25 Incredibly Well-Made Horror Films Directed By Women

2. Ana Lily Amirpour - A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night (2014)

For centuries, vampires have provided handy metaphors for social and physical dilemma, but in the stylishly muted deadpan romance A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night, the threat is personal. Writer-director Ana Lily Amirpour's stunning debut, produced by Elijah Wood, follows the experiences of a small Iranian town haunted by a vampiric presence who's just as lonely as the other locals. If you're a fan of the vampire genre, A Girl Walks Home is a dream come true. Recent, inferior vamp properties like Twilight and NBC€™s Dracula were soullessly manufactured and disposable, overseen by corporations to satiate audiences who couldn€™t care less about ingenuity. This film has none of that interference Overall, this film refuses to fit into any particular box. Arthouse Western? Sure. Feminist comic-book movie blended with social realism? Why not? Tender, sexy-as-hell romance? Definitely. Somehow, the disparate parts all meld together beautifully, thanks to pitch-perfect performances from its cast and Amirpour€™s immediately assured direction, resulting in one of the most striking horror films in recent history.