The only scary thing about this H. P. Lovecraft adaptation is Crispin Glover's scene-swallowing old-timey accent. 'Pickman's Model (2022)' is a real disappointment, a mostly meek and aesthetically inconsequential entry in 'Guillermo Del Toro's Cabinet Of Curiosities (2022)'. It tells the tale of a man who meets a fellow artist and is struck by the disturbing nature of his work, which seems to have an even more impactful effect on everyone else who lays eyes on it. One of the major issues with the piece is that none of these paintings, which are supposed to be so obscenely unsettling that they could literally drive you to gouge your eyes out, are even remotely frightening or uncanny. They depict the most genetically gruesome subjects in the most genetically grungy way and would've been far more effective had they been kept off screen. Another issue is that it's never quite clear exactly what it is they're doing, whether they're simply so distressing they lead to madness or they're brainwashing those who view them into serving some greater supernatural purpose. It's also unclear as to the role that both the eponymous painter and his equally eponymous model play in the devastation their art causes. The protagonist is mostly uninteresting and the plot just doesn't give him much to do other than gawk at illustrations and go a little mad sometimes (as we all do). The piece just plods along at its own somewhat laboured pace, never really getting out of second gear despite some fleeting instances of fairly assured scares and decently convincing gore. It's not bad, per say, but it certainly isn't good. It's the weakest effort in the cabinet so far.