

The two share ideas on Romantic literature and poetry. Mr Davies shows particular interest in Rebecca. Rebecca thinks Ernessa is a vampire.Įrnessa slowly gets rid of Rebecca's close friends, leaving Rebecca to find out what is happening by herself.Ī new English teacher, Mr Davies, arrives at the school. She seems like she can walk through closed windows, and she is often seen lingering around the basement (a place that students are forbidden to go). Dora dies in a freak accident shortly after spying on Ernessa's room, and a teacher is found murdered in the woods. First, Charley gets expelled because of Ernessa. She tries to confront Lucy about Ernessa's dark secrets, but her pleas are dismissed as jealousy. Ernessa's presence makes Rebecca feel uneasy. Lucy quickly becomes best friends with Ernessa and becomes distant from Rebecca. The following year, a mysterious, dark-haired girl named Ernessa Bloch enrolls into the school.

With the help of her best friend and roommate, Lucy Blake, Rebecca soon recovers. Her mother transferred Rebecca to the school, hoping to help her daughter escape the memory of her father's death. Two years earlier, Rebecca's father, a poet, took his own life by slitting his wrists. The film received generally negative reviews from critics.Īt an exclusive boarding school for girls, 16-year-old Rebecca Cantor writes her most intimate thoughts in a diary. The Moth Diaries premiered at the 68th Venice International Film Festival on 6 September 2011, and was theatrically released in Canada on 6 April 2012 by Alliance Films and in Ireland on by Lionsgate. An Irish-Canadian venture, the film was co-produced by Samson Films and Mediamax. The plot follows Rebecca, a teenage girl who suspects that Ernessa, the new student at an all-girls boarding school is a vampire. The film stars Lily Cole, Sarah Gadon, Sarah Bolger, Judy Parfitt, and Scott Speedman. The Moth Diaries is a 2011 gothic horror film written and directed by Mary Harron, based on the 2002 novel of the same name by Rachel Klein.
