The Moth Diaries (Blu-ray) R
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 22 minutes
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: August 28, 2012
- Originally Released: 2011
- Label: IFC Independent Film
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Sarah Bolger, Sarah Gadon & Lily Cole | |
Performer: | Scott Speedman, Judy Parfitt, Anne Day-Jones, Valerie Tian, Melissa Farman & Laurence Hamelin | |
Directed by | Mary Harron | |
Edited by | Andrew Marcus | |
Screenplay by | Mary Harron | |
Composition by | Lesley Barber | |
Director of Photography: | Declan Quinn |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2/4 --
Where are the shivers? The girls are properly fragile, ethereal and neurotic, but the way Ms. Harron gingerly moves them around like porcelain dolls is too careful to stir up much terror.
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Observer
Harron keeps the film bristling with suspense and erotic tension...
Rolling Stone
In The Moth Diaries, we're just left with a half-baked morality tale that seems to suggest that young women are so hungry for daddy surrogates that they seek them in each other.
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io9.com
Rating: D+ --
Harron, a supremely intelligent adaptor who did wonders with the screen version of Bret Easton Ellis' American Psycho, simply doesn't have the chops to give this story the florid kick it needs.
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AV Club
Rating: 1/5 --
Harron can do little with this bloodless drama, a shadow of such quiet vampire treats as "Let the Right One In" and "The Addiction."
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New York Daily News
Rating: 2/5 --
I'd give this moth-eaten nonsense a miss.
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Birmingham Mail
Rating: 2/5 --
The Moth Diaries fails to frighten, titillate or otherwise engage the imagination.
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MSN Movies
Product Description:
Director Mary Harron adapts author Rachel Klein's portentous novel about a teenage boarding-school student who fears that a mysterious newcomer has cast a dark spell over her cherished best friend. In the aftermath of her father's suicide, Rebecca (Sarah Bolger) had a difficult time making an emotional recovery. That all changed when she met Lucy (Sarah Gadon), a fellow student who helped to draw her out of her deep depression. Upon returning for their next semester at Brangwyn College, however, Rebecca and Lucy begin drifting apart following the arrival of Ernessa (Lily Cole), a moody new student who takes an immediate liking to Lucy and accosts her at every opportunity. When Rebecca's teacher Mr. Davies (Scott Speedman) gives his class the assignment of reading Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's classic gothic novel CARMILLA, Rebecca begins to suspect Ernessa of being a vampire intent on consuming Lucy's life force. Those suspicions seem to be confirmed when the students and staff of the school begin dying under mysterious circumstances and Lucy falls gravely ill. But the more Rebecca reaches out to Mr. Davies for help, the more unstable she begins to appear. Left with no other choice in order to save the life of her best friend, Rebecca vows to reveal Ernessa for what she truly is, and in the process makes a disturbing discovery.