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A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night

2014 • 1h 41m •
Horror Romance
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★ 6.8/10
980 reviews
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A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night

In the Iranian ghost-town Bad City, a place that reeks of death and loneliness, the townspeople are unaware they are being stalked by a lonesome vampire.

"The first Iranian Vampire Western."

Top Billed Cast

Sheila Vand
Sheila Vand
The Girl
Arash Marandi
Arash Marandi
Arash
Marshall Manesh
Marshall Manesh
Hossein 'The Junkie'
Mozhan Navabi
Mozhan Navabi
Atti 'The Prostitute'
Dominic Rains
Dominic Rains
Saeed 'The Pimp'
Rome Shadanloo
Rome Shadanloo
Shaydah 'The Princess'
Milad Eghbali
Milad Eghbali
The Street Urchin
Reza Sixo Safai
Reza Sixo Safai
Rockabilly

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B badelf Verified TMDB Critic
2026-07-16

Summary: 7/10: A stylized, slow-burning vampire Western and feminist revenge fantasy; Sheila Vand's mesmerizing performance and Amirpour's distinctive visual language and sound overcome occasional pacing issues to create something genuinely original.

What happens when you cross a spaghetti western, a graphic novel, Iranian New Wave cinema, and a vampire film, then shoot it in black and white in a California town standing in for a fictional Iranian ghost town called Bad City? You get a genuinely original filmmaking voice.

Ana Lily Amirpour's debut feature, promoted as "the first Iranian v...