Lovely Molly

Plot synopsis:
The film opens with a video recording of Molly apologizing for her actions and attempting to slit her throat with a knife. The date is October 16, 2011, and much of the movie is revealed in flashback via video. The film proceeds with the events during the wedding of Tim (Johnny Lewis) and Molly (Gretchen Lodge), after which the couple move into Molly's childhood home with the help of Molly's sister, Hannah (Alexandra Holden).
Not long after the wedding, the couple are startled in their sleep when the alarm system buzzes. They call the police but the officer finds no evidence of forced entry. Shortly afterwards, Tim, a truck driver, must leave town for a few days, leaving Molly, a recovering heroin addict, alone. The film is then interspersed by images from a video camera where someone, most likely Molly, wanders the house, and reveals a hidden underground shrine in the shed. While in her childhood room, she hears something in her closet, although it is not revealed who is inside. Upon his return, Tim discovers Molly naked and staring blankly into one corner of her bedroom. She seems delusional and later cannot remember telling him "he is alive."
Molly begins to record a little girl and her mother who live not far from her house. One night, Molly hears a noise from the backdoor and tries to lock it, but is suddenly pushed back by an unknown force. Shortly afterwards, at work, Molly hears someone whispering her name. A man begins to quietly sing the traditional song "Lovely Molly", accompanied by the sound of hooves. The next day, Molly is summoned by her boss, who shows Molly the surveillance camera footage, which seems to show Molly being sexually assaulted by an unknown force. Molly becomes hysterical and is sent home with her sister.
Molly's condition turns worse, filming and talking to a dead deer, and attempting to seduce the local pastor. Fearing for her safety, Tim takes Molly to the doctor, but is advised she is healthy physically. That night, Molly attacks Tim and bites his lips, nearly pulling them off before fleeing. Terrified, Tim calls Hannah, who urges him to seek medical care. In the basement, Hannah finds that Molly has been keeping a rotting deer, which she stabs repeatedly, screaming that their father told her how Hannah killed him. Hannah replies that she was protecting herself and the young Molly from their father, and begs her to come stay with her and her son Peter. Molly refuses and then begins giggling, saying that if she does, her father will gut Peter 'from belly to throat.'
More video is shown, spying on the young girl's family. The video pans and a distraught Tim sits with the mother on the couch. It is clear they are familiar, and the mother begins oral sex on Tim. A car pulls up the drive and it is revealed to be Pastor Bobby: Molly emerges from the house naked and the two embrace. Shortly afterwards, Pastor Bobby is seen in the bathtub, dead and covered in blood and bites. Tim goes back to the house and finds the video camera left playing on the bed, showing a recording of himself with the neighbour. Molly strikes him across the head with a bat, drags him downstairs, and kills him by stabbing him in the head with a screwdriver, the same way Pastor Bobby was killed. Another video edit shows the police in the woods digging, pulling away to reveal the body of the young girl. The mother sobs, and Molly slips away. Afterwards, Molly lies naked and sobbing on the floor until her attitude abruptly changes and she shows a half smile. She walks out of the backdoor naked towards a tall figure with glowing eyes, a horse head and body of a man (resembling the demon Orobas).
In the aftermath, the couple's house is up for sale. There is no clear answer as to Molly's whereabouts or her disappearance, but time has clearly passed. In their old bedroom, Hannah finds the family photo album on the floor. Flipping though the pages, she sees that their father's face has been covered with horse heads from his frame collection. Hearing a noise from the closet, she opens it and in a trance-like state reaches her arm towards something unseen, similar to Molly's discovery earlier.

Tags: paranormal, murder, home movie

Review:
"Lovely Molly" is an ambiguous horror movie where it is not clear whether Molly is possessed by the evil spirit of her abusive father or whether she is mentally ill, after an incident with Tim and a neighbor a couple of days after her birthday.
Director Eduardo Sánchez begins his newest spooky feature Lovely Molly with a deliberate shout out the the film that brung him here, The Blair Witch Project (co-directed with Daniel Myrick).
Sánchez hasn't returned exactly to his old stomping ground of first-person documentary horror - Lovely Molly is for the most part a spooky old fashioned psyche-out horror film - but it's a nice touch in a film filled with them.Molly and new husband Tim (Gretchen Lodge and Johnny Lewis) are ripped from sleep in their new inherited home by a squalling alarm.
