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A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night

  • 20142014
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  • 1h 41m
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6.9/10
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A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014)
In the Iranian ghost-town Bad City, a place that reeks of death and loneliness, the townspeople are unaware they are being stalked by a lonesome vampire.
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In the Iranian ghost-town Bad City, a place that reeks of death and loneliness, the townspeople are unaware they are being stalked by a lonesome vampire.In the Iranian ghost-town Bad City, a place that reeks of death and loneliness, the townspeople are unaware they are being stalked by a lonesome vampire.In the Iranian ghost-town Bad City, a place that reeks of death and loneliness, the townspeople are unaware they are being stalked by a lonesome vampire.
IMDb RATING
6.9/10
36K
YOUR RATING
    • Ana Lily Amirpour
    • Ana Lily Amirpour
  • Stars
    • Sheila Vand
    • Arash Marandi
    • Marshall Manesh
    • Ana Lily Amirpour
    • Ana Lily Amirpour
  • Stars
    • Sheila Vand
    • Arash Marandi
    • Marshall Manesh
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 154User reviews
    • 311Critic reviews
    • 81Metascore
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    Sheila Vand and Arash Marandi in A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014)
    Mozhan Marnò in A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014)
    Dominic Rains and Sheila Vand in A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014)
    Sheila Vand and Arash Marandi in A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014)
    Dominic Rains and Masuka The Cat in A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014)
    Arash Marandi in A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014)
    Rome Shadanloo and Ana Lily Amirpour in A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014)
    Arash Marandi in A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014)
    Mozhan Marnò and Sheila Vand in A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014)
    Arash Marandi, Milad Eghbali, and Masuka The Cat in A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014)
    Sheila Vand and Arash Marandi in A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014)
    Rome Shadanloo and Ana Lily Amirpour in A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014)

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    Sheila Vand
    Sheila Vand
    • The Girl
    Arash Marandi
    Arash Marandi
    • Arash
    Marshall Manesh
    Marshall Manesh
    • Hossein 'The Junkie'
    Mozhan Marnò
    Mozhan Marnò
    • Atti 'The Prostitute'
    Dominic Rains
    Dominic Rains
    • Saeed 'The Pimp'
    Rome Shadanloo
    Rome Shadanloo
    • Shaydah 'The Princess'
    Milad Eghbali
    • The Street Urchin
    Reza Sixo Safai
    Reza Sixo Safai
    • Rockabilly
    Ray Haratian
    Ray Haratian
    • The Boss 'Commercil'
    Ana Lily Amirpour
    Ana Lily Amirpour
    • Skeleton Partygirl
    Pej Vahdat
    Pej Vahdat
    • DJ Porno
    Masuka The Cat
    • The Cat
    • (as Masuka)
    Maruti Garikiparthi
    • Marcus
    • (as Maruti Gariki)
    Caitlin Reza
    • The girl
      • Ana Lily Amirpour
      • Ana Lily Amirpour
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    • Trivia
      Director Ana Lily Amirpour, who bears a somewhat similar resemblance to Sheila Vand (The Girl) actually performed the skateboarding sequences in the film for the the long shots. Amirpour is a lifelong skateboarder.
    • Goofs
      When the girl is pushing Arash home on the skateboard, the clicking of the wheels do not match the passage of the wheels over the sidewalk cracks.
    • Quotes

      The Girl: I'm bad.

    • Connections
      Featured in WatchMojo: Top 10 Best Indie Horror Films (2017)
    • Soundtracks
      Charkesh E Pooch (Routine of Sorrow)
      Written by Arash Sobhani (as Arash Seyed Sobhani)

      Performed by Kiosk

    User reviews154

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    8/10
    Moody Iranian vampire film
    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. 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. But as virtually everyone who studies film has pointed at the stylistic similarity, she's taking it as a compliment.

    Like Jarmusch's work, the movie is shot in atmospheric black and white - and it works beautifully. The dialogue is all Persian (Farsi) - even though the movie was shot in America, standing in for Iran - and is subsequently sub-titled. 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.

    So, it's a horror movie. 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. The events exist within a kind of imagined Iranian underworld of pimps, hookers, drug dealers and street urchins. 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.

    Aside 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.

    Any criticism of this movie (though it's more praised than not) seems to center around it being "style over substance" and "too slowly paced". 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.
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    • Release date
      • April 20, 2015 (United States)
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      • Persian
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    • Filming locations
      • Bakersfield, California, USA
    • Production companies
      • Say Ahh Productions
      • SpectreVision
      • Logan Pictures
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    • 1 hour 41 minutes
      • Black and White

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