The film, in Persian, mixes a lot of pop-culture influences into something truly original.

There's occult power beneath the veil – and cinematic potency beneath the pristine cool of Ana Lily Amirpour's sinuous vampire movie, says Soph...

Ana Lily Amirpour’s “A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night” is the first Iranian vampire spaghetti western art movie.

The lady is a vamp...

Ana Lily Amirpour's debut feature -- a black-and-white vampire film -- stars a Farsi-speaking cast that includes Sheila Vand, Arash Marandi and Dominic Rains.

(15) Ana Lily Amirpour, 99 mins. Starring: Sheila Vand, Arash Marandi, Marshall Manesh

Sundance Review: You've Never Seen a Vampire Movie Like the Beautiful, Touching 'A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night,' Produced By Elijah Wood

Here's a different kind of meet-cute: She's a real-life (real-death?) vampire, he's a mere mortal dressed as Dracula, fake fangs and cowl. They're at a costu...

A vampire is such a handy creature for filmmakers in search of a metaphor or two.

It’s not every day you can use the phrase “Iranian vampire western,” but that’s the best way to describe this surreal black-and-white film. The movie...

A Persian-speaking, chador-wearing vampire is the main character in Ana Lily Amirpour’s “A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night.”

In what's probably the first Iranian-language feminist vampire film, a mysterious young woman who exacts undead vengeance on misbehaving men meets a nice boy...

Some of the images sit there unmoving for too long, but that very same stasis also helps create and enforce the underlying tension, the tormented space betwe...

Iranian writer-director Ana Lily Amirpour makes her debut with a striking black-and-white vampire movie about a female vamp who stalks the ...

The black and white feature is Ana Lily Amirpour’s debut film

"Middle Eastern feminist vampire romance" is likely to remain an underpopulated cinematic subgenre, but at least it now has a luminous standard-bearer in “...

Is Ana Lily Amirpour’s movie the most original film of the year, or the most familiar?