A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT Trailer

Touting itself as the first Iranian vampire Western, VICE Films has released a new trailer for the festival hit A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, which looks equal parts beautiful and unnerving. Written and directed by Ana Lily Amirpour, this black and white piece of pulp fiction looks to hit every note for something I simply must see.

VICE Films and Kino Lorber will be releasing A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night in New York and Los Angeles November 21st, with a larger national expansion to follow.

Strange things are afoot in Bad City. The Iranian ghost town, home to prostitutes, junkies, pimps and other sordid souls, is a bastion of depravity and hopelessness where a lonely vampire stalks its most unsavory inhabitants.

Cinema’s first Iranian vampire western, Ana Lily Amirpour’s debut feature basks in the sheer pleasure of pulp. A joyful mash-up of genre, archetype, and iconography, its prolific influences span spaghetti westerns, graphic novels, horror films, and the Iranian New Wave. Amped by a mix of Iranian rock, techno, and Morricone-inspired riffs, its airy, anamorphic, black-and-white aesthetic and artfully drawn-out scenes combine the simmering tension of Sergio Leone with the weird surrealism of David Lynch.