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Under the influence, he becomes disoriented, and ends up lost at night on the street. 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. 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. That it's the first Iranian vampire film is really the only thing going for it when compared to other vampire flicks. It's kind of art-house , although it has a few decent parts.
The Girl pushes him on her skate and takes him to her home. A young rockabilly-looking youngster picks up a cat . It is young Arash, , an Iranian young man.
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She is the perpetrator, not the victim, and possesses agency and power that would not be typically reserved for her in an environment such as Bad City. In this way, the film has feminist leanings. A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night takes place in "the Iranian ghost-town Bad City" and depicts the doings of "a lonesome vampire".
In it's defense though it isn't entirely a horror movie. It is more of a story about being trapped in a bad area where the only way to get anywhere is to leave, and that's easier said than done. All of that is mixed in with plenty of weirdness to create one the best vampire films in years. The film opens with a scene of a vast wasteland, Bad City, populated with oil drilling machines and a palpable sense of being a quasi ghost town. Here, Arash a lonely teenager with a drug addicted father who consistently owes money to a dealer, tries his best to make a living working as a gardener for a rich family. Unknown to him, the city is inhabited by a lonely young vampire whose name we never learn.
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She puts on some music while Arash is still drugged out of his mind and plays with a disco ball. A young woman called Shayday calls Arash in. She looks to be her employer, as Ashar is doing a little gardening. She looks like she has had a nose surgery job and an obnoxious brat. She is on her mobile phone speaking to somebody about going out.
We are usually left with a bloody and shallow horror piece devoid of any real sense of dread and that showcase the filming techniques employed and the environments used. If you like horror films or really anything unique and original that keeps you guessing, then this is a great piece of film that is a refreshing change of pace from most modern horror schlock out there. The Iranian ghost town, home to prostitutes, junkies, pimps, and other sordid souls, is a place that reeks of death and hopelessness, where a lonely vampire is stalking the towns' most unsavory inhabitants. But when boy meets girl, an unusual love story begins to blossom...blood red.The first Iranian Vampire Western, Ana Lily Amirpour's debut feature basks in the sheer pleasure of pulp.
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night review – vampire in a veil stalks Iran
The townspeople are unaware they are being stalked by a lone female vampire. Arash shows up to see what all that racket is about. A bent spoon over a small flame.Drugs are cooking. Hossein tells Atti that he wants to see her.
The Girl jumps to him and feeds on him. When she has finished feeding on him, she stays around some time checking his CD's. Outside, Arash has gone to call on his father's pusher by bicycle, and wants to trade the pair of earrings for his car back. He leaves a message in Saeed's answering machine - which the Girl hears - without knowing that Saeed is already dead. The horror and romance genres have always blended together awkwardly in my opinion.
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It was filmed in Taft, California, in black-and-white. It was chosen to show in the "Next" program at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival. It also reminds me a good deal of Persepolis , Marjane Satrapi’s inspired autobiographical animated movie based on her own graphic novel – about a girl exiled from Iran in Europe. There is just the same feeling of disjuncture, the sense of freedom that is also unmoored and listless. The veil itself, the tall moving triangle of black, makes you look like a cartoon, a squiggle of black on the landscape.
He gives her the earrings he stole, and says that it is pity that she can't wear them. The Girl gives him a safety pinto make a hole in her ears.Arash hits the pin with his lighter and creates the hole. The Girl turns her head around and can't avoid to show her fangs in a reflex act.She controls herself and offers her other ear.
Additionally, Bad City, the fictional location in which the film is set, may perhaps be a nod to Frank Miller's Sin City. An Indiegogo campaign was launched in July 2012 to fund the feature-length version of the film. On August 27, 2012, the campaign's goal of $55,000 was surpassed.
Meanwhile, dressed up as Dracula with a cheap black cape, Arash has gone to a disco costume party. Shirin , wearing skeleton makeup and Atti request Ashar for a pill. She convinces Ashar to take one of the pills. Finally, Arash crosses the line and then stares at the lights while weird looking people around him dance in the dance floor.
She persuades Saeed to take her back to his apartment. While there, she grows long fangs and first bites off his finger, then goes for his neck, killing him. As she leaves, she passes by Arash, who has come to offer the earrings for his car. He finds Saeed dead, and takes back his car keys along with a suitcase of drugs and cash. Arash decides to sell the drugs, allowing him to quit his job working for Shaydah. Later, he goes to a costume party at a night club dressed up as Dracula, where he is persuaded by Shaydah into taking one of the ecstasy pills he is selling.
Artsy fartsy at its "best", nicely filmed and with some interesting choices of music, but with no plot to speak of and several scenes that just keep dragging on. Residents of a worn-down Iranian city encounter a skateboarding vampire who preys on men who disrespect women. Verified reviews are considered more trustworthy by fellow moviegoers. We want to hear what you have to say but need to verify your account.
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Promoted as "The first Iranian vampire Western", it stars Sheila Vand, Arash Marandi, Mozhan Marnò, Marshall Manesh, and Dominic Rains. It was financed in part by a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo. Like Akhavan’s heroine Shirin, Amirpour’s woman has a certain elegant self-possession and a faintly glum calm. One is a heterosexual vampire, the other is a mortal bisexual.
