Guillermo del Toro psychological thriller Nightmare Alley starring Cate Blanchett and Bradley Cooper has released its first trailer.
Based on William Lindsay Gresham’s 1946 novel of the same name, Nightmare Alley follows Stan Carlisle (Cooper), a carney who excels at manipulating people with a few words, who meets psychiatrist Dr. Lilith Ritter, who’s even more dangerous.
Also starring in the film are Willem Dafoe, Toni Collette, Richard Jenkins, Ron Perlman, Rooney Mara, Holt McCallany, Tim Blake Nelson, Mary Steenburgen, David Strathairn, Clifton Collins Jr., Jim Beaver, Mark Povinelli, David Hewlett, Romina Power, and Paul Anderson.
Del Toro and Kim Morgan wrote the movie and J. Miles Dale produced with del Toro.
This marks del Toro’s first time behind the camera since 2018’s The Shape of Water, for which he won Oscars for Best Picture and Best Director. Nightmare Alley is a departure from his normal works as there are no supernatural elements.
“Now is the first chance I have to do a real underbelly of society type of movie,” del Toro told Collider in 2019. “[There are] no supernatural elements. Just a straight, really dark story.”
The film is being released in theaters on December 17. Check out the trailer below.
