Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on August 2013

Things start going awry for Rebecca (Sarah Bolger) the moment a creepy new student (Lily Cole) arrives at her girls’ school. One by one, her friends fall ill or are expelled for inexplicably naughty behavior, and worse, her BFF (Sarah Gadon) seems to be enamored by the odd newcomer, who’s acting a lot like a bloodsucker. Directed by Mary Harron, who brilliantly adapted American Psycho, this gothic brew, based on Rachel Klein’s young adult novel, is a hormonally charged yet pallid attempt to inject a bit of latent lesbianism into the old teenage vampire shtick. Some good acting, but no real bite.