A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT interested me because I'd never seen an Iranian film before, let alone an Iranian horror film. I've since discovered that this was actually filmed in California, albeit in Persian language. It's sadly an extremely pretentious, art-house style movie that tells an overly-familiar storyline in an overly-familiar way. The whole 'Iranian' thing is made up in order to draw attention from the critics, otherwise this would have been instantly lost amid a welter of similar imagination-free Z-grade fare.
It's the sort of film that riffs and pays homage to lots of old film genres, with westerns being the most predominant. The crisp black and white photography aside, this is an art-house bore for the most part; the characters might dress in different attire and use a different language, but they're just the same as in a similar Hollywood film. The whole film has a Western look and feel to it so you might as well just be watching a Hollywood movie. A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT has no real character or bite; it merely consists of long, drawn out moody scenes and the occasional bit of blood-letting. I hated it.
It's the sort of film that riffs and pays homage to lots of old film genres, with westerns being the most predominant. The crisp black and white photography aside, this is an art-house bore for the most part; the characters might dress in different attire and use a different language, but they're just the same as in a similar Hollywood film. The whole film has a Western look and feel to it so you might as well just be watching a Hollywood movie. A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT has no real character or bite; it merely consists of long, drawn out moody scenes and the occasional bit of blood-letting. I hated it.