[Article] NIGHTMARE ALLEY - Willem Dafoe, Sideshows & Pickled Babies
In Guillermo del Toro’s latest visual masterpiece, NIGHTMARE ALLEY, charismatic but down-on-his-luck Stanton Carlisle (Bradley Cooper) endears himself to clairvoyant Zeena (Toni Collette) and her has-been mentalist husband Pete (David Strathairn) at a traveling carnival, where he crafts a golden ticket to success using this newly acquired knowledge to grift the wealthy elite of 1940s New York society. With the virtuous Molly (Rooney Mara) loyally by his side, Stanton plots to con a dangerous tyc