Abstract
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night is the basic Iranian Vampire Western. The place of religion in Girl Walks Home Alone at Night is elusive, at once everywhere and nowhere. The movie features no (professed) Muslims, notable for a film set in a fictionalized Iran. Girl Walks Home Alone includes an extended non sequitur sequence in which Rockabilly dances with a balloon in an abandoned public square. As journalist Sophie Mayer notes, this scene is so out of place, so deliberately Lynchian, as to suggest the gender difference Rockabilly embodies should unsettle the viewer. Girl Walks Home Alone at Night rejects the “good Muslim” trope by affording its main character her monstrosity. Muslims have long been monstrous to western minds, as Sophia Arjana reminds us.
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