The Moth Diaries

The Moth Diaries (2011)

Every girl has her secrets.

Rebecca is a young girl who, haunted by her father’s suicide, enrolls in an elite boarding school for girls. Before long, her friendship with the popular Lucy is shattered by the arrival of a dark and mysterious new student named Ernessa, whom Rebecca suspects may be responsible for the rising body count at the school.

Date of release
2011-09-06
TMDB
5.3 / 10 (171)
Runtime
1h 22m
Genres
Horror, Mystery
Director
Mary Harron

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: The Moth Diaries

The Moth Diaries is a 2011 gothic psychological horror film written and directed by Mary Harron, and starring Lily Cole, Sarah Gadon, Sarah Bolger, Judy Parfitt, and Scott Speedman. Based on the 2002 American novel of the same name by Rachel Klein, it follows Rebecca, a teenage girl who suspects that Ernessa, the new student at an all-girls boarding school is a vampire.

Production

Director Mary Harron originally intended for the film to be a period piece set in the 1970s, the same decade the source novel is set in. However, after Harron was unable to license the rights to several songs of the era, she instead chose to set the film in contemporary times. "I was persuaded out of it, party because it’s more expensive, but also because then it’d be another period film," said Harron.

Harron was drawn to the project after reading the novel, due to its platonic female romance, which she felt is "never represented. Teenage girls’ emotions is always seen in terms of boys, or perhaps a rivalry with another girl. I wanted the primary emotional focus of love and devotion to be on another girl. But it's not just a lesbian film, because that's also misleading. Not that that isn't part of many adolescents, but it doesn't have to be.

The Moth Diaries was an international co-production between Canada and Ireland, with Edward R. Pressman serving as an executive producer.

Harron began casting the film in March 2009. Lily Cole and Scott Speedman's casting were officially announced in September 2010, along with that of Sarah Bolger and Sarah Gadon.

Principal photography took place in Montreal beginning on 31 August 2010. Filming was scheduled to complete on 9 October 2010.

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