Nightmare Alley
Movie • 2021
ReportAn 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.
This movie contains 43 potentially triggering events.
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Does someone attempt suicide?
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AnimalLover42
1hr 53m.
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Is someone gaslighted?
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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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It is not shown, but talked about.
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Addiction
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Sid
The geeks are drugged with morphine. Everyone smokes cigarettes
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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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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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Cmeissrun
At least one person drinks themselves to death.
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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 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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The main character may have been sexually abused as a child
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Bodily Harm
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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 crushed to death?
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Jmergel4
Man Hit by car then ran over
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Is someone burned alive?
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Someone dead is burnt
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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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Does a head get squashed?
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Cmeissrun
Yes and the aftermath is shown pretty graphically.
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
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bananareen
It is mentioned and implied but not shown
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Does someone break a bone?
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gooddoggo
A man's arm is very broken after he gets hit by a car
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Are any teeth damaged?
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Liam2000
False comment above he pulls glass out of his hand
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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 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 eye mutilation?
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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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Is there excessive gore?
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Anonymous
Only towards the very end
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Children
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Does a kid die?
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DoveLavender
There are several taxidermy fetuses.
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Disability
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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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Stan cheats on Molly with Lilith
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Fear
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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Is there a shower scene?
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Bath scene that is also sexual
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Gross
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Does someone wet/soil themselves?
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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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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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Large-scale Violence
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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 electro-therapy used?
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Not therapy but the visuals may be triggering
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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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Does someone have cancer?
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notgoingtoaddcomments
Someone is shown dying of an unspecified illness.
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Mental Health
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JackSullivan
A character kills themselves graphically onscreen.
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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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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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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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Noxious
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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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
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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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Does someone miscarry?
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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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Are there babies or unborn children?
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The ones in jars
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Are there abortions?
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Greyshadow
A forced termination is mentioned.
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Does a pregnant person die?
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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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Prejudice
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
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Sid
The whole “freak show” thing
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Sex
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Is there sexual content?
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notgoingtoaddcomments
Pretty light. Making out, brief male nudity, discussions.
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Sickness
Does someone have a chronic illness?
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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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Is someone homeless?
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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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Does it have a sad ending?
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Sid
Stan is reduced to almost less than human due to his own actions
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Does a plane crash?
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malovela
There are no flying scenes.
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Is someone hit by a car?
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Cmeissrun
Graphically shown.
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Violence
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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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Is there gun violence?
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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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