I have chosen Ana Lily Amirpour’s 2014 western-horror film, “A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night” for my textual analysis. The film is set during the time of its production (2014) in the fictional Iranian location, Bad City. It follows Arash, a young man with a drug addicted father, who encounters “The Girl”, a vampire who hunts men that treat women badly. I have selected the section of the film between 21:28 – 26:28, which is the inciting incident, during the end of the first act. In this scene, The Girl follows the drug-dealing pimp Saeed home, after witnessing him hit the prostitute Atti. She then enacts her revenge by biting off his finger and killing him, revealing to the audience that she is a vampire. To analyse this section, I am focusing on mise-en-scene, cinematography, and the filmmaker’s influences, intentions and vision. The context examined focuses on social and political factors connected to the film around the time of its production.