'Nightmare Alley': Find Out Why the Design of Cate Blanchett's Office Gives a Clue to the Film's Title

A version of this story about “Nightmare Alley” firstappeared in theBelow-the-Line Issueof TheWrap’s awards magazine. Guillermo del Toro's “Nightmare Alley,” like the 1946 novel on which it’s based and a prior 1947 film adaptation, tells one story split into two parts. The first half focuses on a traveling carnival in the late 1930s and the second relocates to the aristocratic and polished - though no less creepy - elite of Buffalo, New York, in 1941. Visually, from the big top tent ...