Watch the trailer for Guillermo del Toro’s new movie Nightmare Alley
By Dan Selcke
Guillermo del Toro last movie The Shape of Water won Best Picture at the Oscars…AS IT SHOULD HAVE. His new film is almost here!
The last time Guillermo del Toro put out a movie was in 2017, when The Shape of Water won an Academy Award for Best Picture…as it should have, because it was freaking great. Who would have thought that a story about a mute woman falling in love with a Creature From the Black Lagoon-like fish monster in the 1960s would not only be the best movie of the year, but convince the famously sci-fi-shy Academy voters to agree? But it was, and they did, and I was pretty happy about it.
Whatever del Toro does next, I am there. And what he’s doing next is Nightmare Alley, an adaptation of the 1946 novel by William Lindsay. “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,” reads the synopsis. That’s not a ton to go on, and the trailer doesn’t spell things out, but when del Toro is involved, I don’t need much to get excited.
Watch below!
The trailer is dripping with del Toro’s distinctive rich visuals and dense dark mood, not to mention the excellent cast — in addition to Cooper and Blanchett, we’ve got the likes of Ron Perlman, Willem Dafoe, Rooney Mara and Toni Collette.
I’d like to see the movie now, please and thank you. But we’ll have to wait until Nightmare Alley opens in theaters on December 17.
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