5 For: Nightmare Alley (2021)

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Step right up for five tales of trickery, karma, and carnival deceit. From silent-era psychics to freak-show morality plays and a little Japanese horror for good measure, the Machine pulls five films that echo Nightmare Alley’s twisted sense of fate. WHAT YOU’LL HEAR Why The Prestige feels like the supernatural version of Nightmare Alley The morality play and shock of Tod Browning’s Freaks (1932) How Browning’s earlier The Mystic (1925) pre-figures Stanton Carlisle’s rise and fall The contrasts between Nightmare Alley (1947) and del Toro’s 2021 remake A detour into Takashi Miike’s Audition and how manipulation, deception, and karma cross genres Want more weird cinema and Machine-fueled chaos? Follow us here: – Support the show on Patreon: https://patreon.com/gruntworkpod – Season watchlist on Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/moviememorypod/ – Visit our website: https://www.moviememorymachine.com Tags: Nightmare Alley (2021), The Prestige, Freaks 1932, The Mystic 1925, Nightmare Alley 1947, Audition 1999, Guillermo del Toro, Carnival Films, Film Noir

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The Machine pulls five films that echo Nightmare Alley’s twisted sense of fate.

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