Someone has opened their back door and is thumping around in the kitchen, but police find nothing out of the ordinary and chalk it up to the wind despite Tim's insistence that he locked the door.He's a truck driver, and is away from home for stretches of time in which Molly is left alone to deal with a growing malignancy, a presence in the house that manifests itself as sung voices, crying children, clomping horse hooves and slamming doors.
It's a performance good enough, combined with Sánchez's legitimate gift for crafting arresting moments of weird, totemic and animalistic horror, to transcend the film's kind of tired "is it a ghost or a hallucination" set-up, and take the whole thing into straight-up spooky, straight-up original territory..
OK, so I know the reviews for this one have been pretty mixed, but for fans of psychological horror that don't mind an ambiguous story line, I highly recommend Lovely Molly.
Molly's transformation throughout the film is beautifully played by Gretchen Lodge, each bit of her turmoil peels back another layer of her past and the horror unraveling around her.
She films many things on a hand-held camera.The latest film from Eduardo Sánchez, one of the co-directors of The Blair Witch Project, is a different kind of horror film from that one but with similarities.
But that's where the similarities end, as Lovely Molly is a much more traditional supernatural horror movie.
In it, a newly wed couple movie back to the childhood home of the wife, only for her to start experiencing flashbacks and hallucinations as dark secrets from her past are dug back up again.This is a slow burning, atmospheric horror film that unfortunately misses the mark too often for me.
The opening scene with the burglar alarm going off is the only one which is truly menacing.The whole mysterious "secrets from the past" aspect of the storyline is an all-too-familiar one from a lot of modern horror movies and there's just too little incident here to attract my attention.
Her parents both dead, Molly (Gretchen Lodge) moves into her childhood home with trucker husband Tim (Johnny Lewis); but while Tim is away at work, Molly begins to experience terrifying occurrences that make her believe that she is being haunted by the spirit of her abusive father.
As the terror mounts nightly, Molly—an ex-junkie—finds herself returning to her old habits for comfort...Eduardo Sánchez's Lovely Molly begins with a close-up of a distraught Molly speaking directly to her video camera—a scene that directly references Heather Donahue's classic monologue from Sánchez's 1999 hit The Blair Witch Project; it's a rather amusing move by the director, one that blatantly acknowledges the similarities in technique and style between his new film and that with which he first made his name.Thankfully, despite a very familiar feel to proceedings throughout (particularly thanks to a fair amount of shaky hand-held video footage), Lovely Molly does mark another level of progression for Sánchez as a film-maker: it is a technically superior piece to Blair Witch, the plot being far more complex and the production more polished, but more importantly, it sees the director using tricks developed on his first few films much more effectively, taking the terror to new heights.Certainly for the first hour or so, Lovely Molly succeeds in being one of the scariest movies in a long while, Sánchez using his tried and trusted bag of tricks—creepy noises, impenetrable blackness, a well developed sense of vulnerability—to ramp up the tension to pant-wetting levels; he is aided in no small part by a fine central performance from Lodge (who is indeed very lovely!) and excellent sound design which adds immensely to the eerie atmosphere.Sadly, the nearer the film approaches the end, the less it succeeds in chilling the spine: Sánchez slowly loses his grip on proceedings, with way too many plot details hurriedly brought into play, and the ambiguous nature of the narrative leading to utter confusion rather than fright.
The ads for Lovely Molly would like you to believe that one of the makers of Blair Witch project has redefined the horror genre once again.
And thats the thing about this movie so many of the elements beg for a slightly better execution if it had been done just a bit finer it could have been a true horror masterpiece still what stands is a great genre film with some of the most disturbing imagery seen well since the blair witch project.
The plot is about a newlywed couple that moves into a house that has a lot of dark history behind it and weird things starts to happen to the wife named Molly.
I watch a lot of horror movies but just can't see what the director was trying to do with this film.
I don't normally bother writing reviews, but this film was very good and I wanted to comment to help counter some of the negative reviews on here.I really don't have anything of substance to add except a couple of subjective comments.I watch a lot of horror and know bad when I see it, and this is anything but bad.Gretchen Lodge's performance is amazing.I rank her performance and this movie right up there with:Jennifer Lawrence - Winter's Bone, Katherine Waterston - Enter Nowhere, Angela Bettis - May, The Woman -FWIW.
Saw, Hostel and the like i can understand why certain people get a kick out of it but even that has a point or kind of story.If you thought Texas chainsaw massacre or the hills have eyes was too soft watch this crap.Please if your aiming for a horror or have a general interest in this movie due to the reviews avoid at all costs.Maybe I started watching this movie with the wrong idea of what it was going to be but the reviews lead me to believe this was worth it.I think I'm rambling now due to being so annoyed with how bad this film was!
