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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
To be fair I wasn't expecting too much from this film when I bought it. I assumed it would be mildly entertaining, a teen drama with a supernatural twist. Sadly it failed to meet even my lowest expectations. The film centres around the titular Molly Hartley, a seventeen-year-old girl whose father moves her to a new town and new school for a fresh start, after her mother attempted to murder her. But there is something wrong with Molly. She hears voices and has strange nose bleeds and at times appears to hallucinate about her mother coming back to finish her off. Unfortunately that is basically all that happens in this film, eked out by pointless and very boring teen fluff. Haley Bennett who plays Molly is hardly an accomplished actress. She moves from scene to scene with the same sour look on her face as if smiling would kill her. Her character is never developed, nor are any of the other 'characters' though in all fairness I can't really call them that with a straight face. The blonde, bitchy cheerleader,the campus 'hunk', the bad girl who you know is a rebel because she has - shock horror!! - lots of holes in her tights, are all just cardboard cut-out stereotypes of every other bad teen film that has ever gone before. The director makes no attempt to flesh out any of the characters or give you any reason to care about them.
I found the film to be very misleading because the title clearly states 'haunting'. Let's be very clear about this. There was no haunting in this film. Hearing noises and having random nose bleeds does not constitute a haunting and I pity anyone that thinks it does. The whole way through the film I kept thinking, 'when is something going to happen?' There was literally no plotline, just a number of stupid jump scares like alarm clocks going off or random flocks of birds flying across the screen.
Finally towards the end it almost looked like something was going to happen as it turns out that Molly's parents made a pact with the devil and on her eighteenth birthday she will become his and be all-powerful. But no attempt is made to explain what the devil wants with a teenager with a face like a smacked backside, what her powers will be or what she is destined to do. She will simply be 'powerful'. And that is supposed to be the explanation for nearly an hour and half of painful tedium?
In short everything about this film was truly terrible. The cast was uninspired, untalented, and hampered by a diabolical script that seemed to consist of 'I have to save you' and 'I know what you are'. Well, I'm glad someone in the film knew what she was supposed to be because I sure as hell didnt.
I found the film to be very misleading because the title clearly states 'haunting'. Let's be very clear about this. There was no haunting in this film. Hearing noises and having random nose bleeds does not constitute a haunting and I pity anyone that thinks it does. The whole way through the film I kept thinking, 'when is something going to happen?' There was literally no plotline, just a number of stupid jump scares like alarm clocks going off or random flocks of birds flying across the screen.
Finally towards the end it almost looked like something was going to happen as it turns out that Molly's parents made a pact with the devil and on her eighteenth birthday she will become his and be all-powerful. But no attempt is made to explain what the devil wants with a teenager with a face like a smacked backside, what her powers will be or what she is destined to do. She will simply be 'powerful'. And that is supposed to be the explanation for nearly an hour and half of painful tedium?
In short everything about this film was truly terrible. The cast was uninspired, untalented, and hampered by a diabolical script that seemed to consist of 'I have to save you' and 'I know what you are'. Well, I'm glad someone in the film knew what she was supposed to be because I sure as hell didnt.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
The writers of this movie have tried to bring forward the idea of the Faustian's pact with the Devil into contemporary settings. The essence of the original pact was that in return for an individual's soul, the Devil guarantees limitless material success and power for the duration of one's life-time but eventually eternal damnation in the next life will be the price to pay. In this movie, the pact is agreed by Molly's parents on behalf of their newly-born infant, even though the father subsequently assures his grown-up daughter that the whole pact with the Devil thing is a total nonsense.The Devil, however, comes calling, though we never see him, when Molly has reached her eighteenth birthday.
Molly Hartley ( an accomplished Haley Bennett, whose attractive features vaguely resemble those of a young Anne Baxter of " All about Eve's, fame ) has recently enrolled at Huntington Prep School and is living in the town with her father Robert( Jake Weber, who starred as the husband of Patricia Arquette, aka , Allison DuBois, in the popular TV series "Medium"). Her mother, being treated for insanity for attempting to kill her, is locked away safely in a sanatorium. Molly has nosebleeds, hears voice whispers, and suffers from nightmares. She is easily frightened and screams when a dog barks, a door slams, an alarm clock goes off or a bird squawks. Those are the scary sounds she hears during the 80 minutes or so of the movie's duration; sounds that are perhaps considerably less frightening to the avarage viewer than they appear to be to Molly.
It is difficult to appreciate why some ideas work for one movie while others don't for another. For example, the cinematic concept and assumptions behind the movie: "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" must have seemed daunting for the makers of that movie. Yet the two black-and-white film versions, Starring, consecutively, March and Tracy, and based on that concept, were both entertaining and commercially successful. The concept of a pact with the Devil, while promising in theory, has not worked out well in this movie.
Molly Hartley ( an accomplished Haley Bennett, whose attractive features vaguely resemble those of a young Anne Baxter of " All about Eve's, fame ) has recently enrolled at Huntington Prep School and is living in the town with her father Robert( Jake Weber, who starred as the husband of Patricia Arquette, aka , Allison DuBois, in the popular TV series "Medium"). Her mother, being treated for insanity for attempting to kill her, is locked away safely in a sanatorium. Molly has nosebleeds, hears voice whispers, and suffers from nightmares. She is easily frightened and screams when a dog barks, a door slams, an alarm clock goes off or a bird squawks. Those are the scary sounds she hears during the 80 minutes or so of the movie's duration; sounds that are perhaps considerably less frightening to the avarage viewer than they appear to be to Molly.
It is difficult to appreciate why some ideas work for one movie while others don't for another. For example, the cinematic concept and assumptions behind the movie: "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" must have seemed daunting for the makers of that movie. Yet the two black-and-white film versions, Starring, consecutively, March and Tracy, and based on that concept, were both entertaining and commercially successful. The concept of a pact with the Devil, while promising in theory, has not worked out well in this movie.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
If you like your horror films to feature pretty cast members delivering non-confrontational dialogue whilst dealing with the angst of teenage life then that sums up "The Haunting of Molly Hartley" in a nutshell. It's glossy presentation is typically American and even though there are a few unsettling moments I can't see anyone being offended by the film at all, there are very few instances of bad language and the film has a UK 15 certificate rating but you won't need a cushion to hide behind whilst watching it. I do prefer my horror to be more hardcore in all honesty but for a change of pace the film is an inoffensive way to pass on an hour and a half, I wouldn't necessarily give it a glowing recommendation but I can't say I hated it. Indifference is perhaps not the best feeling to have towards the film in retrospect but there really isn't anything either remarkably good or bad about the film, rent it or wait until it appears on the television would be my advice - It isn't a film to rush out and buy but on the other hand it isn't one to avoid either.
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i woul highly recomend this film it was brilliant if you like spooky real ghosty films then this one is for you
Published 4 months ago by alibongo
Erm....haunting?
Terrible film, it started off well, and just plummetted into nothingness! There was no haunting, a couple of nose-bleeds and weird noises - no horror or big scares either! Read more
Published 10 months ago by Louise Roberts
haunting of molly hartley
strangely enough,i found this dvd quite entertaining!i expected just another'scarey teeny ' show,but,was mildly surprised. Read more
Published 14 months ago by lady anna
Don't bother.
Boring, it's not even scary...i don't know how it got 15 certificate! And just when i thought something interesting was going to happen it finishes! Don't buy this rubbish!
Published 17 months ago by Tamina
the haunting of molly hartley
fab movie!!! thanks to seller to for quick and no problem post. Movie deinitely worth a watch, thankyou amazon too. yours sincerely k wing
Published 22 months ago by Mrs. K. E. Wing
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