It’s been billed as the world’s first Iranian vampire Western, a summary that doesn’t quite do British-born, and Cali-raised director Ana Lily Amirpour’s first film justice. For A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night is much more than that. It looks and feels different, with its genre-hopping, rockabilly style shot in black and white with English subtitles.
Then the story takes the trad vampire tropes and gives them contemporary edge, as it follows an unnamed female who, in between dancing to 80s new wave music and sporting an impressive cape, takes time out to sink her teeth into local trash. The film’s out 22 May, you can read i-D’s interview with its director here, its star here, and see the new UK trailer and poster (above) exclusively here.