I am sorry if this review disappoint anyone who was anticipating the movie or really was preparing it for a good night psychological horror film...The minute you pause, go for a telephone call or smoking a cigarette, the moment you discover that the movie that you're watching is a waste of time...
at least this is how it work for me !!Final scoring: Movie 3/10 Director 3/10 Scares 0/10 Gore 2/10 Casting 4/10Avoid if you really loved the Blair witch and you do not want to ruin this nice feeling..
When Tim returns he finds he drug paraphernalia but it's never clear if she's using again or not.Molly now starts acting more erratically, and things go downhill further for them and the movie.
It all ends with not one but two 'what the hell' moments, that come out of nowhere and don't answer much either.Lovely Molly is a disaster or a movie on all levels.
This is directed by Eduardo Sanchez, who's probably most famous for "The Blair Witch Project." The use of Molly filming herself made me think this was just going to be another in a long line of movies that have now used the same device.
I would propose that a better understanding of brain injury (which the character suffers prior to the death) adequately explains the character's physical incapacitation.If you like supernatural horror that doesn't spoon-feed you explanations for every plot detail, and do not require every other frame to burst with expensive CGI, I think you'll find Lovely Molly quite satisfying..
By branching off, by breaking new ground, and by giving us a terrifying little character study of a horror like Lovely Molly, which has unsettled me like no other in the past couple years since I've seen it.
It is true that this film does not actually explain itself and that there are aspects to it which may seem odd on their own if you don't have a tendency to use your imagination rather than wait for an answer.I certainly wouldn't presume to tell others how they should watch and enjoy horrors so I understand there will be people out there who do not like to be left hanging or who at least want a film to be more clear than "Lovely Molly" is but I would argue that this is not a reason to down-rate it as much as it has been.
The suggestions made about the personal background of the main character Molly (Gretchen Lodge)were disturbing, especially her childhood, and there are a few uncomfortable scenes which in my opinion were done quite well.ACTING: I felt that the acting was pretty solid, although I'm not an expert.CAMERA/SHOTS: There are some scenes which are experienced through a hand-held camcorder and it was interesting to have that along with the "normal" scenes.
Newlywed Molly and husband Tim move into the house left to them by Molly's deceased mother, where a dark secret and unexplained happenings begin to haunt Molly.ReviewI watched this in the hope that it would be a half decent return to form for Eduardo 'The Blair witch...' Sanchez, instead it surprised me by being quite easily the best horror movie I have seen all year.
The central performance from Gretchen Lodge is absolutely perfect, totally believable and incredibly sympathetic, the scenes that she shares with Johnny Lewis (also excellent) as her new husband give the movie a very solid emotional core, and as outside forces conspire to destroy this young couple it becomes hugely upsetting, heartbreaking even.
In closing, 'Lovely Molly' is a movie that I can imagine dividing audiences in much the same way as the 'Blair witch...' did over a decade ago, but for me it's nothing less than a minor masterpiece and proof positive that horror movies still have the power to scare me witless.
Very disappointing as this film maker is obviously lazy and cant think of a plot to make the film end well.This could of been a much better film if it was made better, this is why horror films are just not horror films anymore people have lost there imaginations when it comes to scare tactics so use the invention of ghosts and such in films.For anyone who is thinking of watching this film Don't its not worth wasting your time on :).
I've never seen Gretchen Lodge in a movie before, but I instantly wanted to know what else she'd been in after watching Lovely Molly.
the actress Gretchen lodge is brilliant (y) its is also good to see it from her point of view, IE other paranormal films give you the sense of something ghostly being there but with this movie ,as its her herself being haunted, i think that makes it more frightening, the fact that ,no us viewers don't see anything, hence imaginations going crazy trying to figure it out.
This is definitely one of Eduardo Sánchez's worst movies and it's actually hard to believe it's the same Eduardo Sánchez that co-directed, produced, and wrote the fantastic Blair Witch Project.The film starts off decent enough, and it doesn't take long for the story to start developing and moving along.
While I don't mind it, I'm not a 'gore freak' and it's not the first thing I look for when wanting to see a movie...in fact, I look for a good story first before gore, but if the story is all over the place, too boring to enjoy, or really just not very good - like Lovely Molly - then there is just no hope of enjoyment no matter what.Story & gore aren't the only things lacking here either as it's not even very creepy, which was disappointing considering who the director is and that it's supposed to be a supernatural/psychological horror.
