Nightmare Alley (2021) | Guillermo del Toro and Bradley Cooper Geek Out
Guillermo del Toro’s Nightmare Alley (2021) set out to dazzle audiences with a lush film-noir vision of ambition, deceit, and carnival grit, so why did it vanish almost as quickly as it arrived? Truman Capps and Landen Celano climb into the Machine to find out how a star-studded prestige remake could be both immaculate and strangely unmemorable.
A remake of the 1947 noir classic, Nightmare Alley follows con-man Stanton Carlisle as he rises from sideshow hustler to high-society psychic, weaving a fatal web of greed and lies. Directed by Guillermo del Toro and starring Bradley Cooper, Cate…
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