A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night is a 2014 film directed by Iranian-American Ana Lily Amirpour. The film, in black and white, and “Persian” (Farsi?), is a — ready for this — vampire, feminist, spaghetti-western influenced romance, that though filmed in southern CA, takes place in an abandoned Iranian ghost town called Bad City. And the vampire skateboards — after she frightens the good into a young lad who then runs away and abandons it!
While slow at time, it’s remarkably stylistic, with wonderfully evocative music and a classical story of two lonely and out-of-place people — the vampire, and a young James Dean-like hero who uncharacteristically embodies chivalric attitudes towards women.
Yes, it’s as strange as it sounds, but quite remarkable. While a mash up of styles, it manages to be sui generis. Quite worth seeing.