Lovely Molly (2011) User Reviews

My reaction at the end was wth?!

[artyom_aa · 6/10 · 18 September 2012]

Look the movie is creepy and got me suspended for a long time. It was successful in creating suspense and intensity but in my opinion fails to deliver a message or an ending.

There is a moment towards the end where Molly goes out to hug "someone" I am not gonna say it so I wont spoil it for you but I keep wondering what on earth did they think when they were making this scene! Another part that I will vaguely criticize is the struggle-less death that happened in the movie. It just doesn't make any sense.

Overall, I gave the movie 6 stars because it was exciting and creepy but I was pretty disappointed with the end and how things developed eventually.

Feels routine

[Leofwine_draca · 4/10 · 18 May 2015]

LOVELY MOLLY is a BLAIR WITCH follow-up from director Eduardo Sanchez. 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. It doesn't help that the characters, particularly the protagonist, are too unlikeable for me to enjoy the movie. Everything about this is greyed out and downbeat, and the segments filmed found footage style are intrusive; with found footage it's all or nothing. 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. Even worse, some of the stylistic choices are annoying in the extreme, such as the constant tinnitus-inducing ringing on the soundtrack. I appreciate what Sanchez was trying to do here but for me, it's a failure.

Not so lovely

[kosmasp · 4/10 · 5 March 2014]

Obviously the title is not meant literally. You also shouldn't be surprised if you start thinking this is another found footage movie. The movie was made by one of thinking heads behind "Blair Witch Project". But don't worry (or be happy?), this is not one of those movies. It actually is one of the regular horror movies.

The horror itself isn't that bad, though you will know where this is heading. The "twist" is a bit of a downer, almost bringing the whole thing down. On the other hand, some people might think this is funny. But what really was unnecessary was the ending. Just when you thought it should be over ... Cliché right around the corner

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

[thesubstream · 15 September 2011]

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.

Really? This is what I got myself into?

[nutz4you60 · 1/10 · 22 September 2012]

Let me start off by giving some positive credit. The actors performed fairly well. The main character was portrayed pretty well in a dark, depressing and sinister fashion. The unfortunate thing is that my compliments end there.

A newlywed couple move into the brides late fathers home with horrible results. The groom is employed as a truck driver and must leave his love all alone in their new home to battle her past. Her late father seems to be making contact with her and its not such a good thing as he was abusive. Molly, the bride, begins spiraling into madness it seem as daddy's back and up to his old ways. The groom being the supportive spouse try's to reach out to her and urge her to get help. He's never given much of an explanation as to what going on. The sister of the bride refuses to get sis some help. By the end of the movie you'll question your sanity due to the fact you sat through this dud. I wanted answers so I felt obligated to 'keep sniffing the turd'. Horse heads being cut out of pictures and pasted over daddy's face in photo albums made no sense to me. Why did she have the deer stored in the ceiling of the basement? What was the thing at the end that we're shown by way of extremely poor CGI? Did it help her move everyone's vehicles and the furniture out of the house? How can I contact it for my next move so I can have such quick and great results? This movie was horrible. Please don't waste your time. You'd be better of slamming you genitals in a drawer full of razor blades and salt.

Ambiguous Horror Movie

[claudio_carvalho · 7/10 · 4 April 2013]

The janitor Molly (Gretchen Lodge) marries the truck driver Tim (Johnny Lewis) and they move to the house of her deceased parents. Tim needs to drive and leaves Molly alone in the house. Soon Molly is haunted by her past and by her abusive father and she sees him in the house. Molly uses drugs again and records everything with her camera, expecting to prove that she is not crazy. Meanwhile, her sister Hannah (Alexandra Holden), Tim and his friend, Pastor Bobby (Field Blauvelt) try to help her, but Molly becomes dangerous and violent.

"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. This is basically the debut of the unknown Gretchen Lodge and she delivers a top-notch performance. The screenplay is a little messy and the director fails in the conclusion, and maybe this is the reason of the bad reviews in IMDb. My vote is seven.

