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A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night | 100 Movies Bucket List

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  I've mentioned before that I'm wary of vampire horror movies, as it's not a sub-genre I love. All I knew about this film before watching it was that it was a vampire movie, so I wasn't particularly excited for it. I thought the film was fine. I didn't love it but didn't hate it either. It starts in a really grounded way. We really get to know the main character from his first moments on screen, and we're immediately invested in his story. It's set in a world that feels really authentic and real. So much so that you almost forget you're watching a vampire movie, or even a horror at points. What makes this film original is the categorisation of the vampire. She's so many things wrapped up into one. At times she's the villain, and then she becomes a saviour. We don't know whether we should be scared or her, intrigued by her, enamoured with her or all three. I didn't find the story as engaging the whole way through as it was at the begi...