For me, the only things Lovely Molly has going for it is that it's pretty well acted out and some of the atmosphere generated isn't too bad.Other than that, this film is a massive let down..
'LOVELY MOLLY': Three Stars (Out of Five)Eduardo Sanchez (co-director of 'THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT', one of my all-time favorite horror films) directed and co-wrote this dark and disturbing horror film.
I found the atmosphere and acting to be great but the story to be boring and the film itself to be rather a mess.Gretchen Lodge stars as Molly, a young woman who just moved into the house of her dead father, in the country, with her new husband Tim (Johnny Lewis).
What really worked is that you feel sorry for Molly from being a nice and normal girl starting to see things (her dad) from the dead once she returns with her husband to her old house.
But, the spooky goods far out weigh the bad and Lovely Molly is a genuinely creepy and unsettling horror film from the Blair Witch co-helmer..
The movie "Lovely Molly" is a surprising film as it explores the deep dark crevasses of the human mind when experiencing trauma.
After moving into her childhood home, a newlyweds' psychological trauma from the past returns to haunt her and her husband as they come to realize they are not alone in the house and must try to save her sanity.This was an overall mess of a horror film that barely has anything worthwhile going for it.
This time we're told that the writer/director of the cult classic which 'redefined the horror genre' (depending on your opinion of three kids running round a wood at night) is at the helm of this latest frightfest 'Lovely Molly.' Once again, the use of 'first person filming' is used for Lovely Molly, which tells the story of a newlywed couple who move into an old house in the middle of nowhere.
However, when the husband is away driving for work, strange (and definitely not so lovely) things start to happen to Molly.First of all the good: the performances.
The husband is largely away and Molly spends much of her time experiencing things on her own (then going and telling her sister about it every few days).The main problem with the film is that, although well-acted, it's really nothing we haven't seen before, i.e. walk round a creepy house and then get grabbed by some unseen supernatural force.Yes, there's a story woken in there somewhere, but, ultimately, there's nothing new enough here to really make it stand out.
This isn't a surprise considering other films they have done in the past such as "The Blair Which Project 1 & 2, and Altered." The story goes like thisnewlyweds Molly (Gretchen Lodge) and Tim (Johnny Lewis), move into the bride's creepy childhood home.
The only support she has when Tim is gone, is her sister (Alexandra Holden).The film's biggest thrill is that it presents a question"Is it real or all in her head?" For the majority of the film, Sanchez and Jamie Nash play with our heads showing us Molly's darkest secretsabandonment issues, drug addiction, the way the males in her life behave, and the house's sinister past.
Lovely Molly is a good movie, as long as your don't need everything answered for you.
Lovely Molly is the new film by Eduardo Sánchez, the brilliant director  behind 1999's The Blair Witch Project.
The film stars Gretchen Lodge as  Molly, a beautiful newlywed that moves into her old home with her  husband after the death of her father.
Lovely Molly ends up being one of those great horror films where if  watched in the right frame of mind and at the right time of night can  really scare the bejezus out of you.
The scene were Molly is raped on CCTV is one the most frightening things I've seen in a modern horror film.
A-Z Horror Movie of the Day..."Lovely Molly" (R - 2011 - US)Sub-Genre: Paranormal/PsychoMy Score: 7.0Cast=5 Acting=8 Plot=7 Ending=8 Story=6 Scare=7 Jump=6 F/X=7 Creep=8 Psycho=8A newlywed moves into her deceased father's house in the countryside, where painful memories soon begin to haunt her."Whatever it's done, I'm...
Unlike most modern horror movies which rely heavily upon special effects, Lovely Molly is a very minimalist film.
It should be sad and bleak.Lovely Molly isn't particularly scary, although it probably still classifies as a horror film, given the ending.
LOVELY MOLLY is a slow and smoldering ghost story about Molly(Gretchen Lodge)and her new husband Tim(Johnny Lewis)experiencing eerie disturbances after moving into Molly's deceased father's country home.
Look, I'm an atheist, so this whole good-vs-evil Bible nonsense makes no sense to me anyway, but there has to be some measure of logic even in supernatural horror flicks, otherwise any moron (this horses**t writer) could write anything he wants to (this movie) and get away with it (were it not for my reviews).LM is so bad, I'd rather have seen a dumb sex-romp called "Lovely Molly Makes a Porn Film" with Ron Jeremy in the director's chair.
Not the worst film but so many loose ends, this is at the start a predictable horror/possession movie with some decent acting, although the character Tim is weak.
Lovely Molly was not the worst horror film I've ever seen; not by a long shot.