Title (Brazil): "Adorável Molly" ("Lovely Molly")

Horror?? more like "Psycho thriller"

[felixmartinsson · 5/10 · 5 May 2013]

This was just a really tragic movie... I didn't think the content was good at all. I must say I was disappointed! The story seemed really interesting when I read about it, but I didn't expect this. Ther trailer was better then the movie. But then again the director of "The Blair Witch Ptoject" (didn't like that movie) what else could you expect? It like he does a movie and doesn't know what it's about until he ends shooting it and then it's too late to change the scenes. It feels like a low budget movie. But I must say the acting part was really good! I think they did a fantastic job, and I admire Gretchen Lodge for doing all those naked scenes.

What I think this kind of movie need is a different genre, something like "Psycho thriller" movie or something like that. Because this is not the kind of movie I expect to see whet it says horror.

Anyway, I DO NOT recommend this movie. It's not horrible but it's sad, and I think it will destroy your evening.

It creeps and creaks its way to an unexpected end

[gregsrants · 7/10 · 15 September 2011]

"Whatever happened, it wasn't me", says Molly in the opening shot as she holds a knife to her own throat. But exactly what happened and who it was by the film's end remains uncertain. 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. Within three months of their arrival at the home, unexplained phenomena begin to happen around the house. Door alarms go off in the middle of the night and footsteps could be heard throughout the structure. Molly's husband Tim (Johnny Lewis) does not have an explanation for some of the occurrences, but as a truck driver who is rarely at home, he leaves Molly in the house with the confidence that is must be 'the wind' or local kids playing a prank. Molly, however, continues to be victimized by what haunts the house. With Tim gone, she relies on her sister Hanna (Alexandra Holden) to provide her comfort but with a lack of sleep and feeling as if she is losing her grip on reality, Molly resorts back to injecting herself with drugs – an addiction thought beat before marriage. When Tim arrives home one evening he finds Molly naked staring at the ceiling in her room. She softly states "He's alive" and this statement will initiate an intensity in strange occurrences and violence that will lead to tragic results. Lovely Molly is a multi-layered horror film that mixes POV camera work into the film to give an authentic feel into a terrifying reality. Sánchez cast his film perfectly and Gretchen Lodge, as Molly, appears in just about every scene carrying the film on her naked back. The horror in Lovely Molly comes in small doses and intensifies as the plot develops. The audience is aware early that there is something wrong with Molly, but is it supernatural? Is she possessed? Or does her drug abuse have Molly realizing a non-existent entity? All these questions abound and the journey to some open-ended answers is worth the time investment. Eduardo Sánchez works the camera like a seasoned pro and is not quick to bring the story or any of the events to a quick resolve. Instead, the horror elements mount until Molly passes a point of no return and where family secrets haunt long after the death of her parents. 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. It doesn't attempt to go for the jugular or splatter the screen with scenes of gore that attempt to top the latest splatterfest. Instead, it stays true to its plotted course and reels in its audience – paying them back with an above average genre film the creeps, creaks and cringes its way to an unexpected end.

Don't watch it. Just don't.

[TheLostWeekend · 1/10 · 2 October 2012]

