It was filmed in the USA but set in Iran and the cast speak Farsi.Ī Girl Walks Home Alone at Night is shot in black and white to give it a gritty but also an arty look. Reviewed by Prismark10 2 / 10 Fangs for the memoriesĪna Lily Amirpour wrote and directed film. Well, it is moody, that's for sure - and maybe too slow for many of today's horror fans, that's true - but there's no arguing that its greatest strength is its style. Our vampire watches this dark town, at times slowly riding a skateboard down the street! When she interacts with people, she is unblinking, mostly un-verbal, and seems to be at all times appraising their circumstances and their worth.Īside from the beautiful blocking shots and photography, a high point of the film is its use of sound effects, music (which sometimes references Morricone-like spaghetti westerns) and an impressive soundtrack of mostly modern pop music.Īny criticism of this movie (though it's more praised than not) seems to center around it being 'style over substance' and 'too slowly paced'. The events exist within a kind of imagined Iranian underworld of pimps, hookers, drug dealers and street urchins. It's principal character is a Persian woman vampire - who stalks the town, robed in a black chador, which is quite an unsettling shadow to behold standing 10 feet away from a potential victim late at night. However, this does not work against the film (whose strength is its visuals) at all, as the dialogue is at all times minimal and slow, thus making the reading easy and unobstructive to the fascinating camera work.

The dialogue is all Persian (Farsi) - even though the movie was shot in America, standing in for Iran - and is subsequently sub-titled. Like Jarmusch's work, the movie is shot in atmospheric black and white - and it works beautifully. But as virtually everyone who studies film has pointed at the stylistic similarity, she's taking it as a compliment. Interestingly, in an interview between her and legendary producer/director Roger Corman on the DVD extras, she claims she's not much of a fan of Jarmusch. Set in an oil industry ghost town-like city in Iran, this movie, directed by newcomer Ana Lily Amirpour - an American of Iranian descent - is highly reminiscent of Jim Jarmusch's early style. Reviewed by AlsExGal 8 / 10 Moody Iranian vampire film

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