In 2021′s Nightmare Alley, director Guillermo del Toro offers a fresh take on the “monster-fucking” narrative. Rather than starting off as a repulsive creature, the character of Stanton Carlisle, a conventionally attractive rogue who seduces Molly, a pretty, respectable young woman he encounters at the circus, slowly reveals itself to be of a violent, apathetic and ultimately monstruous nature. In this essay I will -