Let's be honest. Horror movies these days suck. But I saw this on Netflix, and I thought I'd give it a chance. "From the makers of The Blair Witch Project and The Lord of the Rings." Seems promising enough, right? Jesus, how wrong was I. How do I even begin. This movie is like an attack on your conscious being. It was like... like The Blair Witch Project on oxycontins. And how appropriate, since the same people who made that made this dribble. It was uncomfortable, unengaging, unentertaining, underwhelming, and anti-climatic as all hell. Though it was only 99 minutes, it seemed to go on for hours and hours. And you know, I have no problem with long movies, as long as they're entertaining. My god, I knew exactly what was going to happen next pretty much the entire movie. And towards the end, Jesus. A monkey could have guessed. Everyone dies, in the most predictable ways. A screwdriver to the back of the neck. Except for the very end, which made all of no sense. When she's walking outside, towards that wolf-owl-raccoon-horse thing... if you've seen the movie, you know what I'm talking about. But hey, who am I to judge the people who praise this garbage. If you like watching people walking suspensively through doorways while a never ending high-pitched static sound plays in the background (PS, be prepared to have a ringing in your ears for upwards of an hour after the movie), then damn, be my guest. If you're looking for a good horror movie, might I recommend: Suspiria, The Thing, Carrie, The Exorcist, or Christ, anything but this. Honestly, I wish she would have gone through with the suicide in the beginning of the movie. Would have saved me an hour and a half, and probably some brain cells. 1/10.

Part Blair Witch, part Paranormal Activity, (nearly) all scary.

[BA_Harrison · 7/10 · 5 September 2012]

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. Ultimately, the viewer is left to question whether Molly has lost her mind or whether there really was a supernatural explanation for her behaviour. Reaching a satisfactory conclusion ain't easy.

8 out of 10 for the first hour; 5 out of 10 for the rest (an average of 6.5/10 by my calculations, which gets rounded up to a 7 for IMDb).

Incredibly bad, do not waste your time.

[wollbratt · 1/10 · 4 August 2012]

Really? I was drawn to this movie for one simple thing..the producer of Blair witch, so it must be something at least, right. I really liked blair witch, it was original, had some really nice scares. Well, please keep away from this one, and don't waste any energy or time watching this terrible production. . This is a totally different sphere. I am amazed what a load of bulls"€t some producer can through out there, just because it has made it it before.

The movie just picture some mental breakdown of a gal, which tries to blend in a possession thing from her deceased dad. Well, I could have spun that off much better, with some scenes at least that would make it worthwhile. I am so frustrated I didn't stop watching after the first 10min of the movie, so you do yourself a favor and do not bother at all.

Gets under your skin

[edgure3 · 8/10 · 28 August 2012]

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. As a massive horror enthusiast who sees EVERYTHING, I can tell you there are only a few films per year that have the ability to get under my skin, and this is one of them. Although not a particularly sadistic or violent film, Molly's (newcomer Gretchen Lodge) descent into depravity is entirely convincing in a very realistic and unpleasant manor. Her back story is left intentionally vague, which makes the proceedings much more horrific. As horror fans we all know the downfall of over exposition...once we know exactly whats going on it's just not scary anymore. To say much more about the story could hinder one's viewing experience but I will say to make sure you CRANK your surround system or watch with headphones because the sound design is a vital part of the film. Many scenes feature sonic subtleties which could easily be missed, and constant attention to detail (take note of the crackle heard every time Molly drags a cigarette). So anyways, Lovely Molly has my vote for one of the year's best in horror, and I can't wait to see what's next for both Sanchez and Lodge.

A creepy little horror thats quite memorable.

[jonnytheshirt · 7/10 · 25 November 2013]

The fact that I intended to write a review of Lovely Molly then forgot and about it, and a year and a half later I am now is testimony to how memorable the movie is. On undoubtedly a low budget with not a huge cast the overall quality I was impressed with and a real star of the show was the sound design. Its a creepy slow, but not too slow burner that quite gets under your skin. As an avid horror movie goer I'm rarely scared however Molly and its wonderful sound really creeped me out. The movie centres around Molly and her apparent mental problems, and the movie does a great job of actually running the fine line of guessing are they mental issues or is there something else going on, strong performances from all the cast rounded off this great little flick. Highly recommended for those who enjoy creepy horror however be aware the subject of some issues in the movie are adult rated.

Boring, not scary, generally rubbish in every aspect

[James-509-810377 · 1/10 · 22 October 2012]

There was absolutely no point to that entire film. I cannot believe people have rated this anything other than 1 star.

