Nightmare Alley

Movie • 2021  

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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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Does the dog die?
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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 a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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Is an animal sad?
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Is there bestiality?
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Is rape mentioned?
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Are rabbits harmed?
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Is there body horror?
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Abuse
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Sid
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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Is someone stalked?
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Is a child abused?
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It is not shown, but talked about.
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AnimalLover42
1hr 53m.
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Addiction
Is there addiction?
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Cmeissrun
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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Cmeissrun
At least one person drinks themselves to death.
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Sid
The geeks are drugged with morphine. Everyone smokes cigarettes
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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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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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Man graphically bites a chickens head off. It’s really quite awful.
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Does a cat die?
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Does a pet die?
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Does a dragon die?
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Are there spiders?
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JackSullivan
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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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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Are there bugs?
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JackSullivan
There is briefly a giant spider with a woman’s head.
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Assault
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Sid
The main character may have been sexually abused as a child
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Is someone restrained?
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Bodily Harm
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Jmergel4
Man Hit by car then ran over
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bananareen
It is mentioned and implied but not shown
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Cmeissrun
Yes and the aftermath is shown pretty graphically.
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Someone dead is burnt
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Liam2000
It’s not teeth it’s glass
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Is someone buried alive?
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Is there cannibalism?
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Sid
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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Anonymous
Only towards the very end
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DoveLavender
There is a brief non-fatal asphyxiation scene.
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gooddoggo
A man's arm is very broken after he gets hit by a car
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Is someone tortured?
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Jan3
A man is held against his will in a cage without food, water, or access to proper hygiene.
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Is there amputation?
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pinklemonade
An ear gets blown up after is shot with a gun
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Liam2000
False comment above he pulls glass out of his hand
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Does someone fall to their death?
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Is there shaving/cutting?
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Does someone have a seizure?
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Is there a hanging?
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Children
Is an infant abducted?
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Does a kid die?
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DoveLavender
There are several taxidermy fetuses.
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Disability
Is the r-slur used?
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Family
Does a parent die?
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pinklemonade
Stan kills his dad and then burns his dead body
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Does someone cheat?
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Sid
Stan cheats on Molly with Lilith
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Is a child's toy destroyed?
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Is someone kidnapped?
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Fear
Are there clowns?
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Is someone possessed?
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Sid
Bath scene that is also sexual
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Are there ghosts?
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Raffarin
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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Are there jump scares?
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Gross
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Raffarin
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 "pissed himself".
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Does someone vomit?
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Is there audio gore?
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Sid
Fighting sounds, crackling electricity, sounds of someone biting a head off a chicken
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Does someone spit?
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Large-scale Violence
Are there 9/11 depictions?
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
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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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Medical
Is there a mental institution scene?
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Not therapy but the visuals may be triggering
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Are needles/syringes used?
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Sid
The injured geek is left outside a hospital in the rain
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Someone is shown dying of an unspecified illness.
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Mental Health
Is there autism specific abuse?
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Is there body dysmorphia?
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
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Raffarin
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 suffer from PTSD?
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Is there misophonia?
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notgoingtoaddcomments
Nothing that triggered mine, but I did happen to notice that there was a lot of lip smacking.
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JackSullivan
A character kills themselves graphically onscreen.
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Are there anxiety attacks?
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Sid
The geek is kept in a cage
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Noxious
Does a baby cry?
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Is there shakey cam?
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JackSullivan
There’s several performances of the “Electra” sideshow stunt as well as several flashbacks done via fleeting images.
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Paranoia
Is the fourth wall broken?
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Pregnancy
Is a baby stillborn?
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Brenna
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 abortions?
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Greyshadow
A forced termination is mentioned.
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Is there childbirth?
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Marfanan
The woman died years before the events of the film, but the circumstances are talked about at length.
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malovela
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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Marfanan
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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Prejudice
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Does the black guy die first?
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Are there fat jokes?
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Are there homophobic slurs?
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Does an LGBT person die?
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Sid
The whole “freak show” thing
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Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
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Are there usages of the n-word?
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Is there hate speech?
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Sex
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notgoingtoaddcomments
Pretty light. Making out, brief male nudity, discussions.
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Are there nude scenes?
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Sickness
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malovela
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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malovela
Yes, more than one person are as "classically homeless" as it gets, with all the misery it entails.
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Spoiler
Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
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Sid
Stan is reduced to almost less than human due to his own actions
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Vehicular
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Cmeissrun
Graphically shown.
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Does a car crash?
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Does a car honk or tires screech?
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Does a plane crash?
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malovela
There are no flying scenes.
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Violence
Is there a nuclear explosion?
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Does someone drown?
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Is there blood/gore?
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malovela
There's blood from a chicken being bitten to death rather early on in the movie. Other than that, the blood and gore stuff is near the end. Graphically shown bashed-in face and more.
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Sid
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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