A creeping unease that lingers through lonely black and white streets at night. Main characters that breathe alienation and despair but carry their burdens alone. We witness their encounter and how they slowly reveal their drama only to uncover their primordial loneliness. An Iranian vampire falls in love with a mortal man and there is no cure. The emotional collision that follows provides not for a very comforting outlook at first but exactly this inspired The Black Heart Rebellion to write an alternative soundtrack to the 2015 Ana Lily Amirpur movie A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night. A substitute muse might be the most fitting description for the role the movie played during the process. And a generous one at that - setting the stage with meticulously crafted scenes that invited TBHR to answer to the images with music. The dialogue that came about opened an untapped territory for TBHR to experiment, adding to the atmosphere of the film but also questioning it, realising how much music too directs the emotions of the viewer. And the direction is gloomy. TBHR amplifies the underlying loneliness and darkness in each character with compelling ambient soundscapes and drug-infused eastern delirium. A dark trip in which a rare spark of hope soon crawls away under another unforgiving Iranian moon.
