Please don't spend money on this.

Beautiful, moving film.

A brilliant film that helped define a genre

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

The Moth Diaries had a great storyline, I really likes the idea. However a few scenes in the movie would be very triggering for someone struggling with suicide and self harm. There is no prewarning about this, as some movies have, and personally a prewarning would have prevented me from watching it. I am however acknowledging that The Moth Diaries is the genre horror, and there are many gory scenes in many horror movies which may become triggering, but The Moth Diaries is specifically graphic and unsettling. In other aspects of the movie I found there to be no real building of the tension. Things would happen and new information would be revealed but as a viewer there was no real anticipation or suspense. The acting seemed fake and unrealistic.

I really want to like this film, I really do. But I can't.What's not to like? A vampire film with Scott Speedman! plus a title similar to that of the TV series The Vampire Diaries, and a poster showing the face of a mysterious female vampire and promises of an interesting story.Sadly, this pathetic film is simply not my cup of tea.The acting on Rebecca's part is awful, awful, awful... Her hysterical cries over Lucy's body are laughable... Hahahaha! How come? Because the story is not touching or intriguing at all. If you want the audience to feel the pain and grief the characters feel, you have to set up the stage first by giving us a story that will really make us feel involved and care for those characters. Instead, what the audience get is simply a story of a bunch of female juveniles doing drugs and talking about sex... That's why when Rebecca loses her bestie, Lucy, demanding audience like myself don't give a damn.Scott Speedman! Yes! He's the main reason I was attracted to this film. He did the role Michael Corvin in the Underworld series really well, and I look forward to seeing him return as Michael Corvin in Underworld 5. He does the role Mr. Davies in this film pretty well. His handsome face radiates with emotions...Ernessa was a character well done. Pity, she was taken out too easily. I thought there could be an epic battle somewhere towards the end, but then suddenly Ernessa was burnt and the film was over.Rebecca was an extremely annoying and irritating character, and I just hoped Ernessa could torture this lame girl to death slowly because that is what that awful awful awful Rebecca deserves.When I look at Rebecca's face on the poster, I only feel the sense of repulsion.

The Moth Diaries is bad. Not bad in the Movie 43 way that necessitates a long, arduous rant. Just bad in the 'why would you bother?' kind of way.There's a smidgen of sexiness.Actually, that's a lie. We're just given a glimpse of a naked tit and a couple of girls and a bathtub. To be honest, The Moth Diaries is only titillating if you've never got past first base.There's a hint of vampirism.Nah, not really. There's nary a spiky tooth or a pointed thumbnail. The only horror on display in The Moth Diaries is the shocking lack of acting prowess, the dire script and the utter lack of reason. Oh, and the clumsiness of the direction. And the blood that, when it finally arrives, is the wrong colour, wrong consistency and clearly dyed water. Mind you, it fits perfectly in the film as everything is diluted beyond value.Periodically we are treated to pained expressions from the 'actors' but, though they probably represent the sum total of the mastery of their craft, they are nothing compared to the agony my companion and I suffered.The Moth Diaries isn't even so awful it's good (in a Gigli kind of way). It just stinks.It's not worth the effort to rant and I'm sure as hell not going to waste time telling you about the actors, director blah blah blah. If, unfathomably, you're intrigued then flick through the trailer but don't blow 82 minutes of your life on this tosh.To be fair, it's possibly the best film ever (since The Host) as long as you're a lobotomized twelve-year-old girl.For more reviews from The Squiss, subscribe to my blog and like the Facebook page.

Rebecca (Sarah Bolger) is suspicious of Ernessa (Lily Cole), the new arrival at her boarding school. But is Rebecca just jealous of Ernessa's bond with Lucie, or does the new girl truly possess a dark secret? I liked the look of this film, I liked the characters. I found Mr. Davies interesting -- his "Twilight" hair, and his creepy advances (not sure why a man is teaching at an all girl school). I feel like there was more to him than the film ever let on (should I read the book?).In fact, the film stumbles (in my opinion) because it has lots of loose ends, such as the scene with Rebecca's period (what was going on here?) and why does it matter that her father was a respected author? If the story had just been straightforward, it might have been able to explore more of the important themes rather than just showing girls playing video games.And I have to ask, is this a "girl" film or a horror film? I feel like that decision could not be made. It claims to be a horror film but has the tone of a girl party film. Why? I am all for mixing genres, but you have to have the right tone. Coming from director Mary Harron ("American Psycho") I expect better. Another reviewer suggested the film be called "pasty white female". I kind of agree.Lastly: Whoever wrote the Netflix summary is an idiot. They refer to Rebecca as a "college senior" (she is sixteen, in boarding school) and says that Ernessa may be a vampire -- she is not, nor does anyone ever think she is.