Guillermo del Toro's 2021 Academy Award-nominated neo-noir psychological thriller Nightmare Alley is officially part of the Criterion Collection, as part of the distributor's October slate of home video releases.
Based on the 1946 novel of the same name by William Lindsay Gresham, Nightmare Alley boasted a stacked cast of Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Toni Collette, Willem Dafoe, Richard Jenkins, Rooney Mara, Ron Perlman, Mary Steenburgen, and David Strathairn, and follows a drifter who joins a carnival in the late 1930s and learns the tricks of mentalism, a performing art that focuses on psychic or intuitive abilities such as telepathy and hypnosis.
Among the special features included on the del Toro-approved 4K UHD and Blu-ray Special Features is a new, extended black-and-white version subtitled of Nightmare Alley titled Vision in Darkness and Light, which was originally released in select cities.
Del Toro's Nightmare Alley joins Edmund Goulding's 1947 adaptation also in the Criterion Collection.
Check out the full list of special features below and pre-order Criterion's Nightmare Alley here for an October 28 release.
- 4K digital master of Nightmare Alley: Vision in Darkness and Light, a new black-and-white extended director’s cut, supervised by director Guillermo del Toro, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
- 4K digital master of the theatrical version of the film, with Dolby Atmos soundtrack
- Two 4K UHD discs of the films presented in Dolby Vision HDR and two Blu-rays with the films and special features
- New audio commentary on the extended director’s cut featuring del Toro
- New documentary on the film’s performances, visual language, costume and production design, and score
- New conversation between del Toro and actor and producer Bradley Cooper
- New conversation between del Toro and coscreenwriter Kim Morgan
- Trailers
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing and English descriptive audio
- PLUS: An essay by crime-fiction and true-crime expert Sarah Weinman
