Film: Del Toro creates another dark world of his own
Nightmare Alley is a nicely spooky neo-noir from the Mexican master
Nightmare Alley
Directed by Guillermo del Toro
Nationwide, 16
Rating: ****
Mass
Directed by Fran Kranz
IFI, no cert
Rating: ***
“Never do a spook show,” someone warns early on in Guillermo del Toro’s adaptation of Nightmare Alley, set among the haves and the have-nots at the tail end of the Great Depression. “No good comes out of a spook show.”
William Lindsay Gresham’s cult 1946 novel was first filmed by British journeyman Edmund Goulding ...