Guillermo Del Toro's Excellent "Nightmare Alley" is now streaming on Hulu and HBO Max

Awesome! Will check it out soon!

been waiting for this

Yes, don’t miss this movie, absolutely fantastic! But, if you’ve never seen the original it’s a must watch. Probably my all time favorite noir film. Do yourself a favor and watch both!

Thanks for the heads up. That was a good movie.

I couldn't understand why Paul Anderson would take a role like Geek #1.

Very good movie.

Great movie. I had never come across Theo original. All aspects were great, imo.

Hadn’t seen the original, but really enjoyed this movie.

I love the original. Saw it last year on TCM, when they had Guillermo Del Toro & his co-screen writer on the 2021 movie, Kim Morgan, hosting a night of Noir. Loved it, and watched it again when TCM showed it on a Saturday night a couple of weeks ago. It has become my favorite Tyrone Power movie over Blood & Sand, The Razor's Edge, Witness for the Prosecution, and the Rawhide movie. He was one of those actors that is great in the movies he really wanted to make. He wanted this one bad enough to buy the rights to the novel, and then had to persuade a reluctant Darryl Zanuck and 20th Century Fox to go ahead with the film.

TCM article on Nightmare Alley (1947)

Watched the 2021 film last night. It's a beautifully shot movie. The colors, especially the footage shot at night, are spectacular. Even the interior shots were great. The office of Cate Blanchett, who plays a psychiatrist that helps him scam people, is probably the most beautiful office you'll ever see.



Architectural Digest took notice of it!

The story is tight, and kept me thinking, and rethinking, what kind of damage he would do to the people around him. Having seen the original, I knew this one might be different, but you could see bad things coming. Definitely a really good watch. I'd recommend the 1947 movie too.


TCM shows a Noir movie at 11 pm Central time every Saturday.

I didn't even know there was an original so I just went in blind. Anything to do with carnivals and eerieness like this I'm automatically into, and this movie was hypnotizing in how it looked. But I kept feeling like it was a messed up VHS that keeps jumping forward a couple of minutes. Bradley Cooper's character went from lowly carny to luxurious lounge act so fast I felt like I missed something, and he was so practiced and artificial the whole movie I was just like eh whatever at his emotional ending. All the characters were that way. I'm sure it's supposed to be that way but it was hard for me to get sucked in by the characters when none of them had a personality

for me (haven't seen the original; didn't know there was one) it draaaaaaaggged.

I predicted the ending as soon as I saw him at the homeless camp.

The shrinks office was stunning and I was surprised at her involvement with him overall, and at the end.

I vote this movie a turd.