In the second episode of our “Pretty When She Bites” series, host Leslie Hurtado heads to Ana Lily Amirpour’s Bad City for A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014), the first “Iranian vampire western.” Shot in stark black-and-white, the film follows Sheila Vand’s chador-clad vampire as she skates through Bad City. She stalks abusers, rescues a stray cat, and falls for hustler Arash to surf guitars and spaghetti-western echoes, all under Lynch-inspired dream logic. A decade later, its feminist fangs still draw blood, piercing patriarchy, diaspora longing, and loneliness with every bite.