A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night

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.

AroView: A languid and luscious Iranian immigrant take on the vampire myth set in the ghost-town of Bad City (filmed in California), where the remaining townspeople are unaware they are being stalked by a lonesome vampires.

The black-and-white cinematography and Farsi language gives this a memorable and vital otherworldiness, even if it’s a little too self-consciously infected with the retro-cool of Jim Jarmusch.

“It etches a sweet, sad and solemnly fatalistic love story between feeding times.” ~ Guy Lodge, Variety.