Thanks for the memories!

One of my all time favorites.

Just perfect...

Absolutely the worst movie.

Atmospheric and literary, this supernatural movie isn't run of the mill. It lacks the silliness or shock tactics and silly romance of some of the other vampire movies jumping on the Twilight bandwagon.A subtly chilling atmosphere is set up in a girl's boarding school. The cast is superior. Sarah Gadon pale and beautiful plays Lucy a bright cheerful girl who befriends creepy looking newcomer Ernessa played by the strangest looking actress Lily Cole. Lucy's friend and the central character is Rebecca played by the sweet Sarah Bolger. Rebecca begins to suspect something strange about Ernessa. Scott Speedman plays a new English teacher.Faults: a few too many dream/hallucinations.This isn't a big movie with lots of effects but it's well done in a classy way for the genre. Liked the way things don't get too ridiculous and the ending which isn't formula.

Actually not a bad movie. Lily Cole and the actress who played the main character are pretty good. There are some plot holes: The teacher who kisses the girl, nothing happens to him, and one wonders why he is even present in the movie. It is fairly clear from the beginning of the movie what is happening, and what will likely happen. We're told that Ernessa has to do laps in the pool as a punishment for not showing up at gym classes, but we're not told why, and we discover she can't swim. This tidbit goes nowhere, except to provide justification for a later murder. The movie has Ernessa changing into moths, but again, we're not told why. Ernessa wants the female led to kill herself but we're not told why a suicide will somehow guarantee vampire immortality. One of the girls, a Japanese student, is somehow induced to throw a chair out of the window, ostensibly to get her kicked out, and therefore out of the circle of friends so Ernessa can continue her work... but we're not told really why. One of the other characters goes off to the woods to lose her virginity but this is apparently only a vehicle for a dream sequence where the studly English teacher is seducing the student. But since the English teacher sub-plot really doesn't go anywhere, one wonders why this was included. But if you're doing something else, and have the movie on, it's not a bad flick. The set is visually rich, and the characters are present enough to make it entertaining. To summarize there is a tension throughout the movie that was pretty good though one wonders whether or not the director/screenwriter had some difficulty in finding her ending.

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.

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.