Autopsy of Jane Doe meets The Thing. Practical effects at their best it looked amazing and realistic. Turned my stomach a few times. Great atmosphere, great story and an interesting character. Loved the outcome of the autopsy and what it turned out to be. Truly memorable! Best episode so far.

This was really good. Starts slow yet intriguing, then you sort of get hypnotized throughout the autopsy session... but thankfully you reach credits scene and you snap out of it.

for a moment there I felt really trapped... phew :grin:

Guillermo del Toro grants us another look into his Cabinet of Curiosities, this time for an atmospheric mystery story. The Sheriff (Glynn Turman) asks the seasoned medical examiner, Carl Winters (F. Murray Abraham), to perform an autopsy on a number of miners who perished in an explosion. The lawman was in pursuit of a murder suspect who fled to the mine. The cop turns to his friend Winters for assistance, since he thinks there may be more going on here than just a simple bomb. The autopsy itself is presented in great detail. Incredible practical effects are employed, just like in the previous episode. F. Murray Abraham plays his role convincingly with a mixture of curiosity and resignation. The actual resolution of the mystery is a bit of a letdown. But everything else is incredibly riveting. I particularly enjoyed the last few minutes.

Best episode of the season.

First I have to admit that I love the niche subgenre of unraveling the story (be it mystery or strange fantastic things) through the discoveries of an autopsy. That is something that allows for great narrative pacing and surprises, while not having been done enough to become a cliché.

And this one does not disappoint. Once again the whole episode is carried by one actor, and like in the previous episodes, he does a great job.

A great concept, and a greater ending with a very heroic sacrifice. Not only does he quickly understand the threat, he also find a way to neutralize it and has the courage to go through with it.

i LOVED this episode, it was by far my favorite in the whole series! the performance by the lead guy performing the autopsy was wonderful. the ending revealed something straight out of my nightmares!

The absolute terror I felt watching this. I never want to watch it again

I loved this one. I was more disturbed than scared.
From the foreshadowing shots to the opening of the bodies, it looked really good and the acting was great.

I'm currently reading the Animorphs series so I supposed that added to my enjoyment of this episode.

The relationship and conversation during the first half of The Autopsy was very enjoyable and the story idea of a murder mystery coupled with an alien parasite was definitely attractive. But this whole thing turned into a non-scary gross-out.

I do love Del Toro's introductions to each episode and the way that he acknowledges the director, as well.

Superb!

The imagery with the spider catching things in its web – fantastic.
The end was hard to watch, the body horror was real.

Best episode so far. The Doctor was brilliant. :thumbsup_tone1:

This is my favorite one so far. Great story, amazing performance by F. Murray.

Out of the episodes in the Cabinet of Curiosities series, this is by far the best one. Body horror at its finest. The makeup and practical effects of the autopsy itself look so realistic I question if they used an actual body with flesh and organs inside.

I’m interested in watching ‘The Empty Man’ by director David Prior.

The buildup is a little slow, but the writing and direction are on a whole different level than the first two episodes. It takes old-school horror tropes and effectively brings them to 2022. I thought I was used to extreme violence and gore, but the tone was so dry and realistic that it almost made me puke during the autopsy sequences.

F Murray Abraham is the GOAT

[Netflix] It offers what is expected of an anthology like this, especially under the vision of Guillermo del Toro. The most macabre and gory story of the series, it also explores aspects of parasitism, and achieves a very faithful version of the excellent horror story that Michael Shea published in 1980. It has that taste for the creepy that mixes with the visceras of the table autopsy, reminiscent of the novel "Who goes there?" (1938) by John W. Campbell that was the basis for the film "The thing" (John Carpenter, 1982). Written by David S. Goyer, the same writer of the new version of "Hellraiser" (2022), but David Prior manages to go further in the bloody representation than David Bruckner dared.

For me, the payoff didn't live up to the build up. Still a good hour of television, though.