Set in the dilapidated, dangerous and derelict Bad City, this adaptation of Ana Lily Amirpour’s own graphic novel sees two lonely, messed up souls find each other in a town where nobody seems to notice or care about the dead bodies that are mysteriously piling up.
The black and white presentation manages to utilize the light and shadow in a way most films with a full colour palette cannot. Both the mumblecore dialogue and scorching soundtrack are reminiscent of recent stone cold classics such as Drive but this isn’t just student film night bait. Throughout the movie there’s a prevailing sense that what you’re watching is a director truly coming into their own. This is German Expressionist cinema meets Spaghetti Western, lurking in the same crypt as Let The Right One In and Only Lovers Left Alive.
Once the credits roll and you exit the theatre, A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night clings to you. A wonderful antidote to Twilight, Dracula Untold and all the other crimes against a sub-genre of Horror that has been staked, resurrected and staked again repeatedly for over a century.
A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night opens in the UK on 22nd May.
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (Persian: دختری در شب تنها به خانه میرود Dokhtari dar šab tanhâ be xâne miravad) is a 2014 Persian-language American vampire western film directed by Ana Lily Amirpour. Tagged as “The first Iranian vampire Western”, it was chosen to show in the “Next” program at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival.
The film is described as being set in “the Iranian ghost-town Bad City” and depicts the doings of “a lonesome vampire”.
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