Top billed cast

1. 

   Sheila Vand

   The Girl

2. 

   Arash Marandi

   Arash

3. 

   Marshall Manesh

   Hossein 'The Junkie'

4. 

   Mozhan Navabi

   Atti 'The Prostitute'

5. 

   Dominic Rains

   Saeed 'The Pimp'

6. 

   Rome Shadanloo

   Shaydah 'The Princess'

7. 

   Milad Eghbali

   The Street Urchin

8. 

   Reza Sixo Safai

   Rockabilly

9. 

   Ray Haratian

   The Boss 'Commercial'

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Reviews

A review by badelf

Written by badelf on 2026-07-16

Summary: 7/10: A stylized, slow-burning vampire Western and feminist revenge fantasy; Sheila Vand's mesmerizing performance and Amirpour's distinctive visual language and sound overcome occasional pacing issues to create something genuinely original.

What happens when you cross a spaghetti western, a graphic novel, Iranian New Wave cinema, and a vampire film, then shoot it in black and white in a California town standing in for a fictional Iranian ghost town called Bad City? You get a genuinely original filmmaking voice.

Ana Lily Amirpour's debut feature, promoted as "the first Iranian v...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$1,000,000.00

Revenue
$395,000.00

Keywords

• vampire
• loneliness
• black and white
• prostitution
• drugs
• woman director
• vampiress (female vampire)
• critical
• depressing
• powerful