A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014)

I guess this just wasn't my 'thing'. Seems "A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night" is getting quite a bit of praise for being an original take on vampire films and for being "the first Western-Iranian vampire film" - whatever that matters... In actuality, it's just a pretentious, snails-pace 'art house' vamp flick...

An Iranian "Grease" reject encounters a mysterious vampiress who strolls around at night, stalking and chomping the necks of drug dealers and vagabonds. He also has a whacked-out junkie father and a rich chick he works for... Then a she-male dances with a balloon. Then the movie pretty much just ends...

The relationship between the '50s-style kid and the vampire girl isn't explored at all and none of the characters are given any 'dimension', making them all incredibly uninteresting. The black-and-white photography and wide-angle shots may be interesting for film school dweebs, but it's hardly enough to carry a movie THIS boring and pompous. It's basically a heavy handed 'art house' rendition of "Twilight" that goes the whole 'style over substance' route in a dull and self-indulgently 'minimalistic' mien. The hipster/vampire-crowd may dig this, but I didn't get much out of it, to say the least. Check out Abel Ferrara's "The Addiction" instead.