The film, directed by Ana Lily Amirpour, is described as a love story set in a fictitious Iranian ghost town reeking of death and loneliness, where a strange and jaded population is haunted by a lonesome vampire who preys upon the city’s most depraved denizens.
Shot in widescreen black and white and entirely in Farsi, everything from the characters, the look, a modern soundtrack of ’60s inspired Western guitar music and Iranian pop make the film a mythical mash-up of genre and culture.
I talk a bit about my thoughts on the film a bit on The Bloodcast – you can listen in here. Look for the film this October.
Meanwhile, the Stephen King adaptation A Good Marriage – pulled from the pages of “Full Dark No Stars” – was picked up by Screen Media. It will hit select theaters and VOD this October. Anthony LaPaglia, Joan Allen and Stephen Lang star.
Darcy Anderson discovers her husband has been keeping an especially terrible secret for years. What happens when, on a perfectly ordinary evening, all the things you believed in and took for granted are turned upside-down? What do you do and who do you call on when you discover that your good marriage has been built on a nightmare foundation of torture and murder?
