Nightmare Alley

About Nightmare Alley

An ambitious carnival man with a talent for manipulating people with a few well-chosen words hooks up with a female psychologist who is even more dangerous than he is.

Nightmare Alley is a 2021 crime thriller film directed by Guillermo del Toro. Its themes are alcoholic, violence, fugitive, and carnival.

Bradley Cooper appears as Stanton Carlisle, Cate Blanchett as Dr. Lilith Ritter, Toni Collette as Zeena the Seer, and Willem Dafoe as Clem Hoatley. Released in December 2021, it runs 151 minutes.

The screenplay is by Guillermo del Toro and Kim Morgan. It was produced by Double Dare You and Searchlight Pictures. It is adapted from a novel. It streams on fuboTV, FXNow, and YouTube TV in the United States.

Nightmare Alley, Blade Runner, and Gone Baby Gone make useful companions to Nightmare Alley, all filed under carny. TMDB voters put it at 6.9 out of 10 across 3,540 votes and it carries a R rating.