PHOTOS: Anatomy of a Snow White Smackdownīut as the plot piles up all manner of wildly histrionic developments, it becomes apparent that writer/director Harron - in her first feature since 2005’s The Notorious Bettie Page - expects us to take them at face value. Perhaps she’s even a vampire in the mold of the eponymous bloodsucker from Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla, the 1872 novel inaccurately described by Davies as “one of the originators of the Gothic tale.”įor much of The Moth Diaries, however, the key literary inspiration would seem to be Jane Austen’s 1817 wryly comic Northanger Abbey, in which an impressionable young woman mistakenly believes herself to be in the midst of a Gothic nightmare, as a result of reading too many fashionably lurid novels. Davies ( Scott Speedman), Rebecca comes to suspect that the strikingly mature Ernessa may have supernatural powers and origins. Studying Gothic literature in the class of dishy Mr. PHOTOS: The Scene at the Venice Film Festival ITV Posts Ad Revenue Drop of 10 Percent in First Quarter, Sees Second Quarter Down 12 Percent
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