Please please please don't waste your time like I just did.

Oh I have to write 10 lines.... Right...

Yes I agree the lead females acting is pretty good, but that doesn't make up,or the lack of storyline. I also got to the point where I actually didn't really care what happened to her anyway.

I watch a lot of horror movies but just can't see what the director was trying to do with this film. At no point did he build up any sort of tension or suspense. The most scared I got was when I had he urge to poke my eyes out and block up my ears so I didn't have to endure the final 30 minutes.

I've never written a review before (as I'm sure you can tell) but I have also never seen such a pis poor movie.

I think I've made my point.

Rant over!

Crap upon garbage mixed in with more crap!

[ducati103172 · 1/10 · 4 September 2012]

How much can I say this movie sucked? Not only was it implying the typical molestation and incest you see in most crappy movies. But it left you wondering WTF. This is such a horrible and lame ass attempt at some type of horror, suspense garbage the is no such reality to this movie what so ever. Straight up garbage. If you find any sense of realism or suspense, horror, originality or even straight up enjoyment you made need to get your head checked. I am so glad I only rented this piece of garbage. Please for the sake of all humanity do not watch or even entertain this movie. You would be better off watching me crap in a toilet it would be more intriguing.

Worth a look.

[Hey_Sweden · 7/10 · 20 November 2019]

Molly (Gretchen Lodge) is a janitor who marries Tim (Johnny Lewis), a long distance truck driver. They move into her old family home, but since Tim is away a lot of the time, it leaves Molly alone with her unpleasant memories of her youth; obsessed with filming things, she comes to believe that there is some unholy, spectral presence in the house.

Commendably, Eduardo Sanchez, best known for "The Blair Witch Project", never dips his toes all the way into supernatural waters, preferring to leave us with an ambiguous take on a young woman losing her sanity and her health. This is also a young woman so deeply traumatized that it doesn't take much to send her over the edge. Indeed, she is a former junkie who is soon using once again. And Tim and Molly's sister Hannah (Alexandra Holden) are at their wits' end trying to cope with Molly's behaviour.

The film does keep visual effects to a bare minimum, but gives lovers of more visceral horror some good gore to enjoy. What "Lovely Molly" really is, is a good "slow burn" type of psychological horror film, the kind we don't get all that often in an era where genre cinema typically depends on jump scares. One of its main assets is the sound design, which Sanchez had perfected with BWP and a minimal budget. It's guaranteed to keep some viewers on edge. The other major point of interest is a gripping, bravura central performance by Lodge, who makes Molly sympathetic enough to sustain the films' 100 minute run time. But the acting from all of the principals is engaging, including Field Blauvelt as the genial Pastor Bobby.

Location shooting in Maryland, cinematography, production design, and music are all well done, but ultimately take a back seat to the journey undertaken by our haunted main character.

Seven out of 10.

An awful waste of time

[TdSmth5 · 2/10 · 13 October 2013]

Molly and Tim get married. They are working class, she's part of the cleaning crew of a mall, he's a truck driver. They move in to her family home, where her dad died.

Three months after, doors suddenly end up mysteriously opened at night, someone or something starts banging on doors furiously. Tim is out working but Molly has her sister Hannah who lives nearby and who works with her. Molly starts for no good reason to film things. She walks into the cellar, there's something there that groans, in another room something makes sounds calling her and she extends her arm.

We learn that Molly has a history of drug abuse and was apparently molested by her father. Now Molly starts losing it. She hears steps, and a voice. At work she's on tape acting as if she's being raped but no one is there. 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. She kills or finds a dead deer, and films it, she becomes obsessed with a neighbor and her daughter and films them. At another time when Tim returns from a trip she nearly chews his face off, she tries to seduce a pastor. But a dr. finds nothing physically wrong with her.

