i know i wasted 90 mins of my life.

Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Some decrepit old ghost/vampire lady-thingy impersonating a sexy young dyevochka is really a moth, or actually 1000s of moths (we're made out of atoms, she of moths), and she is like really old and stuff and likes to kill young girls for fun and she's like such a filthy old pervert that she even has sex with one of them, which is technically pedo territory, right? But you can't arrest moths for sexual molestation, can you?Anyway, Lily Cole Moth has her eye on killing Sarah Bolger Non-Moth - that's her ultimate goal, and one which Sarah figures out only at the end of the movie, way way way long after even the dumbest of us dumb viewers had already figured it out an hour earlier. So if Lily Moth wanted to kill Sarah all along, why did she wait so long and kill several people who aren't Sarah Bolger? No, Rachel Klein the author doesn't know and neither does Mary Harron the director. They don't bother to tell us WHY Lily came to that school to kill random people, nor why moths hate water (do they?), nor why moths are into same-sex activity. (If moths were inclined that way, wouldn't there be a LOT less of them?)In fact, there's a strong whiff of lesbianism permeating the entire movie which makes me suspect that either the director or the author are leaning that way. They even portray the only heterosexual encounter in the movie - the actual intercourse - as painful and unpleasant.And those of you who think that your patience will be rewarded with a grand finale Sarah vs Moth Lily, you're sadly mistaken, because Sarah sneaks up to Moth Lady real easy, sets her on fire, kills her, and that's pretty much it, and the whole movie was slow for no reason and it looked like a build up to a harrowing finale (which turned out to fizzle like a tiny firecracker) and quite predictable and Lily is far too tall for these small girls to be playing anyone but Godzilla or a ginger King Kong, and the make-up department should be hung for turning her into a brunette and giving her a goofy Goth-chick makeover - as if all mysterious vampire moth ladies are into Goth fashion - which made her look unattractive which is quite a feat because she's actually quite pretty (as is Sarah), and this movie is sort of like a stylized version of a lesbian slasher flick and there's not much more else to say about this mediocrity.

The Moth Diaries is bad. Not bad in the Movie 43 way that necessitates a long, arduous rant. Just bad in the 'why would you bother?' kind of way.There's a smidgen of sexiness.Actually, that's a lie. We're just given a glimpse of a naked tit and a couple of girls and a bathtub. To be honest, The Moth Diaries is only titillating if you've never got past first base.There's a hint of vampirism.Nah, not really. There's nary a spiky tooth or a pointed thumbnail. The only horror on display in The Moth Diaries is the shocking lack of acting prowess, the dire script and the utter lack of reason. Oh, and the clumsiness of the direction. And the blood that, when it finally arrives, is the wrong colour, wrong consistency and clearly dyed water. Mind you, it fits perfectly in the film as everything is diluted beyond value.Periodically we are treated to pained expressions from the 'actors' but, though they probably represent the sum total of the mastery of their craft, they are nothing compared to the agony my companion and I suffered.The Moth Diaries isn't even so awful it's good (in a Gigli kind of way). It just stinks.It's not worth the effort to rant and I'm sure as hell not going to waste time telling you about the actors, director blah blah blah. If, unfathomably, you're intrigued then flick through the trailer but don't blow 82 minutes of your life on this tosh.To be fair, it's possibly the best film ever (since The Host) as long as you're a lobotomized twelve-year-old girl.For more reviews from The Squiss, subscribe to my blog and like the Facebook page.

Much better premise than a generic vampire film like twilight. The remote feeling of the boarding school translates well, as does the dissonant relationship between Rebecca and pretty much everyone else at the school. The ambiguity of the supernatural element embodied by Lilly Cole in her role as Ernessa leaves the viewer questioning what she is, all the way till the very end. At the end of the film it is indeed up to the viewer to decide that for themselves but you definitely find yourself questioning what kind of supernatural agency you are dealing with. As far as the relationship between the Moths and Ernessa, that seems to be more of a poetic expression than an actual supernatural impetus, at least as far as this viewer is able to interpret. As a fan of TV shows like the X-files I appreciated the mysterious approach to that aspect of the story.The main gripe I have with this film is it is simply not long enough. Making it feel like an extended pilot episode of an abandoned TV show. A film like this could easily have expanded on its premise for at least 2 hours. But it shares this flaw with many modern films, I just found it frustratingly short. It doesn't even hit the hour and 30 minute mark, the screen credits begin to role out at about an hour and 18 minutes in. Ever have a feeling that a film just ends too quickly? That is the feeling I got from this one. A shame because it could have been amazing. Instead it was just a fairly good but short supernatural suspense/thriller or whatever. Something I may revisit at some point, but not feeling that extreme magnetic pull as with other films of this kind due to its shorter than average length.

I really, really like short plaid skirts, and that whole English schoolgirl look, but I also liked this movie, tho it seemed a bit muddy at times.Lily Cole looked stunning in this film--very spooky indeed, and she deserved a better speaking part--she should have been allowed more screen time and development. I never understood whether she was a vampire, or a ghost. I never got from the story how she became a vampire. She seemed more of a ghost at the very end, despite her character's standard vamp demise.Sarah Bolger is a beautiful woman, and a pleasure to watch--I actually bought her kiss with the English professor--sometimes crazy passionate things like that just HAPPEN smack in the middle of a wild situation...and who could blame Scott Speedman's hapless professor?--Sarah Bolger was quite gorgeous in that school dress--femininity and sexual heat radiated when she walked into his office, and closed the door.....that seemed to be the money shot, strangely enough.Yes....I liked this movie for all the wrong reasons, but I was entertained thoroughly.