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Title: A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014)
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| Sheila Vand | ... | The Girl | |
| Arash Marandi | ... | Arash | |
| Marshall Manesh | ... | Hossein 'The Junkie' | |
| Mozhan Marnò | ... | Atti 'The Prostitute' | |
| Dominic Rains | ... | Saeed 'The Pimp' | |
| Rome Shadanloo | ... | Shaydah 'The Princess' | |
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Milad Eghbali | ... | The Street Urchin |
| Reza Sixo Safai | ... | Rockabilly | |
| Ray Haratian | ... | The Boss 'Commercil' | |
| Ana Lily Amirpour | ... | Skeleton Partygirl | |
| Pej Vahdat | ... | DJ Porno | |
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Masuka The Cat | ... | The Cat (as Masuka) |
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Maruti Garikiparthi | ... | Marcus (as Maruti Gariki) |
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Caitlin Reza | ... | The girl |
An Iranian Vampire Western, shot in black&white and with a killer soundtrack... it's a love story about two tortured souls in a desolate Iranian Ghost-town called 'Bad City', where a lonely vampire is stalking the towns most depraved denizens. Written by Anonymous
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.