Lovely Molly (2011)

Newlywed Molly moves into her deceased father's house in the countryside, where painful memories soon begin to haunt her.

Director:

Eduardo Sánchez

Writers:

Jamie Nash (screenplay), Eduardo Sánchez (screenplay)

Stars:

Johnny Lewis, Alexandra Holden, Gretchen Lodge

1 nomination.

Cast

Credited cast:
Johnny Lewis	...	Tim
Alexandra Holden	...	Hannah
Gretchen Lodge	...	Molly
Gray Ellis	...	Church Boy (as Tony Ellis)
Ken Arnold	...	Samuels
Lauren Lakis	...	Lauren
Todd Ryan Jones	...	The Demon
Daniel Ross	...	Victor
Katie Foster	...	Stacey
Brandon Thane Wilson	...	Spit Cup
Tara Garwood	...	Saleswoman / Mother
Dan Franko	...	Mall Man
Greg Cool	...	Ben Palmer
Alexis Savage	...	Young Molly
Mark Redfield	...	Ronnie's friend

Storyline

This film is about Molly and her new husband Tim. They've moved in to Molly's deceased parents house out in the country. But not long after they move in Molly starts getting haunted by forgotten memories, or so she thought. Her husband Tim is a truck driver and while he's away she starts seeing things and hearing things that she can't explain. She slips back in to old habits, involving drugs. Her sister Hannah gets worried about Molly, as is her Pastor, and her boss notices something is up too. But there is more to what is happening than most people know. It all comes out in the most horrific way, and not everyone is safe.

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Plot Keywords:

house | newlywed | bathtub | home movie | stabbed with a screwdriver | 

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Genres:

Drama | Horror

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for strong disturbing violence and grisly images, some graphic sexual content and nudity, drug use and language

Details

Official Sites:

Official site

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

29 June 2012 (Ireland)

Also Known As:

The Possession

Filming Locations:

Hagerstown, Maryland, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$1,000,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Amber Entertainment, Haxan Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

99 min

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

Gretchen Lodge won the 2012 Fright Meter Award for Best Actress for her performance.

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Soundtracks

"Lovely Molly"
Traditional Irish folk song
Performed by Sweet Leda

User Reviews

Eduardo Sánchez's new psyche-out horror flick is altogether spooky.

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). A crying woman confesses into a videocamera, capturing herself in a moment of distress and hoping to leave a clue to be discovered after she inevitably succumbs to an off-screen terror. 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. Molly's afraid to reach out to her sister or husband for help, fearing that they'll assume she's lapsed back into substance abuse. She instead begins to videotape her encounters, and it's this footage, as well as taped footage of someone stalking neighbours and visiting an odd underground shrine of some sort, that forms the frightening backbone of the film.

As Sánchez himself claimed in a post-screening q&a, the film is as much an "indie relationship" film and "actor's piece" as horror film. The entire weight of the film is on newcomer Lodge's back and she pulls the whole thing off dazzlingly well, transforming from a slight, trembling girl into a stalking, haunted and threatening woman crawling through an empty house. 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.