Movie Review: The Haunting of Molly Hartley

Browsing through Blockbuster this past weekend, looking for a good flick, and I unfortunately couldn't find a damn thing. Just as I was about to give up, golden curly hair caught my eye on the case of a DVD.
Hey I knew that chick. That's the nasty girl from the new 90210 series; Naomi!

I scooped up the DVD, and read the title; The Haunting of Molly Hartley.
 
Well how delightful?! I love scary flicks, I love haunting tales, and I liked the 90210 girl. I figured I couldn't lose.

As soon as The Haunting of Molly Hartley (Haley Bennett) began, I was double delighted to see that there were 2 characters from the new 90210 starring in this one!

With my 90210 obsessions aside, the flick started off really promising.

In 1971 a young girl is murdered before her 18th birthday by her father who intentionally crashed his car to kill her. He on numerous occasions says he is sorry, and that he has to save her.

The time then flips to present day where we meet Molly.

It's quite obvious that whatever happened with that young girl in 1971, will be happening to Molly as well.

I was pretty pumped up on seeing how this one would pan out. I wanted to know what the deal was with a father killing his daughter because it was nearing her 18th birthday, and what he meant by 'saving her' before she turned 18.

Molly recently moved to a quite little town where things seem to be going pretty well for her. On her first day she meets a Jesus loving freak who becomes somewhat of a friend, and she manages to catch the eye of Joseph Young (Chace Crawford), whom is a pretty hot catch if you ask me.

As soon as she met Joesph though I was immediately wondering why on earth he took such a liking to her, especially seeing that Molly had more than one crazy breakdown episode in front of her peers at school. Not only that, the two barely even spoke more than a few sentences. Oddly enough, he seems pretty infatuated with her.

That's just the thing with Molly. You can't figure out if the girl is mentally ill, or if she is just having panic attacks due to her mother trying to kill her recently.

Molly's father sets her up on routine visits with a counselor. Not once though do you see Molly being prescribed medication for her hallucinations and panic attacks. It makes you wonder what the hell the point of the doctor being in the show is!?

It is really no shock when we learn that Molly is nearing her 18th birthday. How clever! We finally get to learn what this big 18th birthday represents, and why it is so significant.

Sadly the movie began with a good catch, and then simply sank. I can't say I'm not surprised though. Many modern day horrors start with a very good beginning plot, and end off on a stupid far out lame note.

As the show goes on though, it gets worse, and worse...until finally it ends, and you are left pissed off that you even tuned in to begin with.

Recommendation:
 
Skip it. It's a wreck.