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Excellent but underrated film

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The film follows Molly, as she moves into her fathers house after his death, and strange occurrences soon begin. The story-line is all over the place, but still unnerving. Make no mistake about it, there are multiple scenes that are intense, graphic, and "in your face," but my most memorable scenes were the more subtle ones. I thought the use of the second level staircase was superb. The stairs were creepy; old staircases always seem to have this effect. Steep, narrow, dark, unfriendly, and they led straight to Molly's bedroom. One of my favorite scenes happens very early in the movie. First night in home, and home alarm goes off while sleeping. The couple gathers themselves and opens the door to look downstairs. The shot of looking down these unnerving stairs to the pitch black of the first floor was brilliant. The final 5-10 minutes does a great job of wrapping up the film by showing and letting the audience come to terms. It's not a "fun" movie, but if you're looking for a horror, this one will disturb.

In a video recording dated 10.16.2011, Molly (Gretchen Lodge) is suicidal but can't kill herself. She says, "It won't let me do it." A year earlier, she is getting married to Tim (Johnny Lewis). They move into her childhood home assisted by her sister Hannah (Alexandra Holden). Molly is alone while Tim is away. She starts to deteriorate.It's not anything terribly new. Director Eduardo Sánchez of Blair Witch fame brings a mix of found footage and indie horror. It does have a disjointed feel. It can be confused. Gretchen Lodge has a nice disaffected performance. It's a middling horror that doesn't excel but it does have its moments.

Sad and bleak best describes Lovely Molly. About half way through I realised there was not going to be a happy ending here, and I was right. The music is especially melancholic, painfully so, and perfectly pitched to what's happening on screen.Does the bleakness ruin the movie? Not at all. For me, Lovely Molly was about the damage abuse does to children. It should be sad and bleak.Lovely Molly isn't particularly scary, although it probably still classifies as a horror film, given the ending. It reminds me a lot of The Babadook, which also has a female lead who is undergoing massive psychological stress. (Both films have fantastic female leads too.) The Babadook is much scarier, but Lovely Molly will linger far longer because of its tragic back story.Incidentally, there's a lot of nudity in this film. One could perceive this as gratuitous, but the heavy context around it (i.e. child abuse) makes it difficult to view it in an erotic way. Maybe this is the point.

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.