The Moth Diaries - 2011 ****

A surprisingly haunting and eerie film, and Lily Cole is just extraordinary to watch. She has a certain beauty to her that reminds me of a Japanese doll, with huge eyes and a tiny mouth.
She plays Ernessa, a mysterious girl who turns up at an all girls boarding school and gradually integrates herself into the middle of a close friendship between two girls. Ernessa isn't all that she seems however, and before long she is threatening the close bond the two girls already have.
I enjoyed the film a lot, found it tense, and found the Marina and the Diamonds track 'Numb' at the end summed up the whole ethereal quality of the film.

Red Lights - 2012 **

 

Erm no, this is nothing like 'The Sixth Sense'. That was good and genuinely haunting and scary. This is not. Robert De Niro plays a 'real psychic' who Weaver and Murphy are desperate to uncover as a fraud. They just don't seem to be able to find any hoax material on him. Slow, badly paced and the acting was unforgettable. Pointless.