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Nightmare Alley2021

Name: Nightmare Alley
Genre: Psychological, Gothic, Witchcraft & Occult
Released: 2021-12-02
Rating: 7.1

“Man or beast.”

Directed by Guillermo del Toro

7.1

Crypt Score

Blended from 4 sources

IMDb 7.0Rotten Tomatoes 80%Metacritic 70TMDB 7.0

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On the charts

#3·Top Horror Movies of 2021 #23·Top Horror Movies of the 2020s #24·Top Witchcraft & Occult Films

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Year

2021

Runtime

151 min

Box Office

Budget

$60,000,000

Revenue (worldwide)

$39,629,195

Domestic

$11,338,107

🏆 Nominated for 4 Oscars. 29 wins & 121 nominations total

The premise

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.

Horror Vault's take

Set against the shadowy world of 1940s carnival life, Nightmare Alley follows a charming and ruthlessly ambitious drifter who masters the art of reading — and exploiting — people's deepest desires. His gift for manipulation carries him from the freak show midway to the glittering parlors of high society, where the stakes grow far more deadly. When he crosses paths with a dangerously calculating psychiatrist, he may finally have met his match. Guillermo del Toro's neo-noir vision is a lush, slow-burn descent into moral ruin.

Content: Violence, Alcoholism Depicted, Disturbing Imagery, Mature Themes