Disney and Fox Searchlight present the teaser trailer for. Nightmare Alley, the crime thriller featuring Oscar winner Guillermo Del Toro (The Shape of Water - The Shape of Water) as director.
Nightmare Alley will debut in Italian theaters starting January 27, 2022. The film is the film adaptation of the novel of the same name written in 1946 by William Lindsay Gresham, a literary work previously transposed for film by Edmund Goulding with The Fair of Illusions (1947).
Written by Guillermo Del Toro himself in collaboration with Kim Morgan, Nightmare Alley brings together a stellar cast that includes Bradley Cooper (Next Stop: Hell), Willem Dafoe (The Lighthouse), Toni Collette (Hereditary - The Roots of Evil), David Strathairn (The Assassin's Web), Rooney Mara (Nightmare - 2010), Michael Shannon (Bug - Paranoia is Contagious), Richard Jenkins (Wolf - The Beast is Out), Ron Perlman (Hellboy) and Mark Povinelli.
The story's protagonist is an ambitious young con man with great manipulative skills who befriends an equally corrupt and untrustworthy psychiatrist. The two become partners and join forces to con people for money but the woman ends up deceiving her colleague as well.
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