It’s easy to say that at the tail end of 2021, there were few movies as eagerly anticipated as Guillermo del Toro’s Nightmare Alley. The maestro of monsters took on the lofty job of molding the second feature-length adaptation of William Lindsay Gresham’s 1946 novel of the same name and did so with a star-studded cast. Not only were audiences stoked to see the likes of Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, and Toni Collette all starring alongside one another in a weird psychothriller that — for the most part — took place at a carnival, but they were also excited to see what del Toro had up his sleeve style-wise.