Just when you think the vampire genre has been exhausted a new film, A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night (2014), breathes new life into the overexposed genre. The director Ana Lily Amirpour has created a stylish and exotic film in which Los Angeles and Iran have been combined to create a noirish world known as Bad City, where drugs, hookers, oil, and urban blight populate this imagined world. Amirpour has style and it is exuded here in the choice of the vintage car that Arash (Arash Marandi) drives to the fact that the hijab wearing vampire, known as the girl in the credits (Shelia Vand) skates. The black and white cinematography employed by Lyle Vincent helps create the norish mood of Bad City. It draws to mind comparisons with Jim Jarmusch, who released his own stylish and moody vampire film, Only Lovers Left Alive in 2014 as well. The atmosphere is also supported by imaginative and appropriate music cues and soundtrack choices. It is an audacious debut and a welcome addition to the vampire genre.
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