A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night Teaser Meet Iran S First Vampire Western

‘A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night’ Teaser: Meet Iran’s First Vampire Western

By Russ Fischer/Jan. 10, 2014 6:00 am EST

As things tend to go in Iranian film, we don’t hear about a lot of westerns, and probably fewer films that involve vampires. So when the claim can be made that A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night is the first Iranian vampire western, and one directed by a woman, to boot, there’s plenty reason to be curious. The film is Ana Lily Amirpour’s debut as a director, and will premiere at the Sundance Film Festival later this month.

Oh, and the film comes from SpectreVision, which is the relatively new genre-oriented company created by Elijah Wood, Daniel Noah and Josh C. Waller. Check out a brief teaser and a striking poster, below.

That super-brief footage makes me think of a horror-tinged triangulation of Lynch, Maddin, and Jarmusch. It’s really too brief a tease, but it does leave me wanting to see more. A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night has its premiere showing on January 19 at Sundance. Indiewire had the teaser. AICN offers up the poster; that link will also lead you to a page or two of a related comic book. Strange things are afoot in Bad City. The Iranian ghost town, home to prostitutes, junkies, pimps and other sordid souls, is a bastion of depravity and hopelessness where a lonely vampire stalks its most unsavory inhabitants. But when boy meets girl, an unusual love story begins to blossom… blood red.

‘A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night’ Teaser: Meet Iran’s First Vampire Western

By Russ Fischer/Jan. 10, 2014 6:00 am EST

As things tend to go in Iranian film, we don’t hear about a lot of westerns, and probably fewer films that involve vampires. So when the claim can be made that A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night is the first Iranian vampire western, and one directed by a woman, to boot, there’s plenty reason to be curious. The film is Ana Lily Amirpour’s debut as a director, and will premiere at the Sundance Film Festival later this month.

Oh, and the film comes from SpectreVision, which is the relatively new genre-oriented company created by Elijah Wood, Daniel Noah and Josh C. Waller. Check out a brief teaser and a striking poster, below.

That super-brief footage makes me think of a horror-tinged triangulation of Lynch, Maddin, and Jarmusch. It’s really too brief a tease, but it does leave me wanting to see more. A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night has its premiere showing on January 19 at Sundance. Indiewire had the teaser. AICN offers up the poster; that link will also lead you to a page or two of a related comic book. Strange things are afoot in Bad City. The Iranian ghost town, home to prostitutes, junkies, pimps and other sordid souls, is a bastion of depravity and hopelessness where a lonely vampire stalks its most unsavory inhabitants. But when boy meets girl, an unusual love story begins to blossom… blood red.

Oh, and the film comes from SpectreVision, which is the relatively new genre-oriented company created by Elijah Wood, Daniel Noah and Josh C. Waller.

Check out a brief teaser and a striking poster, below.

That super-brief footage makes me think of a horror-tinged triangulation of Lynch, Maddin, and Jarmusch. It’s really too brief a tease, but it does leave me wanting to see more.

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night has its premiere showing on January 19 at Sundance. Indiewire had the teaser. AICN offers up the poster; that link will also lead you to a page or two of a related comic book.