The Bad Batch

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Ana Lily Amirpour follows up her breakout indie hit A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night with The Bad Batch, a “dark adventure-romance” she also wrote. It premiered at last year’s Venice Film Festival before screening at the Toronto International Film Festival. The film stars Suki Waterhouse, Jason Momoa, Giovanni Ribisi, and Keanu Reeves.

THE BAD BATCH follows Arlen (Waterhouse) after she’s left in a Texas wasteland fenced off from civilization. While trying to navigate the unforgiving landscape, Arlen is captured by a savage band of cannibals led by the mysterious Miami Man (Momoa). With her life on the line, she makes her way to The Dream (Reeves). As she adjusts to life in ‘the bad batch’ Arlen discovers that being good or bad mostly depends on who’s standing next to you.

Amirpour describes the film’s setting as “a psychedelic western because it’s not set in the Wild West, it’s kind of modern, almost current time, almost calling back to the 90s and 80s in some ways, and 70s even. I think America kind of has that. The weird thing about America is that if you leave the major cities, it’s a big country of just land. And if you leave a major city and drive even for half hour, or two hours, you’re going to end up in some strange towns that are stuck in past decades.”

The Bad Batch is rated R.