Halloween Film Screening: A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night

When: Mon 31 October 2016 19:15-21:15
Where: Room 116, 1st Floor, Main Building, SOAS

**Please note that seating is unfortunately limited to around 35 seats.**

To coincide with Halloween we'll be screening an Iranian-American suspense horror film, 'A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night'.

Event on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/335409943480586/

Trailer:

 

Language: Persian (English subtitles)
Run Time: 101 minutes

Synopsis: Strange things are afoot in Bad City. The Iranian ghost town - home to prostitutes, junkies, pimps and other sordid souls – is a place that reeks of death and hopelessness, where a lonely vampire is stalking the town’s most unsavoury inhabitants. But when boy meets girl, an unusual love story begins to blossom…blood red.

DVD description: The first Iranian Vampire Western, Ana Lily Amirpour's debut feature, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night 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 surrealism of David Lynch.

SOAS Iranian Society