There have been numerous adaptations of Carmilla on screen before, including Carl Dreyer’s Vampyr (1932), Roger Vadim’s Blood and Roses (1960), Terror in the Crypt (1963), the trilogy of Hammer films beginning with The Vampire Lovers (1970), The Blood-Spattered Bride (1972) and Carmilla (tv movie, 1989). Sheridan Le Fanu’s classic lesbian vampire story Carmilla (1872) for the Twilight crowd. Sarah Bolger as RebeccaĪs a film, The Moth Diaries seems to take up the challenging idea of rewriting J. All of these have enjoyed a well above average degree of acclaim. It is written and directed by Canadian director Mary Harron who gained a reputation with films such as I Shot Andy Warhol (1996) based on the lifestory of 1960s radical Valerie Solanas, the blackly funny adaptation of Brett Easton Ellis’s American Psycho (2000), the biopic of the legendary pin-up girl The Notorious Bettie Page (2006) and subsequent to this Charlie Says (2018) about the Manson Killings. The film version of The Moth Diaries comes from a host of international companies. Klein’s novel was written as an adult horror story, told as a series of diary entries where you never entirely knew whether Ernessa’s vampire nature was real or in the heroine’s imagination. The film is taken from The Moth Diaries (2002), a debut novel by Rachel Klein. The Moth Diaries is another entry that seeks to tap the burgeoning tween emo drama market that was opened up by Twilight (2008) and sequels.
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