Last week, on New Year's Eve, I went to my local AMC theater to watch Guillermo del Toro's latest movie, Nightmare Alley...which is a remake of the 1947 Edmund Goulding film of the same name.
I never saw the 1947 version, but what I will say about this iteration of Nightmare Alley is that it's another visually-stunning and expectedly-twisted flick by Guillermo del Toro. If this film gets nominated for an Academy Award, it will most likely be for Best Cinematography.
The cast of Nightmare Alley is stellar—with Bradley Cooper doing an amazing job portraying the manipulative mentalist Stanton Carlisle, Cate Blanchett as the ruthlessly-cunning Dr. Lilith Ritter, Toni Collette as no-nonsense Zeena the Seer, Willem Dafoe as the shady Clem Hoatley, Rooney Mara as the sweet and earnest Molly Cahill, Ron Perlman as the intimidating Bruno and Richard Jenkins as the calm but menacing Ezra Grindle.
I don't think Nightmare Alley will receive the same amount of accolates that del Toro's 2017 Best Picture winner The Shape of Water did during its awards season, but Alley is a beautifully-shot and intense film that shouldn't be overlooked at the theater...especially if you're a fan of del Toro's previous cinematic work (like I am with 2002's Blade 2 and 2013's Pacific Rim). Happy First Monday of 2022.
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