This past class we watched “A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night”. I
absolutely loved this film. This film really ties into the idea of the new
weird because it delves into a new idea for a vampire movie and branches
outside of the typical horror flick. The movie is completely in Persian but it
has English subtitles, the setting of the film is never said throughout the
movie, it’s only referred to as Bad Town. The reason I enjoyed this movie so
much is because I fell in love with the two main characters, especially the
vampire girl. In the movie you learn a lot about the two main characters, the
girl is a vampire, she appreciates indie rock bands, loves to dance, wears
heavy eyeliner, and kills evil men. You could say she is a feminist type of
vampire. In the film she kills a drug lord and later she kills the 2nd
main character’s father. Arash is the second main character in this movie, he stumbles
upon the vampire at a party where he is completely wasted. After he meets her
their love story begins. The story line really interested me because they
didn’t make the vampire completely evil or completely good but you fell in love
with her anyway. The director gave the evil monster of this movie emotions and
hobbies. That made the viewer go “oh so she isn’t a crazy blood sucker she
listens to rock music on a record player”. On a side note the cinematography in
this movie was incredible, every shot was so well done, props to Lyle Vincent
for shooting it.
A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night is
a really good example of where horror is going. People are getting tired of
cliché bloody and jump scare horror movies. We want new quirk and creepy
stories, we need something that we aren’t going to see coming. I can really see
this happening with modern day horror, with this movie did you really expect to
see a feminist vampire that falls in love at the end with a boy whose father
she killed? Cause I didn’t see that one coming. American horror story is another
example of horror going into a new direction, Ryan murphy really focuses on
building a new story and building suspense that the viewer is clinging onto.
Modern day horror is embracing background stories and the new weird.
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