Protraph Lack of good storyline.

Acensbart Excellent but underrated film

AnhartLinkin This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

Haven Kaycee It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

Leofwine_draca THE MOTH DIARIES is an attempt at a creepy reworking of J. S. Le Fanu's CARMILLA, a classic Victorian vampire story about a female vampire. The story was previously adapted to great effect by Hammer in THE VAMPIRE LOVERS, LUST FOR A VAMPIRE, and TWINS OF EVIL.Sadly, this sedate and all-too-mainstream version of the story doesn't have much to offer apart from a few diluted thrills and atmospherics. With such a full-blooded tale as source material, I'm not sure why they would go ahead and make such a subtle and insipid film, but they did. And THE MOTH DIARIES isn't even particularly creepy or atmospheric to make up for it.The reliable Sarah Bolger (INTO THE BADLANDS) stars as a prim and proper young student who soon realises there's something odd about her new classmate, played by model Lily Cole (who's no actress on the strength of her non-performance here). After a hell of a lot of repetitive dialogue and various surreal encounters, there's a climax of sorts, but not before most viewers will have dozed off. And whoever thought the scenes with the silly CGI moths were a good idea wants removing from the film industry.

UnderworldRocks 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.

Anna Lee This movie was extremely disappointing. The plot was poorly developed, as well as the characters, who were all flat and painfully insipid, and the script was a complete waste.I haven't read The Moth Diaries before, but from this movie and several summaries, I can tell where the story is going. And I can tell it has potential to be a good film. Not only because of the story line, but also because the cinematography of the entire movie was well done, which shows the director is capable of capturing the story.But alas, the story that is captured is bleak and lazily drawn out. Scratch that. More like said out. Rebecca, the main character, frequently voices over her thoughts and what she's found out, instead of showing the audience. The ending is abrupt and it almost seemed like I had been watching the storyboard of the movie's ending, rather than the real ending itself. Even though I knew what was happening, I didn't feel like I ever got any time to absorb any information. The plot was practically being thrown into your face.Some cuts in the movie were also very awkward. I had to go back to watch certain scenes again because I thought I'd missed something, but it turned out that the cuts were just really sudden. I believe that if some things had been dragged out a little longer, they would have left a larger impact on the viewer. One example would be a scene where Rebecca sees Ernessa in the library and Ernessa begins to sing to her. Right before Ernessa sings, she says something, then it immediately cuts to her singing in a split second. There is no slow tilting of the head forward or suspended glassy-eyed gazing, etc. She simply breaks into the song, which was sung creepily enough to know she was trying to be creepy, but not enough to creep me out.It was ridiculous for any genre of movie it was meant to be. Whether it was a psychological thriller or a horror flick, it failed to boggle my mind or scare me at all.

john wied What is beyond bad? Annoying...yes, that's it. No scene lasted more than 20 seconds, emotions flashed by like humming birds, people came and went, slept woke and slept again within seconds, got sick better and died just as fast. No time to care about any character, and certainly no reason to care about this movie, with it's bad acting, inexplicably bad direction, and pointless plot. Ick-too-ee...bad taste in mouth movie...be warned.If you want to watch a scary movie with children, and vampires, see "Let the Right One In" in English, or it's foreign original. Heck, any one of the Twilight movies would be infinitely better.