Searchlight Pictures has released the first teaser for Academy Award-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro’s upcoming noir thriller Nightmare Alley, debuting in theaters on Friday, December 17.
Based on William Lindsay Gresham’s novel of the same name, Nightmare Alley follows “an ambitious young carny with a talent for manipulating people with a few well-chosen words [who] hooks up with a female psychiatrist who is even more dangerous than he is,” according to the synopsis.
The movie stars Oscar nominee Bradley Cooper (A Star is Born) as Stanton Carlisle, multi-award winning-actresses Cate Blanchett (The Aviator) as Dr. Lilith Ritter, Toni Collette (Hereditary) as Zeena, and Rooney Mara (Carol) as Molly, along with Oscar-nominee Willem Dafoe (The Lighthouse) as Clem Hoately, Ron Perlman (Hellboy) as Bruno, Mark Povinelli (Water for Elephants), David Strathairn (Billions) as Pete, Richard Jenkins (The Shape of Water) as Ezra, and Holt McCallany (Mindhunter) as Anderson.
Nightmare Alley is directed by del Toro from a screenplay he co-wrote with Kim Morgan.