\nMany young women are warned to never walk alone, especially at night, for fear that a monster will grab them and condemn them to a life of depravity and abuse. More so, societies have constructed these monsters, e.g. the \u2018stranger in the dark alley,\u2019 in order to create a physical enemy that can be vanquished, all in the pursuit of preserving women\u2019s purity. However, women resist these narratives and constraints that society imposes upon them in favor of agency and personhood, defined as freely choosing one\u2019s own course of life This paper will focus on resistance through film, looking at one film in particular\u2014an \u201cAmerican film set in Iran\u201d entitled A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (VICE). The director, Ana Lily Amirpour, an Iranian-American filmmaker, uses this film, lauded as the first Middle Eastern Vampire Western, to critique the \u2018women of Islam\u2019 stereotypes that are propagated within U.S. and often Iranian culture, and reverses these stereotypes to make them sites of resistance.\n<\/p>\n