The 2026 Searching the Psyche Through Cinema film series explores the world of horror, inviting us to confront our deepest fears. The series continues with a screening and discussion of the 2014 black-and-white film A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (NR, 101 minutes).
Writer and director Ana Lily Amirpour’s debut fuses horror, film noir, and the western in its own take on vampire lore. The film’s setting is an Iranian ghost-town, Bad City, where drugs, crime, and prostitution run rampant, and a skateboarding vampire (Sheila Man) takes matters into her own hands.
The Austin Chronicle writes, "It's a spooky, moody doozy of a debut lensed ... in a radiant monochrome that somehow makes even the darkness sparkle.”
A post-screening discussion is led by licensed clinical professional counselor Elise Sanders and film critic/final girl Sophie Williams.
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