Nightmare Detour (How del Toro's Version of "Nightmare Alley" Doesn't Quite Get Us There)
Having long been familiar with Edmund Goulding's original 1947 Nightmare Alley, and recently read William Lindsay Gresham's original 1946 novel, my reaction to Guillermo del Toro's recent remake is nonplussed disappointment. I didn't hate it to the degree that I did such things as Burlesque, Oz The Great and Powerful, or The Greatest Showman, all […]