Now she finds a screwdriver and things get bloody. 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. At best it would have made a good short if filmed in POV because that's what this director likes. This is basically a POV movie filmed in mostly in third person perspective with some bits of POV. The way "the story" is told is if it were one of those dreadful lost footage movies. And that's how the intro starts, too. So we get endless scenes that are meaningless and pointless, dialog that goes nowhere. And as with all lost footage movies all it can offer is an ending that is surprising, comes out of nowhere and answers nothing.

But there is a basic problem, that writers/directors don't get- movies about someone going mad are just not fun, entertaining, nor intriguing, or interesting, because you just know that nothing is going to come of it- no matter what happens at the end. And this movie suffers even more because we simply don't care about Molly. We've been given no reason to like her. Tim I guess is likable and so is Hannah, but still, the viewer is given no reason to invest emotionally in the characters.

Add to that how slow, lame, long, and boring this movie is, and you're left with basically nothing to like. I try to be generous in my reviews, but this was one the dullest movies I've seen with barely any redeeming quality. I give it a score of 2, for Gretchen Lodge's excellent performance and for the scene of nudity. Otherwise Lovely Molly is an utter failure and yet another reason to stay away from any other project this director is involved in- if the Blair Witch scam wasn't reason enough already.

A Pleasent Unpleasant Surprise.

[laurabh-89241 · 7/10 · 26 October 2021]

I had been looking for something different to watch for The Halloween Season when I ran across this movie on Tubi. I seldom find Horror movies worth watching, ones that make you feel something,;frightened, dread, creepiness factor, etc. This had all of that. Though cringy at times, It kept my interest from beginning to end. Yes it has The Blair Witch/Paranormal Activity thing going, but I didnt mind that. A box office flop definately worth watching.

Narrow, unoriginal and boring

[KineticSeoul · 3/10 · 22 January 2013]

This is a tedious and generic horror flick that isn't original. It's just dull to watch, it's by the makers of the "The Blair Witch Project" a movie I am not fond of. It tries to incorporate standard horror movie cinematography with found footage aspects of it and it still comes off dull. 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. Yeah, it sounds very cliché for horror movie buffs out there and this one really is narrow. It doesn't throw anything new or shocking for that matter. The tension sort of builds up for very few scenes and leads to disappointment. It tries to blend elements from the "Paranormal Activity" franchise but it's not all that effective. Although I am not fond of the "paranormal Activity" franchise either. The ending is a big let down and I was like "what the crap so is that it?". Some horror movies are effective by not giving away of what is exactly going on sometimes. But that isn't the case here, I was getting annoyed because I wasn't entirely sure what was really going on and what is behind the weird stuff that is going on. The special features part of the DVD gives a bit of back-story but the audiences shouldn't have to go to the special features to be a bit slightly satisfied. In fact the special features part of the DVD is way better than the actual movie itself. And it's kinda comedic unintentionally of course as well. The weird static noise in this gets more annoying instead of getting gradually creepy.

3.6/10

Unbelievably good turn by Gretchen Lodge, Sanchez is back in fine form, doing what he does best

[bob_meg · 3 November 2012]

Lovely Molly has got to be one of the most disturbing psychological horror films ever made, on a par with Polanski's finest, like the Tenant and Repulsion.

It's effective because it's completely plausible: it doesn't rely on cardboard bogeymen or elaborate SFX to make it's point. It merely focuses on the after-effects of emotional and physical abuse as they turn an emotionally healthy, recovering addict (Gretchen Lodge) into a raving, violent, hallucination-seeing junkie who's a threat to everyone around her, including herself.

Many have said this, it's impossible to understate the brilliance of Gretchen Lodge in the title role. Actually, ALL the actors are great (Alexandra Holden and Johnny Lewis are sympathetic and believable), and Sanchez directs them all with a very easy naturalistic, almost documentary feel. Many of the techniques (showing, not telling) that he had on display in Blair Witch are here, but they almost work even better when played to only one actress, with a limitless range for playing emotion.

