Product Details

• Actors: Chace Crawford, Haley Bennett, AnnaLynne McCord, Nina Siemaszko, Marin Hinkle
• Directors: Mickey Liddell
• Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Subtitles: English, Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Studio: 20th Century Fox
• DVD Release Date: February 24, 2009
• Run Time: 82 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (35 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001PPGAIU
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #78,516 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Haunting of Molly Hartley" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

MOLLY HARTLEY LOOKS TO PUT HER TROUBLED PAST BEHIND HER WITH AFRESH START AT A NEW SCHOOL, WHERE SHE SPARKS WITH ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR STUDENTS. BUT CAN HER SECRETS STAY BURIED, ESPECIALLY AS SHE LEARNS MORE ABOUT THE HORRIFIC TRUTH THAT AWAITS HER ONCE SHE TURNS 18?

Customer Reviews

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12 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars not worth your precious time, May 17, 2009

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This review is from: Haunting of Molly Hartley (DVD)

...this is one of the most horrible films ever. There's no "plot" whatsoever, the "characters" were all scrambling around for nothing and a wasted watching time. Better go out and run around your house!

Totally not recommended at all.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Hauntingly BAD, March 1, 2009

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This review is from: Haunting of Molly Hartley (DVD)

This movie is Hauntingly BAD in every aspects.
The plot is ridiculous because it's so unreasonable. The acting and the dialogue are bland. There's no horror nor suspense. It's more like a drama than a horror. However, it also fails terribly as a drama. I don't feel a thing for the main character.

The director tried to make the film look different with a twisted and surprising ending. That only makes it worse.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Boo! Who?, August 9, 2011

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Michael J. Tresca "Talien" (Fairfield, CT USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Haunting of Molly Hartley (Amazon Instant Video)

Let's get a few things straight: Molly Hartley is not haunted.
Oh, she has her issues. She hears strange noises, has odd visions of murdered women, and comes saddled with a boatload of family dysfunction. But by the strict definition of actually being haunted, there's no spirits harassing poor Molly (Haley Bennett).

Her actual problem is a big spoiler, so I'll leave it simply that this movie isn't a ghost story but another movie form entirely, updated to take place in high school, when everyone is painfully hip, pretty, and gets what they deserve in the end.

Okay, not quite what they deserve. The Haunting of Molly Hartley is actually an anti-fundamentalist rant; it seems poor Hartley is the target of divinely-inspired assassins who believe she is the incarnation of evil that must be destroyed. One of them happens to be Molly's mother (Marin Hinkle), who was remanded to an insane asylum. Things go from bad to worse when Molly tries to start a new life in a new high school with her sad-sack father (Jake Weber).

Unfortunately for Molly, her high school seethes with stereotypes: The handsome jock who takes an inordinate interest in her (Chace Crawford); the queen bee who hates her; the rebel girl who allies with her. Notably, there isn't an unattractive soul in the bunch.

And that's the problem with a movie that has nothing to do with ghosts. Anyone expecting an actual haunting will be sorely disappointed by the somewhat mundane reality that at heart is every bad girl's dream: being badder than everybody else.

The Haunting of Molly Hartley uses random scares to substitute for actual horror, too-cool-for-school dialogue to make up for actual dialogue, and steals another plot entirely to make up for the distinct lack of spiritual activity. The real horror story here is high school, but the Haunting can't even get that right.