This fear has clothes,
This smile is swords.
I enter the voids
And listen so close
The meaningful words,
The ugly steps of the herds,
And I count the guards
Outside the wards.
And all I’m left with is shiver.
Remember when I died in the river?
Name: The Moth Diaries (2011)
Plot: Rebecca is suspicious of Ernessa, 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?
Director: Mary Harron
Writer: Rachel Klein (novel)
Stars: Sarah Bolger, Sarah Gadon, Lily Cole, Scott Speedman
IMDB rating: 5.0
Personal rating: 7.0
A story about obsession, a story about fear, about nightmares and jealousy. Intertwined with female sexuality, there lie secrets, repulsion, imagination, vampires and moths.
The legends of the vampires have never been this obscure, this hidden, this shameful. Behind the story of a girl whose father comitted suicide, behind her friendship with her best friend, there is a dangerous predator, that seeks her, tries to break her down, mentally and emotionally. A predator that follows her every step, starting with the deaths of her father and her friends, and finishing with her growing obsession for the new girl.