5 For: Nightmare Alley (2021)
Step right up for five tales of trickery, karma, and carnival deceit.
From silent-era psychics to freak-show morality plays and a little Japanese horror for good measure, the Machine pulls five films that echo Nightmare Alley’s twisted sense of fate.
WHAT YOU’LL HEAR
Why The Prestige feels like the supernatural version of Nightmare Alley
The morality play and shock of Tod Browning’s Freaks (1932)
How Browning’s earlier The Mystic (1925) pre-figures Stanton Carlisle’s rise and fall
The contrasts between Nightmare Alley (1947) and del Toro’s 2021 remake
A detour into Takashi Miike’s Audition…
The skinny
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