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Haunting of Molly Hartley

5 star:		(4)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(6)
2 star:		(9)
1 star:		(14)

 

 

...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.

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.

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.

The whole plot of this film is horrible and cheesy. It really deserved all of the negativity that it got. It's not good at all. It's more of a drama than a thriller-horror if it even is a thriller at all. It's not even good, and there's only one creepy scene; when she looks into the mirror and a creepy face is right next to her. That's the only relatively scary scene. It looks more like a show on the CW than a horror movie, seriously. I also don't like that weird athiest message at the end either. SPOILER: Basically like everyone was demonic, or some crap like that. It's really absolutely nothing you should waste your time on.

SHORT ATTENTION SPAN SUMMARY (SASS)
1. A troubled girl goes to a new school
2. Her 18th birthday is approaching
3. She begins having freaky nightmares
4. She's possessed by some devil
5. Say "Jesus" around her and... well, yeah.
6. The audience walks out

Words can't describe this terrible movie. This isn't scary, it's funny. It's mainly a teen drama with exorcisty stuff in it. Demonic possession here, Demonic possession there, etc. We even have the Zack Efron lookalike (haircut and all). And the jump scares are just laughable.

Overall, avoid this piece of crap.

This movie is misleading.on the back it says rosemarys baby is grown up but the films have nothing in common.rosemarys baby was at least interesting even in the slow parts this movie is just horrible from start to end.NO thrills or chills,no creepy elemnts what so ever,no kills,and worst of all no acual haunting,i mean what were they thinking when they made this crap?DONT make the mistake i did by watching the movie,its an hour and a half youll NEVER get abck in your life.stay way...far far away.

I was really disapointed in this movie . it kept me interested through the whole movie and even made me jump a couple of times . the problem was that the whole movie was about one girl getting scared all the time so after a few good scares it started to get to repetitive . just a bunch of pop up's . but even that would've probably gave this movie a 4 star rating . the reason why I gave it a 2 star was because even though the movie kept me interested it had a horrible ending . this is one of those movies where the ending ruined the whole movie . it would probably be worth no more than $5 to buy just because it was good up til the end .

Its just a shame that these days all movies that are advertised as being ghost movies are really movies about demons. I believe in ghosts not demons. I hate movies that try to pretend they are about one thing when really they are about something else. Like the Paranormal Activity movies. Those trailers and plot outlines make you think its about a ghost, but nope, the work of a demon.Therefore I generally don't give a flying frick about these sorts of films. This really came across as a movie for 12 year olds with nothing really going on. Nothing special and no replay value for me. I won't be watching it again. BUT, its not the worst movie I've ever seen. For a more in-depth review visit my horror movie/book review blog in my profile.

This movie was very good, but comparing it to Carrie is ludicrous. For those of you who remember those late night made-for-tv thriller movies in the 70's, should really enjoy this.

I love movies and will watch just about anything. I'm definitely a big fan of psychological horror. I'm not above loving bad movies just for their entertainment value, so I guess you could just say I'm not super picky...

Unfortunately this movie wasn't very good. It also wasn't scary, AT ALL and I am a total scaredy cat. There was one scene that startled me, but it was for about 2 seconds. That was also the only scene I recall with any kind of special effect. I'm not crazy into special effects one way or another, but for those who look for that, theres not much at all.

I popped it in at least figuring I would recognize some of the cast from things like 90210, Gossip Girls and Medium. It wasn't terribly bad acting, just a boring horror script, nothing unique or new.

Molly Hartley is almost killed by her mother, who is now in a psych ward for attempting to out of the blue murder her daughter. Dad takes her to a new town to get a 'fresh' start, but she's hallucinating(or is she?) and having panic attacks etc etc, is she crazy like her mother?? Has a religious aspect to the ending. Whatever.

That's the premise for the most part. Feels like it's been done a million times over. The special features also were boring. A couple of cast interviews but no making of featurettes, which I usually will watch even if I hated the movie to try and see at least why they bothered to make it.

Lastly...whomever did the cover art has got to have a beef with AnnaLynne McCord(90210, top left of the cover), she's a pretty girl and they made her look like she just shoved a box of twinkies in her mouth!!