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Terms and conditions apply. * Savings buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Savings Account. * No ATM fees from Ally Bank at Allpoint and Moneypass ATMs plus we reimburse for fees charged by other ATM owners nationwide up to $10 per statement cycle. * Early direct deposit offers eligible direct deposits up to two days sooner. * Spending buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Spending Account. by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) Apr 20, 2012 6:56 PM UTC  Lily Cole Lily Cole IFC Films by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) Apr 20, 2012 6:56 PM UTC As the hunky new teacher (Scott Speedman) tells his students at a cloistered girls’ high school, every vampire story shares three elements: sex, blood and death. The first two items come up short in screenwriter-director Mary Harron’s oddly anodyne adaptation of the Rachel Klein novel. “I’m a very deep sleeper,” says _The Moth Diairies’_ teen vampire; but it’s the movie itself that’s unduly slumberous. Rebecca (Sarah Bolger), a sensitive girl wracked by her poet-father’s recent suicide, believes that the life of her BFF Lucie (Sarah Gadon) is getting vampirically sucked out by the black-clad English exchange student Ernessa (Lily Cole). Is Rebecca onto something, or is her private tragedy, mixed with her jealousy over losing Lucie to Ernessa, summoning the demons in her own mind? Could Rebecca be just another teen who takes literature too literally, transferring Lucy in Bram Stoker’s Dracula novel — one of the vampire’s most succulent victims — into her own friend Lucie? That’s the central issue of Klein’s book; but Harron soft-pedals the hallucination angle in favor of a standard reprise of repressed teen libidos and creatures of the night. [**(See the top 10 real-life monsters.)**](http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2092297%5F2092275%5F2092281,00.html) Lesbian vampires have long haunted the B-level horror genre, especially in the ’70s with such fangs-for-the-mammaries temptations as Roy Ward Baker’s _The Vampire Lovers_, Harry Kümel’s _Daughters of Darkness_ and José Larraz’s _Vampyres_. Setting such a tale in a girls’ school seems like inspiration: the early teen years, when a girl’s body may bloom before her mind can deciper the changes, and when friendships and love affairs both have volcanic impact, are a perfect age for a blend of fears and fantasies. It might point _The Moth Diaries_ toward the killer comedy of _Heathers_, the unleashed predatory unisexuality of _Jennifer’s Body_. Harron (who — fun fact — dated Tony Blair back in the ’70s) ought to be up to the challenge: she surely did right by _American Psycho_ a decade ago, casting Christian Bale as the Yuppie serial killer in her adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’s darkly comic novel. Harron’s _I Shot Andy Warhol_, with _Mad Men’_s Jared Harris as the artist and Lili Taylor as his would-be assassin Valerie Solanas, also had a roguish intelligence and a gift for x-raying the emotions of a troubled young woman. **(READ: Corliss’s** [**review of** **_American Psycho_**](http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,996639,00.html)**)** In her new film, she gets the superficial ambiance right: the school is dusty, with motes and moths fuzzing up the screen, and every night seems to have a full moon. But she sucks the psychic juice out of this tale, leaving only the pulp. She includes just enough glimpses of exposed flesh and violent death to earn the film an R rating, not enough to weave an entrancing spell. Harron’s approach here is similar to that of her 2005 bio-pic, _The Notorious Bettie Page_: a full-bodied subject with only a bloodless effect. **(READ: Corliss on** [**the real Bettie Page and** **_The Notorious Bettie Page_**](http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1187402,00.html)**)** Of the 20-something actresses playing 16-year-old girls, the Irish Bolger (such a charmer as a displaced kid in the 2002 _In America_) exudes a tremulous, sympathetic authenticity, and Gadon (Michael Fassbender’s straitlaced wife in _A Dangerous Method_) makes a fine, vulnerable Lucie. Cole, known primarily as a fashion model, has the right hauteur for a vampire-in-waiting; her giant eyes, tiny mouth and full-moon face make her look like a Betty Boop of the undead. 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