New clip & behind-the-scenes look at Mary Harron’s The Moth Diaries

Last Updated on July 23, 2021

After striking cinematic gold her first time out with AMERICAN PSYCHO, Mary Harron has only directed one other feature…2005’sTHE NOTORIOUS BETTY PAGE. However, Harron returns to the genre she showed such a deft hand with back in 2000, giving us THE MOTH DIARIES on April 20th of this year. With less than a month away, check out a new clip and behind-the-scenes featurette we have for the film underneath!

In the newest clip, you’ll hear some banter traded between Sarah Bolger and Sarah Gadon while the former enjoys a bath. Then comes Lily Cole’s dastard looking character. Not to be trusted!

In the featurette, you’ll hear from Mary Harron regarding her motivations for telling this particular story, as well as character descriptions from stars Sarah Bolger, Sarah Gadon, Scott Speedman and Lily Cole (below).

Scripted by Rachel Klein from her own novel:

Acclaimed director Mary Harron returns with the chilling story of Rebecca (Sarah Bolger), a young girl who, haunted by her father’s suicide, enrolls in an elite boarding school for girls. Before long, Rebecca’s friendship with the popular Lucy (Sarah Gadon) is shattered by the arrival of a dark and mysterious new student named Ernessa (Lily Cole). Lucy falls under Ernessa’s spell and becomes emotionally and physically consumed by her glamorous new friend. Rebecca, whose overtures of concern are rejected by Lucy, finds herself lost and confused. She begins to develop a crush on her handsome English teacher, Mr. Davies (Scott Speedman) and immerses herself in the Gothic vampire novel Carilla for his class. Rebecca starts to suspect that Ernessa is a vampire, but, despite the suspicious deaths that begin to occur, her fears are treated as simple girlish jealousy. As the bodies of young girls pile up and the line between reality and the supernatural starts to blur, Rebecca decides to take matters into her own hands and get rid of Ernessa. Who can say what is real and what is unreal to the heart consumed by passion and a mind afire with loss?

Based on the bestselling novel by Rachel Klein, THE MOTH DIARIES is a harrowing story of the anxieties, lusts and fears of adolescence.

THE MOTH DIARIES opens a limited run April 20th.