Make no mistakes, Guillermo del Toro\u2019s newest is a departure from his standard supernatural fare, dropping his usual horror haunt and instead looking back to the 1940s. Astute students of cinema are likely familiar with the studio-era, Tyrone Power-helmed noir of the same name\u2014a landmark of the genre, standing amongst the likes of\u00a0Detour\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Touch of Evil<\/em>. However, del Toro stakes William Lindsay Gresham\u2019s 1946 novel as the true source material for his\u00a0Nightmare Alley<\/a>. Regardless, all three versions are steeped in shadowy New York underbellies, mistaken identities, con-men, carnies, and clairvoyants and\u2014in the absence of Guillermo del Toro\u2019s signature affinity for ghouls\u2014find that man is the scariest monster of all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Meanwhile, certain Cinema friends among us will be thrilled to know that\u00a0Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time<\/a>\u00a0finally arrives on Friday. Bring a tissue\u2026 and maybe your high-school paperback of\u00a0Breakfast of Champions.<\/em>\u00a0Throughout the week, alternative Christmas classics abound in the leadup to the 25th with shows of\u00a0Die Hard<\/a>,\u00a0Carol<\/a>, and\u00a0It\u2019s a Wonderful Life<\/a>. Finally, stay-tuned for a surprise announcement that should make even the darkest seasons bright. So it goes,<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ted<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hello cinema friends, Despite unseasonably balmy conditions, I assure you the winter season is still on schedule. Fittingly, this Friday we open a snow-swept, pitch-black prestige picture to warm your bones:\u00a0Nightmare Alley.\u00a0 Make no mistakes, Guillermo del Toro\u2019s newest is a departure from his standard supernatural fare, dropping his usual horror haunt and instead looking […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":10638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,53],"tags":[67,138,139,140,141],"class_list":["post-10635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-word-from","category-news1","tag-cinema","tag-genre","tag-guillermo-del-toro","tag-nightmare-alley","tag-noir"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10786,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10635\/revisions\/10786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/001a_NA_02774_R2.max-2000x2000-2-700x467.jpg\")
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