A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night (2014)

Ana Lily Amirpour's 'A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night' is a tale of a young lad named Arash falling in love with a vampire. I found the film to be quite slow in the sense that when it finished i felt like it had only just begun and that there were a lot more to come of it. However, this being said i did sort of like it and i would have preferred if the film continued a little longer rather than ending it as unexpectedly as they did. Like mentioned before, it felt like the whole 101 minutes was just the beginning introduction to a whole lot more. Arash Marandi plays the character of a boy who's fathers drug addiction and debt weighs on him heavily causing him to try and fix the mess his father is making. Shiela Vand plays the role of a vampire who, unlike cliche vampire films, uses her power to help women who have been disrespected by men. She is basically the head feminist in the 'Bad City' the fictionalised town in Iran. The two meet in an unusual and quite humorous way as Arash is completely spaced out on drugs, but instead of killing him she helps him and they some how end up falling in love. The Film does contain some humorous parts whether they are purposeful or not. I like how the effects of drugs is portrayed throughout the film; his father is suffering from withdrawals as he is forced to go clean from them because of his lack of money. I found the relationship with his father quite heartbreaking as he tries his best to help him with his addiction and his debt but his father chooses drugs over his son. Considering the film is labelled as a horror i found it in no way scary or even creepy but more of a love story, the only thing that could make it less of a romance and more of a horror is the way in which the girl follows her targets around, slowing tracking them like a shadow. Perhaps modern day vampire movies have just ruined the idea of vampires being scary for me because unless she some home came out the screen i don't think i would be falling off my seat or covering my eyes whilst watching this.