Nightmare Alley
Movie • 2021 • Crime
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An ambitious carnival man with a talent for manipulating people with a few well-chosen words hooks up with a female psychologist who is even more dangerous than he is.
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Were animals harmed in the making?
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I looked it up and found how they did it on https://humanehollywood.org/production/nightmare-alley/.
No real chickens were harmed. It was a robot chicken.
No real chickens were harmed. It was a robot chicken.
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Does a non-human character die?
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Yes, a chicken.
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Abuse
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1hr 53m.
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It is not shown, but talked about.
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Is someone gaslighted?
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Lilith gaslights Stan and when she reveals that she has betrayed him she tries to make him think he has gone insane
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Addiction
Is there addiction?
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The carnival geeks are alcoholics that have basically been forced into that life by their addiction. One is even given morphine added to their alcohol to make them more dependent (not shown but discussed).
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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At least one person drinks themselves to death.
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The geeks are drugged with morphine. Everyone smokes cigarettes
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Are there snakes?
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Around 5 min in, when they go to see the beast man, it’s on the ground when they show the chicken
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A chicken is beheaded
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Are animals abused?
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First scene at the carnival, the ‘beast man’ traps and decapitates a chicken by biting its neck. Very unpleasant and bloody.
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Is there a dead animal?
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Man graphically bites a chickens head off. It’s really quite awful.
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Are there bugs?
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There is briefly a giant spider with a woman’s head.
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Are there spiders?
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The film briefly shows the traditional sideshow “Spidora” act, featuring a gaffed spider with a woman’s head. Several large banners depicting this act also appear in the background.
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Assault
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The main character may have been sexually abused as a child
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Bodily Harm
Is there eye mutilation?
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General face mutilation. A woman also shoots herself in the eye but the camera cuts away as she pulls the trigger
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Is there excessive gore?
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Only towards the very end
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Does a head get squashed?
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Yes and the aftermath is shown pretty graphically.
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Are any teeth damaged?
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False comment above he pulls glass out of his hand
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Is someone tortured?
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A man is held against his will in a cage without food, water, or access to proper hygiene.
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Does someone break a bone?
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A man's arm is very broken after he gets hit by a car
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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It’s not teeth it’s glass
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Is there amputation?
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An ear gets blown up after is shot with a gun
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
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It is mentioned and implied but not shown
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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There is a brief non-fatal asphyxiation scene.
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Is someone burned alive?
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Someone dead is burnt
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Is someone crushed to death?
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Man Hit by car then ran over
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Children
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There are several taxidermy fetuses.
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Disability
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Family
Does a parent die?
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Stan kills his dad and then burns his dead body
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Does someone cheat?
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Stan cheats on Molly with Lilith
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Fear
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There’s a sudden and unexpected gunshot in one scene
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Are there ghosts?
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There are no actual ghosts but the main character pretends that he can connect with dead people as a scam. SPOILER His girlfriend is also dressing up as the dead wife of a man they are scamming.
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Is there a shower scene?
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Bath scene that is also sexual
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Gross
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SPOILER At the end of the movie the main character is homeless and while he's looking for work, someone mentions that he stinks like he p****d himself".
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Is there audio gore?
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Fighting sounds, crackling electricity, sounds of someone biting a head off a chicken
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Large-scale Violence
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Law Enforcement
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A cop briefly asks a women if they are alright, indicating they might care about a human life.
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Is electro-therapy used?
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Not therapy but the visuals may be triggering
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Does someone have cancer?
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Someone is shown dying of an unspecified illness.
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Is there a hospital scene?
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The injured geek is left outside a hospital in the rain
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Is there a mental institution scene?
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No but there is a psychologist office.
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SPOILER The main character pretends that he can speak with the dead son of an old woman, telling her that he is now happy and glad that they will soon be reunited. Later in the movie, she decides to shoot her husband and then shoots herself in the eye. I personally found the scene pretty graphic and abrupt.
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Does someone attempt suicide?
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A character kills themselves graphically onscreen.
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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The geek is kept in a cage
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Is there misophonia?
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Nothing that triggered mine, but I did happen to notice that there was a lot of lip smacking.
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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There’s several performances of the “Electra” sideshow stunt as well as several flashbacks done via fleeting images.
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Paranoia
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Pregnancy
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The event is never shown on screen, but one character (also never introduced on screen) was forced to miscarry years before the events of the film. There is also a collection of unborn fetuses kept by one of the carnies.
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Does a pregnant person die?
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The woman died years before the events of the film, but the circumstances are talked about at length.
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Are there abortions?
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A forced termination is mentioned.
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Is a baby stillborn?
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The carnie who owns all the jarred fetuses mentions that some were stillborn. They never actually show the baby being born that way, though.
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Are there babies or unborn children?
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Yes, and a baby with deformities kept in formaldehyde, which we've seen several times throughout the movie, is shown VERY close up during the end credits. Like, in extreme detail.
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
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The whole “freak show” thing
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There is mention of WW2 but not many details
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Sex
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Is there sexual content?
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Pretty light. Making out, brief male nudity, discussions.
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Sickness
Does someone have a chronic illness?
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In flashbacks we see an old man who's bedridden (and so weak as to be fatally defenseless), but we don't know what's wrong with him. It may be simply weakness from old age.
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Social
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Yes, more than one person are as "classically homeless" as it gets, with all the misery it entails.
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Spoiler
Does it have a sad ending?
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Stan is reduced to almost less than human due to his own actions
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Vehicular
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Very gory and graphic. You see everything, twice. Happens within the last 40 mins of the film. You’ll be able to know when it’s about to happen, so it’s fair warning, however it doesn’t cut away at all.
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Does a plane crash?
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There are no flying scenes.
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Violence
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Lilith carries a small pistol in her handbag and at one point she uses it to shoot Stan in the ear. Stan is shot at by Grindle’s bodyguard. There is also a murder-suicide by gunshot
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Is there blood/gore?
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Very gory/graphic. All more or less happens within about the last hour of the film. Not much/any in the first half.
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