2 join Moth Diaries

By Eric Walkuski

Posted 17 years ago

Last Updated on July 26, 2021

Back in March, I told you about Mary “American Psycho” Harron’s newest project, an adaptation of the novel THE MOTH DIARIES. It centers on a girl who may be a vampire wreaking havoc at a boarding school. (More detailed synopsis below.) The flick is now moving forward, having cast two leads.

Waifish Lily Cole (pictured below), a rising British star, and hunky Scott Speedman (THE STRANGERS; pictured right) have joined THE MOTH DIARIES, which will begin shooting in Montreal later this summer. Their roles aren’t specified.

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Unfolding through the journal of a sixteen-year-old girl, The Moth Diaries is a compellingly brilliant portrait of obsession and fear set in the hothouse atmosphere of a girls’ boarding school. It is a world of too many books and too little reality, where ideas become passions and passions obsessions. The unnamed narrator believes with increasing certainty that a schoolmate is a vampire, subtly and secretly killing her best friend and roommate, and responsible for an escalating series of disasters at the school. As she watches her friend’s growing relationship with Ernessa, she gradually loses her grip on reality, her paranoia fueled by reading le Fanu’s vampiric novel Carmilla. Is Ernessa really a vampire? Or has the narrator trapped herself in her own fevered imagination?

Source: Screen Daily

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Eric Walkuski

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