5 For: Nightmare Alley (2021)

Step right up for five tales of trickery, karma, and carnival deceit.

From silent-era psychics to freak-show morality plays and a little Japanese horror for good measure, the Machine pulls five films that echo Nightmare Alley’s twisted sense of fate.

 

WHAT YOU’LL HEAR

• Why The Prestige feels like the supernatural version of Nightmare Alley

• The morality play and shock of Tod Browning’s Freaks (1932)

• How Browning’s earlier The Mystic (1925) pre-figures Stanton Carlisle’s rise and fall

• The contrasts between Nightmare Alley (1947) and del Toro’s 2021 remake

• A detour into Takashi Miike’s Audition and how manipulation, deception, and karma cross genres

 

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Tags: Nightmare Alley (2021), The Prestige, Freaks 1932, The Mystic 1925, Nightmare Alley 1947, Audition 1999, Guillermo del Toro, Carnival Films, Film Noir