Friday, January 16, 2009

The Haunting Of Molly Hartley

This was one of the three movies I missed in 2008 so I'm glad to finally see it and bring myself closer to my goal, despite being a month late in doing so.

The films starts off pretty well. The cinematography is solid and I was hoping for a great film with the opening scene. And then it goes the cliched route of dreams and other lame stuff.

The film is about a girl whose mother stabs her when she is a kid and now her mother has been put away and she's starting a new life in a new school. Think of Mean Girls meets The Omen but it does neither of those films justice.

The acting is solid for this type of film but the plot is all over the place and the cliched characters become annoying. The bad girl with ripped clothes, the religious freak ect. The biggest problem is that not only does the film have everything ruined in the trailer, which is what I was figuring on anyway but the ending itself comes out of nowhere and makes no sense. It rushes through the final minutes and I was left really confused as to what had just happened.

Not worth the time. Horror fans will be let down by there being no horror, hauntings or demons. At least this is a better effort than 2007's October Horror film, don't remember the name but it had Paranormal Hour in it's title and featured really bad acting.

Entertainment Value - 1/5

Movie - 1/5

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