Guillermo Del Toro to Premiere ‘Nightmare Alley’ Extended Black & White Cut in Palm Springs This Weekend

Writer-director Guillermo del Toro and co-writer Kim Morgan will present a never-before-seen extended cut of Nightmare Alley in black -and-white as the closing film at the Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival in Palm Springs, CA, this Sunday, May 11.

“I know Guillermo’s very excited about this,” festival director Alan K. Rode tells Variety. “He and Kim are nice enough to come out and spend some time introducing the film and watching it. I’m honored that he’s coming out to do this, and I’m really looking forward to introducing his black-and-white extended cut from one of our most honored filmmakers. He’s treating it kind of as a premiere, which is very exciting.”

Del Toro and Morgan will be in attendance to participate in a post-screening conversation with Rode. Tickets are on sale now for $32.64.

Based on William Lindsay Gresham‘s 1946 novel of the same name, which was previously adapted into the 1947 film of the same name, Nightmare Alley was released in color in 2021 followed by a brief run in black-and-white subtitled Vision in Darkness and Light. This new version, which del Toro mentioned in December, is extended and remastered.

Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Toni Collette, Willem Dafoe, Richard Jenkins, Rooney Mara, Ron Perlman, Mary Steenburgen, and David Strathairn star in the film, in which an ambitious carny with a talent for manipulating people with a few well-chosen words hooks up with a female psychiatrist who is even more dangerous than he is.

Meagan Navarro wrote in her review, “Nightmare Alley offers psychological thrills in a profoundly haunting and intricately woven rumination on society’s dark underbelly, on the pursuit of success and damnation that might lurk at the end.”