Directed by:
Mary HarronScreenplay:
Mary HarronCinematography:
Declan QuinnComposer:
Lesley BarberCast:
Lily Cole, Sarah Bolger, Scott Speedman, Valerie Tian, Judy Parfitt, Melissa Farman, Sarah Gadon, Anne Day-Jones, Kathleen Fee, Gia Sandhu, Deena Aziz (more)Plots(1)
Sixteen-year-old Rebecca (Sarah Bolger) haunted by her poet fathers suicide records her intimate thoughts in a diary most of them cantered on her best friend and roommate Lucie (Sarah Gadon). But when a dark and mysterious new girl Ernessa (Lily Cole) arrives at school, everyones world is turned upside down. Suddenly there is a rash of grisly deaths on campus, Lucie and Ernessa become inseparable and Rebecca begins to believe that the porcelain-skinned newcomer is a vampire who is draining Lucie of life. Based on Rachel Klein's novel and written for the screen and directed by Mary Harron, The Moth Diaries is an eerie and suspenseful Gothic tale where fantasy and reality bleed together into a waking nightmare. (Anchor Bay)
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Empty crap that relies on the gothic vampire mythology (the film says that every vampire story has three attributes: sex, blood and death, but here the sex is only insinuated, the blood is everywhere in only one dream sequence and there aren’t too many deaths, either) and that wants to be self-aware psychological horror (describing the relationship between two friends who become estranged due to a supernatural creature that controls one of them), but that in the end only causes the indifference of the viewer, at best, and laughter, at worst. Moth Diaries doesn’t work on any level, the dialogues are toe curling, the actors are wooden and there’s no atmosphere. I expected something slightly above-par, what I got was conceited crap that I will try to forget soon (which, I believe, won’t be much trouble). PS: The only interesting thing in the film is the look of the main “moth”, it’s really nasty.
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At first, it seems like it could be a horror set in an intriguing environment, with emphasis on atmosphere, but in the end, it turns out to be just a pseudo-young adult romance, which also didn't quite work out. The characters are seemingly interesting at first glance but are otherwise boring and flat, just like the story, which quickly becomes tedious.
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