Nightmare Alley (2021) on Netflix
In 1939 Stan Carlisle sets a house on fire and walks into a traveling carnival. Clem keeps him on, and Stan learns the clairvoyant act of Madame Zeena and her husband Pete.
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- Rotten Tomatoes81%
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Plot summary
In 1939 Stan Carlisle sets a house on fire and walks into a traveling carnival. He sees a geek show where a deranged man eats a live chicken. The carnival's strongman offers him a night's job. Clem, the owner, convinces him to stay and work with Madame Zeena, the clairvoyant, and her husband Pete. Zeena and Pete teach him cold reading tricks and warn him never to pretend to speak to the dead. Stan learns that Clem supplies his geeks with opium-laced alcohol. He courts Molly, a fellow performer, who refuses to leave the carnival with him.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Nightmare Alley (2021)
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- Guillermo del Toro personally shut down production of Nightmare Alley in March 2020, a week before the industry did during the COVID-19 pandemic, and later said nobody in the cast or crew got coronavirus.
- Leonardo DiCaprio entered negotiations to star in April 2019, but by June 2019 Bradley Cooper was in early negotiations to replace him in the lead role.
- Guillermo del Toro moved production to Buffalo, New York, in February 2020, drawn by its architecture and unfamiliarity, and scenes at Niagara Square and City Hall used fake snow, to the crew's surprise, because Buffalo is known for heavy winter snowfall.
- Guillermo del Toro said roughly 45% of the film had been shot when production was shut down; he spent the hiatus editing footage and wrote an 80-page safety precaution guideline for when shooting resumed.
