American Psycho director's "The Moth Diaries"!

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Director Mary Harron is returning to the genre as she'll begin filming this summer in Montreal on her adaptation of Rachel Klein's novel The Moth Diaries.

The novel tells the story of odd goings-on in a girls' boarding school in the late 1960s. The unnamed narrator, a student at the school, is intellectual, somewhat aloof and associates with a intense clique of girls. When Dora is found dead one night, a tragic accident is initially suspected.

Haunted by the death of her poet father, and coming to terms with the usual trials and tribulations of adolescence, the narrator of Klein's first novel is a boarder in an all-girls school in the 1960s. Less than usual are the series of events that unfold in her diary: the arrival of a new girl, Ernessa, who seems to have stepped out of a Gothic novel; the death in mysterious circumstances of two of the narrator's friends.

Are the events connected? The narrator thinks so, eventually believing that Ernessa is a vampire. Klein cleverly leaves the reader in the dark as to what has really taken place, while convincingly portraying the hothouse atmosphere of the school and the voice of the narrator - a voice which combines precocious literary detachment with Gothically inspired imagination.

A debut with promisingly subtle depths beneath its entertaining surface. Stay tuned to this thread for further news.

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IFC Films has finally released the official trailer for American Psycho director Mary Harron's The Moth Diaries, opening in limited theaters April 20.

No word on the VOD or DVD date. IFC typically releases their films in NYC theaters.

Starring Lily Cole, Scott Speedman, Sarah Gadon and Sarah Bolger, check out the trailer below, along with the official synopsis.

"Adolescence is and always will be a time of intense emotional confusion, especially if you spend it in a closed environment. That's the case with Rebecca, a young girl haunted by her father's suicide, who is a student at an exclusive female boarding school. She pours her heart out in a diary, much of it focused on Lucy, her beloved roommate. Their relationship changes drastically with the arrival of a mysterious new student, Ernessa. As Lucy abandons her for this new girl, Rebecca becomes consumed with thoughts of jealousy and suspicion -- Ernessa is dangerous, evil, a vampire. Is there any truth to all this or is Rebecca slipping into insanity?"

[Matthew T.]

Super stoked for this. Mary Harron is an absolutely brilliant director, and I'm looking forward to seeing what she does with THE MOTH DIARIES.