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Award-winning director Guillermo del Toro’s newest film, Nightmare Alley, has gotten a new trailer. The clip showcases the film’s star-studded cast and teases a mind-bending story involving a psychiatrist and a carny.
Based on the 1946 novel of the same name, Nightmare Alley follows Stan Carlisle, a carnival worker who possesses a penchant for manipulating people. Eventually, he meets the even more psychiatrist Dr. Lilith Ritter, who proves to be his better when it comes to mind games and manipulation. The trailer showcases the result of some of those games, with twists, turns and blood to come from Carlisle’s story.
The film’s first trailer was released in September, showing off Ritter and her attempts to pierce the illusion of Carlisle and expose him as a fraud. Del Toro, known primarily for his more fantastical works, such as The Shape of Water and Pan’s Labyrinth, has previously explained that there will be no supernatural elements in Nightmare Alley.
Speaking with Collider in 2019, del Toro stated, “Well what it is is that book was given to me in 1992 by Ron Perlman before I saw the Tyrone Power movie, and I loved the book. My adaptation that I’ve done with [co-writer] Kim Morgan is not necessarily—the entire book is impossible, it’s a saga. But there are elements that are darker in the book, and it’s the first chance I have—in my short films I wanted to do noir. It was horror and noir. And now is the first chance I have to do a real underbelly of society type of movie. [There are] no supernatural elements. Just a straight, really dark story.”
Based on the novel written by William Lindsay Gresham, Nightmare Alley stars Bradley Cooper as Carlisle, Cate Blanchett as Ritter, Toni Collette as Zeena Krumbein, Willem Dafoe as Clem Hoately and Ron Perlman as Bruno. Also featured in the film are Richard Jenkins, David Strathairn, Jim Beaver, Tim Blake Nelson, Mary Steenburgen, Holt McCallany and Clifton Collins Jr.
Read the official synopsis for Nightmare Alley below:
In NIGHTMARE ALLEY, an ambitious carny (Bradley Cooper) with a talent for manipulating people with a few well-chosen words hooks up with a female psychiatrist (Cate Blanchett) who is even more dangerous than he is.
Nightmare Alley is scheduled to be released in theaters on Dec. 17.
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