20 Awesome Horror Movies NOBODY Talks About
6. A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
Ana Lily Amirpour's feature debut A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night serves as quite the remarkably audacious coming-out party, given that it's a black-and-white Farsi-language vampire Western. Say you've seen one of those before.
Amirpour's film takes place in an Iranian ghost town where a lonesome vampire (Sheila Vand) goes about her business, and while the basic beats of the story may seem familiar to most, the setting, style, and tone ensure it's anything but.
Sheila Vand is outstanding in the enigmatic lead role, while Amirpour's filmmaking shirks many of the subgenre's most tired instincts, throwing in some surprisingly tender romance alongside banger songs - especially White Lies' "Death" - absolutely ravishing monochrome cinematography, and even skateboarding.
This is all to say that you've seen vampire films before but never one like this, which embraces its cultural specificity and proudly wears its low-budget conception on its sleeve.