| Cast |
Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Toni Collette, Willem Dafoe, Richard Jenkins, Rooney Mara, Ron Perlman |
| Director |
Guillermo del Toro |
| Screenplay | Guillermo del Toro, Kim Morgan, from the novel by William Lindsay Gresham |
| Music | Nathan Johnson |
| Cinematography | Dan Laustsen |
| Editing | Cam McLauchlin |
| Sound formats | Dolby Digital |
| Soundtrack | Available |
| SA distributor | Filmfinity |
| Made in | 2021 |
| Produced by | Fox Searchlight Pictures, Double Dare You, Searchlight Pictures, TSG Entertainment |
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| Genre | Crime, drama |
| Language | None (sic) |
| Nudity | None |
| Sex | None |
| Violence | None (sic) |
| Prejudice | None |
| Blasphemy | None |
| Drug abuse | None (sic) |
| Comments | Contains scenes with criminal techniques. |
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| R: Restricted | Rated R for strong/bloody violence, some sexual content, nudity and language |
| Runtime | 150 |
| USA version is usually but not always the same as South African release. Versions released on streaming or DVD, Blu-ray or Video may also differ. | |
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| Frightening / Tense Scenes |
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| Suggested age limit 16 + |
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| Scale (Max) | 20 |  |
What the Critics say | ||
| Metacritic.com 44 critics | 14 |  |
| Rottentomatoes critics 245 critics | 15 | |
| Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer  While it may not hit quite as hard as the original, Guillermo del Toro’s Nightmare Alley is a modern noir thriller with a pleasantly pulpy spin. | 16 | |
| CommonSenseMedia Jeffrey M. Anderson Dark, brutal psychological terror from Guillermo Del Toro. | 10 |  |
What the People say | ||
| Metacritic.com users 37 users | 14 | |
| Rottentomatoes users 500+ users | 13 |  |
| Rottentomatoes popcornmeter Popcornmeter | 13 | |
| IMDB 6418 Netizens | 15 | |
| The Movie DB Community | 15 | |
Average .. 69% | 14 | |