Interview

Hair/Makeup

How “Nightmare Alley” Hair Designer Cliona Furey & Makeup Designer Jo-Ann MacNeil Made Magic

In Guillermo del Toro’s carnival noir Nightmare Alley, the visionary director eschews the supernatural for a period noir to fantastic effect. The film is set largely at a mid-20th-century second-rate carnival filled with schemers, dreamers, hustlers, weirdos, and femme Fatales, with del Toro acting as our carnival barker (that role in the movie actually belongs ...

By Bryan Abrams  |  January 11, 2022

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Cinematographer Special/Visual Effects

“Nightmare Alley” Cinematographer & VFX Supervisor on Creating Guillermo del Toro’s Carnival Noir

Most of the films coming out now – whether award contenders, tent poles, or any combination thereof – share similar stories apart from whatever genre the movie itself belongs to: namely, the story of the Covid delay, and how it affected production. So it was for Guillermo del Toro’s version of Nightmare Alley, another rendering ...

By Mark London Williams  |  December 17, 2021

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Production Designer

“Nightmare Alley” Production Designer Tamara Deverell on Creating a Carnival of Creepy Delights

Director Guillermo del Toro pulls back the curtain of a 1930s traveling carnival in a love story that gets downright creepy in Nightmare Alley. Bradley Cooper is Stanton Carlisle, a quiet drifter who finds himself working for a carnival to make ends meet. After falling for a fellow carny, Molly (Rooney Mara), who quite literally ...

By Daron James  |  December 15, 2021
“Nightmare Alley” Early Reactions: Guillermo del Toro’s Luminously Dark Noir Shines

The buzz is building for Guillermo del Toro’s Nightmare Alley, the visionary director’s plunge into a world that seems tailor-made for his particular skill set. Set in a mid-20th-century second-rate carnival filled with schemers, dreamers, hustlers, weirdos, and femme Fatales, Del Toro gets to play carnival barker (that role in the movie actually belongs to ...

By The Credits  |  December 3, 2021
“Nightmare Alley” Trailer Reveals Guillermo del Toro’s Star-Studded Horror

Christmas is going to come a little early this year. The official trailer for Guillermo del Toro’s Nightmare Alley has arrived, priming us for the maestro’s latest. The film boasts an insanely talented cast, headlined by Bradley Cooper and Cate Blanchett as a pair of mischievous souls who seem destined to create a nightmare for themselves ...

By The Credits  |  November 18, 2021
First “Nightmare Alley” Trailer Reveals Bradley Cooper & Cate Blanchett in Guillermo del Toro’s Horror

One of our most reliably inventive filmmakers, Guillermo del Toro, has assembled an insanely talented cast for his latest film, Nightmare Alley, and at long last, we have our first look. Searchlight Pictures has revealed the first teaser trailer for the film, which stars Bradley Cooper and Cate Blanchett as a pair of mischievous souls who seem ...

By The Credits  |  September 17, 2021
Production Begins on Guillermo del Toro’s Nightmare Alley With Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett & Rooney Mara

It’s been three years since Guillermo del Toro‘s last film, his Oscar-winning love story The Shape of Water, which won four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director. Now production has begun on his next project, Nightmare Alley, which del Toro and screenwriter Kim Morgan have adapted from William Lindsay Gresham’s novel of the ...

By The Credits  |  January 22, 2020