![]() I’ve tried to stay true to Rachel Klein’s novel in the way it re-works and updates the Gothic tradition and the whole notion of girl-on-girl vampires. Kelly and Samantha Mabry talk about the weird, wonderful, and highly-discussable book THE MOTH DIARIES by Rachel Klein This episode is sponsored by Goldie. Commenting on the film, director Harron said: "This is a chillingly atmospheric horror story with real emotional depth. Lily Cole stars as Ernessa, Scott Speedman as Mr. The book was adapted into a movie released in 2011,one of the major changes was naming the narrator Rebecca despite her being unnamed in the novel. ![]() At the center of the diary is the question that haunts all who read it, "Is Ernessa really a vampire?" or has the narrator trapped herself in the fevered world of her own imagining? Film adaptation As fear spreads through the school and Lucy isn't Lucy anymore, fantasy and reality mingle until what is true and what is dreamed bleed together into a waking nightmare that evokes with gothic menace the anxieties, lusts, and fears of adolescence. ![]() ![]() Around her swirl dark rumors, suspicions, and secrets as well as a series of ominous disasters. The object of her growing obsession is her roommate, Lucy Blake, and Lucy's friendship with their new and disturbing classmate, Ernessa. At an exclusively girls' boarding school, a 16-year-old unnamed narrator, records her most intimate thoughts in a diary. ![]()
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