Yes, it's depressing and a bit hopeless to watch, but...that's truly the real horror most of us dread the most, each day.

Full on twisted dark & nasty!!!!......Loved it !

[matti107 · 7/10 · 16 August 2012]

Was not sure what to expect with this one as many good and bad reviews? But I loved it, Edge of the seat Dark, Scary, Twisted.

What I found most impressive about Lovely Molly, was enabling viewers to immerse themselves in what's happening, is how Sánchez is able to instantaneously blur the boundary between reality and imagination. It's made clear that something sinister is haunting Molly and causing her mental breakdown, but always left to our own interpretation as to what this actually is, whether it is supernatural or, in fact, Molly's own fragmented mind playing nasty tricks on her.

Loved it, say no more!

You sick F&^%^s the lot of you!

[OrderedChaos · 1/10 · 29 August 2012]

Written Directed and Edited? Should be ashamed of himself! What was the intentions when creating this filth? Was there any point to this crap? Seriously in the beginning it seemed to have potential especially from the creator of Blair Witch.

The fact that people reviewed this with so many stars blows my mind! I mean a bit of gore maybe some sexual content to keep the teens happy but wtf people seriously? 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! Avoid at all costs if you prefer a little story and reasoning to the madness.

I mean House of a 1000 corpses made more sense than this crap! Sorry sick fans but this was really bad!

Gretchen Lodge is captivating in Lovely Molly

[leavesofautumn · 9/10 · 12 November 2011]

Lovely Molly is the tale of one woman's painful past returning to take hold of her once more just as she begins her marriage to her new husband in her family's old home. 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.

The bond with her sister, played by Alexandra Holden is believable and real, the interactions between the two women showing the conflicting feelings of fear and love as they both struggle with the changes in Molly and the memories of the past.

Thick with tense moments, Lovely Molly is eerie, tragic, and disturbing but not rife with gore or shocks designed to make you jump in your seat. Instead, there is a sense of inevitable dread that hangs in the air throughout the entire film. The house itself is as much a character in the film as those who inhabit it. Every small old room, creaking doorway, bit of chipped paint and worn wood seems to hold the promise of something sinister.

And that is a promise that does not go unfulfilled.

I'm not in control anymore!!

[lojitsu · 7/10 · 15 June 2017]

A-Z Horror Movie of the Day..."Lovely Molly" (R - 2011 - US)

Sub-Genre: Paranormal/Psycho

My Score: 7.0

Cast=5 Acting=8 Plot=7 Ending=8 Story=6 Scare=7 Jump=6 F/X=7 Creep=8 Psycho=8

A 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... I'm not in control anymore." Is it Paranormal or Psychological? I can't say for sure...could be a bit of both. It was a bit slow, but there were several things I liked. There is full frontal nudity and a kill scene that gave me chills. I thought Gretchen Lodge got really creepy toward the end...me likey!

Not so Lovely

[kristo-bisto · 3/10 · 7 April 2013]

I really don't mind a slow starting horror film that takes some time to build up suspense - if it makes it worth your effort. Lovely Molly does not. I should start with the positives - the cinematography is okay, and the acting wasn't terrible (nor was it good mind)and I actually liked the first 45 mins or so. Now to the bad...

For a start the title confuses me, I don't think anyone refers to her as lovely in the entire film. It wouldn't be hard to fit that in, but that isn't that important. What is important is an ending, too many people are putting out films with beginnings, middles and scary music but NO ENDING. There are so many unanswered questions... Why does it happen? Is her dad there? What did he do to them when they were young? Abuse? Whats with the horse heads? Or the weird tree man at the end? Why biting? Is it all in her head? Why would a priest go down on her.... so strange. It is really infuriating that there is not even a hint of an answer to these questions. If you literally can't think of a single thing to do with your time than watch an uninteresting, unconvincing, open-ended weird horror (using the term in its loosest possible way) then I would grab the popcorn and get cracking. Other than that - don't bother watching it.