Nightmare Alley

Movie • 1947  

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Stanton Carlisle joins a seedy carnival, working with "Mademoiselle Zeena" and her alcoholic husband, Pete.
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Does the dog die?
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Unanswered Triggers
Does a pet die?
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Were animals harmed in the making?
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Is there pedophilia?
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Is a minor sexualized?
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Is an animal abandoned?
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Is there excessive gore?
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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Is rape mentioned?
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Is an animal sad?
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Abuse
Is someone stalked?
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Sweet_Gwendolyn
As I recall, the husband is trying to restrain his wife as he clings to her not to leave him. While that is a form of violence, it isn't violence in terms of hitting.
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Sweet_Gwendolyn
Sort of. A con man deceives his victims, but he isn't trying to make them think they're crazy.
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Is a child abused?
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Addiction
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Is there addiction?
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Sweet_Gwendolyn
Alcohol. One character is an extreme alcoholic at the beginning, and another becomes one at the end.
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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Animal
Does a horse die?
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Does an animal die?
(besides a dog, cat or horse)
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Sweet_Gwendolyn
Sort of. Two live chickens are supposedly eaten on stage in a sideshow by a geek, but it isn't shown.
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Are animals abused?
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Is there a dead animal?
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Does a cat die?
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Does a dragon die?
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Are there spiders?
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Are there snakes?
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Are there bugs?
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Assault
Is someone sexually assaulted?
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Bodily Harm
Is there shaving/cutting?
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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Is there cannibalism?
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Is someone burned alive?
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Is someone buried alive?
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Is there amputation?
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Sweet_Gwendolyn
No, but someone does appear to suffer a head injury, though it's a little unclear. It is when the con artist is discovered and his mark wrestles with him.
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Is there a hanging?
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jbesno
No, but for a second a tarot card is shown of a hung man. It's very abstract tho
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
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The previous comment may be mistakenly about Nightmare Alley (2021)? Nobody is hit by a car in this movie.
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Does someone have a seizure?
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Are any teeth damaged?
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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Is someone tortured?
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Does someone fall to their death?
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Is there eye mutilation?
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Children
Does a kid die?
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Ah
There is however a grieving mother who lost her child in the past
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Family
Does a parent die?
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Ah
Previous comment is about Nightmare Alley (2021)
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Is a child's toy destroyed?
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Is someone kidnapped?
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Does someone cheat?
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Fear
Are there ghosts?
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socratesgonemad
One is faked though
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Are there jump scares?
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Is there a shower scene?
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Are there clowns?
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Sweet_Gwendolyn
Amazingly no considering that it is a circus movie.
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Is someone possessed?
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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Does someone wet/soil themselves?
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Does someone spit?
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Is there audio gore?
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
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Medical
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jbesno
NO BUT, there is a circus act involved with electricity, and an electric chair. It's faked so nothing fatal, but there's one line referring to some muscle pain while performing that act.
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Are needles/syringes used?
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Sweet_Gwendolyn
NO BUT there are several scenes in a very unethical psychiatrist's office and also there are several references regarding sending an alcoholic character off for "a cure" which in those days involved going to a mental institution rather than today's more conventional rehab.
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Is there a hospital scene?
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Does someone have cancer?
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Mental Health
Does someone self harm?
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Sweet_Gwendolyn
YES. The circus's geek performer has a violent freak out near the beginning of the film. At the end, the character who criticized the original geek has become a geek himself and has a violent freak out that mirror's the one at the beginning of the movie. Both are, at a minimum, end stage alcoholics, but both quite clearly have severe mental health problems to the point they are no longer functioning or able to care for themselves.
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Is there autism specific abuse?
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Is there misophonia?
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Sweet_Gwendolyn
Hard yes.
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Is there body dysmorphia?
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jbesno
I would say not, but a human being is put on a cage for multiple scenes. The "claustrophobic" element is not the main focus of those scenes anyways.
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
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There is no suicide in this movie, the other comment is refering to Nightmare Alley (2021). Someone accidentally poisons themself, death is off screen.
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Is there shakey cam?
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Does a baby cry?
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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Pregnancy
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No, previous comment is referring to the 2021 version. That character is also in this movie, but no miscarriage is referred to.
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Is there childbirth?
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Are there abortions?
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Does a pregnant person die?
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Prejudice
Are there homophobic slurs?
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Sweet_Gwendolyn
The circus's geek performer is clearly disabled and being exploited, as is the person who takes his place by the end of the movie. He is more or less being held prisoner by the circus and is paid in alcohol to perform.
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Are there usages of the n-word?
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Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
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Does an LGBT person die?
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Are there fat jokes?
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Sweet_Gwendolyn
No, the film was too racist to have any Black actors at all.
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Is there hate speech?
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hermitcrab
Use of the word "gypsy"
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Sex
Are there incestuous relationships?
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Is there sexual content?
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Spoiler
Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
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Sweet_Gwendolyn
Yes, but you can tell how it's going to end five minutes into the movie, so it's not jarring, it's more meant to be an interesting tale to see how the character winds up the way he does.
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Vehicular
Does a car crash?
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Does a plane crash?
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Nobody is hit by a car in this movie. Somebody is hit by a car in the 2021 Nightmare Alley.
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Violence
Does someone drown?
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Is there blood/gore?
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Other comment is about the 2021 movie. There is no on screen blood in this movie.
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Is there a nuclear explosion?
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Other comment is about the 2021 movie. In this movie there is a gun held for self defense, no guns are shot.
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