Release Date: VOD now, DVD/Blu on August 28th.
Country: USA
Written by: Eduardo Sanchez and Jamie Nash.
Directed by: Eduardo Sanchez.
Starring: Gretchen Lodge, Alexandra Holden and Johnny Lewis.
Is this the story of a woman being haunted by Demons, or is it merely the tale of another crazy bitch, doing crazy things? Honestly, I can't say. Maybe it's both?
Lovely Molly is one of those "let the audience decide" types of endeavors. If you like your Horror laced with ambiguity, you'll devour this one feverishly. If you prefer answers to being left to figure shit out on your own, you'll devour it just the same (because it's a good flick), but you'll most likely hork it right back up once you've finished.
Either way, what we have here is a stylish and well made movie by one of the minds that brought us The Blair Witch Project, Eduardo Sanchez. For the record, this may just be his best film to date.
Molly and Tim are Newlyweds who move into her old family home to start their new lives together. Problem is, some creepy and horrible things happened to Molly and her big sister Hannah in that house when they were kids, and now those things are coming back to haunt the happy couple. Or are they? It looks as if Molly's drug use is coming back to haunt them too.
She doesn't look high at all. |
What is it?!? |
Eduardo Sanchez knows how to make an effective Horror movie, that much is clear. Blair Witch was a fantastic and genre-defining (whether you loved it or hated it, you can't deny its impact) movie. His next big feature, Seventh Moon, was such a shaky-cam mess that we found it to be mostly unwatchable. Shame, that, because underneath all of the shitty visuals was a pretty good story. With Lovely Molly, he keeps the Found Footage/POV tricks to a minimum, and offers us a straight up Horror movie. Overall, it was well made and packed plenty of scares into its framework.
We have to tip our hats to newcomer Gretchen Lodge, or else we'd be fools. She came out of nowhere and delivered one hell of a performance, especially for this being her first film. We truly hope that we get to see more genre work from her in the future.
What in the hell was Crash Bandicoot doing in this movie, and was he real? I need to know.
Everybody who is writing or directing lower budget Horror flicks these days really needs to quit trying to out-clever each other. All of the ambiguous "I left it open to the audiences interpretation" bullshit is growing old. We need a little more cause with our effect. It doesn't even feel creative anymore when filmmakers more or less leave their films open-ended; most of the time, it just feels like a cop out. More and more these days were left saying "so what happened?" at the end of movies (or sometimes during), and it's just getting tiring.
Make a stand guys. Pick a road and go down it; allude to some obscure things along the side of the road or what lies just beyond our site in the forest, but pick a damn road. Even if it sucks, commit.
Is it live, or is it her mental Memorex? |
Yeah, you know what happened. |
Nasty Molly. |
Why big sister didn't get naked, we'll never know. |
Don't worry, Molly. We don't know either. |
This one is a solid B- for us.
It seems as though Lovely Molly has herself a lovely sister, making her Lovely Molly's Sister. They're both actually quite lovely, as it turns out.
Seriously...you guys are like our horror movie soulmates! We should, like, make a baby or something.
ReplyDeleteCheck out our Lovely Molly review @ FilmDeviant.com and compare notes. We're pretty much like twins or something. It's scary.
Anywayz...just wanted to say how much your site makes us Deviants feel all moist in the pants/panties :D
Seriously...you guys are like our horror movie soulmates! We should, like, make a baby or something.
ReplyDeleteCheck out our Lovely Molly review @ FilmDeviant.com and compare notes. We're pretty much like twins or something. It's scary.
Anywayz...just wanted to say how much your site makes us Deviants feel all moist in the pants/panties :D
Umm...you guys might wanna delete one of my comments. My iPad got all glitchy. Sorry.
ReplyDeleteThis movie will be right up my alley because I love those that make me figure it out on my own. The plot sounds really twisted and I’m intrigued by the cover art for the movie. I like that just reading your review of it gave me goose bumps and I think I’ll rent it to see how it holds up. I found this movie available from Blockbuster @ Home which is cool because it will just come to me in the mail. That means I don’t have to run around trying to find a copy. A Dish co-worker recommended it a few weeks ago and I’ve been pretty satisfied with it. I love the screen captures you posted as it just adds to my curiosity, especially the one with blood on her face.
ReplyDeleteWhat is the significance of the horse on the father's head? And her finding the horse strapped up in the burlap? Really just all together WTF? This movie while a bit creepy at times gives no backstory as to what she was looking at in the hole in the ground for that whole minute early on.
ReplyDeleteAnon, I'm guessing that her random staring and such was just to illustrate how unbalanced she was.
ReplyDeleteI would have preffered a bit more backstory too though.
I watched this movie because it claims to be scary. As I watched on till the end, turns out I was feeling more annoyed than scared. I understand if it was the kind of movie that lets audiences to figure out the conclusion on their own, but this movie just .. BAH!
ReplyDeleteWe find those types of movies to be bothersome too, Anon. To us, it's a cop out to "leave it up to the audience" as to what happens at the end of a movie, or what it all meant.
ReplyDeleteHorrible movie
ReplyDeleteI think the "horse strapped up in burlap" was the dead deer that was caught in the fence earlier in the movie. Molly brought it in the house. That's why her husband couldn't figure out where the stank was coming from.
ReplyDeletebut you remember when she was stabbing the deer it was strung up on the ceiling in the basement
DeleteI actually had to google this movie's synopsis to find out wtf was it about. Now I know I xan watch it again some time down the track or not. A true horror buff, but now at 48, I dont want too much ambiguity in a horror flick. More definition woud be a +.
ReplyDeleteAgreed, Anon. The older we get, the less we find oursleves liking abiguity too.
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