Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

There is just so much movie here. For some it may be too much. But in the same secretly sarcastic way most telemarketers say the phrase, the title of this one is particularly apt.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

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.

The Moth Diaries had a great storyline, I really likes the idea. However a few scenes in the movie would be very triggering for someone struggling with suicide and self harm. There is no prewarning about this, as some movies have, and personally a prewarning would have prevented me from watching it. I am however acknowledging that The Moth Diaries is the genre horror, and there are many gory scenes in many horror movies which may become triggering, but The Moth Diaries is specifically graphic and unsettling. In other aspects of the movie I found there to be no real building of the tension. Things would happen and new information would be revealed but as a viewer there was no real anticipation or suspense. The acting seemed fake and unrealistic.

Rebecca is at a boarding school with dress codes, early morning meetings, prayers, and the like. Her friend Charlie gets kicked out for breaking a window, for instance; students get detention for being late for morning meetings.Rebecca and Lucy were best friends until Ernessa came along. Rebecca suspects that Ernessa is a vampire, but no one want to hear anything negative about Ernessa. Rebecca's attempts to straighten this out only backfire as Lucy gets sick, then weaker, then dead. Her attempt to confide in Mr. Davies results in his hitting on her; later, he reports her 'troubled' behaviour to Mrs. Rood to get ahead of any child molestation charges, one guesses.Rebecca's own problems (her poet father committed suicide) are brought up frequently. The school is concerned for her. Some of her daydreams are ridiculous.Will Rebecca stay in school? Will she expose Ernessa? Is the school complicit in Ernessa's actions? ------Scores------Cinematography: 8/10 A bit dark and fuzzy in some passages, but mostly fine.Sound: 10/10 No problems.Acting: 4/10 This film might appeal to teen girls; others, perhaps not so much. The adults are all imperious or criminal. Most of the teens are portrayed as short sighted. Sarah Bolger portrays a deeply flawed individual, but is not all that believable.Screenplay: 5/10 The story was short on ideas, and the few it had were not executed all that well. Rebecca gets to do all sorts of things at the school with no detection, no reprimands, or even discussion. It seems like she would have been expelled for any number of her actions.

I collect/watch films that have been adapted from book, whatever the genre so next on my list was The Moth Diaries. I enjoyed the book and finished it yesterday, then decided to watch the film.In my opinion, the movie remained true to the book, apart from being set in modern day, which the book was not. I liked the look of the film and I thought the acting was decent throughout. Personally I think the main characters could have been developed more throughout the film than they were.I think that anyone watching this film might not appreciate the full story as told in the book - I know that the story has to unfold within the usual 90 mins or so - but I feel that having just read the book before watching the film, made things a bit more coherent or me. Another viewer coming straight to the this film without having read the book, may struggle to make sense of some of some of it.It is is no way a bad film, just a bit disjointed in places.