Cabinet of Curiosities Episode 6 Ending Explained: “Dreams in the Witch House” What Happens to Walter’s Sister?

This groundbreaking Netflix horror anthology exemplifies all the good that comes from giving directors creative freedom. Thus, Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of curiosities has quickly become one of the streaming giant’s best series in 2022. The two chapters that have been released today have surpassed the previous four, both in production quality and in their dialogues and script.

The sixth episode features a great Rupert Grint as the lead. The former Hogwarts student plays Walter, a man obsessed with the supernatural death of his twin sister when they were little. This traumatic event causes him to have a fixation with the spiritual, eventually joins the Society of Spiritualists.

Cabinet of Curiosities Episode 6 “Dreams in the Witch House”: Summary Plot

Walter Gilman (played by a newfound Rupert Grint, the Ron Weasley of the Harry Potter saga, who here, however, gives in to some exaggeration too much) does not rest. Still shocked by his sister’s death, when they were both children, he spent his life chasing potential mediums who could connect with the afterlife so he could contact and bring her back to life, as he promised her years ago. In the meantime, he has thrown away all his talent and his destiny as a good pianist, letting himself go slowly. The opportunity to recover his sister happens almost by chance, when the story of him and that of the painter cross paths, amid strange opiate solutions. Just getting lost in the delusions of the “magic potions”, Walter will discover that the ghost of his sister is alive and tangible, lost in a forest. The existence of a haunted house, belonging to a hag with great and terrible powers, will push him to try everything and everything to achieve his goal. But the night is dark and terrible within the walls of that dilapidated house.

It is a story that, instead of focusing on the oneiric and delusional side, as one would expect from a story based on Lovecraft, writer of nightmares and indescribable abnormality, releases a gothic romanticism, where horror becomes a simple ingredient to come to terms with themselves and their feelings. Not that this should be considered as a defect (indeed, in its way, it is an interpretation that gives a vision that is typical of the director towards the original story): Dreams in the Witch House works in its first half, thanks to a story that is clear in its development and consistent with the staging, and it does not matter if it is more or less faithful to the literary source.

Cabinet of Curiosities Episode 6: Ending Explained

• By consuming a drug called “liquid gold” he manages to travel to another dimension where he meets the ghost of his sister.
• Despite this, he fails to stay with her and returns to the real world.
• To strengthen the connection, he moves to the witch’s house, a haunted mansion.
• There he enters that parallel dimension again, but he runs into evil entities that want to take advantage of him.

Walter discovers that, because they are twins, he and his sister possess the key to materializing beings from the spirit world. That is why the witch Keziah and her familiar, a man-faced rat named Brown Jenkin, want to take advantage of the portal the brothers have inadvertently created to return to the material plane. The only problem is that to achieve it, they must kill the older brother. This is the last step of the ritual that serves that they can return to life definitively.

What Happens to Walter’s Sister And The Reincarnation Of Brown Jenkin?

After a tough fight with the witch, Walter and his sister manage to finish her off, at which point they think the nightmare is over. Because of this, Epperly decides that her time has come and vanishes, returning to the afterlife. But what no one remembered was that Brown Jenkin, the witch’s familiar, was still alive.

The anthropomorphic rodent takes advantage of a moment of distraction to get inside Walter and finish him off Alien-style. The upshot of all this is that Jenkin has a brand-new body with which he intends to wreak havoc for as long as it lasts before it decomposes. In this regard, he is quite similar to the alien squid from the third episode.