I really just don’t like horror, particularly any kind of really stereotypical, “oh let’s do a black and white, vampire horror film”. Really just don’t like it. I love the thrill of caring about a character, or a gripping moment but a moment where I’m genuinely terrified, not for the characters, but for myself, that’s really not a fun experience. A Girl Walks Home at Night is a Supernatural Thriller/romance film, a genre film. But it doesn’t just fall into a genre because of the kind of film it is. The film intentionally employs techniques from other films of that genre. Particularly horror films and particularly supernatural horror films.

The decision to shoot the film in Black and White is not at all surprising as it seems to be a nod to the old horror films. You can very easily find a lot of amateur horror that similarly does this, for instance RocketJump Film School’s “The Horn”, which though, yes it’s a satyr and it’s a short, it also uses this very cold, black and white palette as both a call back to previous films but also to ground the audience in the genre. There are only a few genres of film that feel the need to remind the audience that they’re watching a genre film, horror is one of them. The lighting and even subject matter is also very film noir, using femme fetales and lighting that calls back to even that genre.

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night is also very obviously a title that calls to mind some already pretty horrific things, though the audience will definitely be surprised when they watch the film and see what it really is.