It would take hallucinations of a powerful kind indeed to find anything worthwhile in The Haunting of Molly Hartley, a dead-on-arrival thriller that resolutely fails to come to life.
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11/03/08
The Haunting of Molly Hartley (2008)
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Reviews Counted:35
Fresh:1
Rotten:34
Average Rating:2.8/10
Consensus: The Haunting of Molly Hartley is a rather lifeless horror endeavor, with a pedestrian plot and few scares.
Runtime: 86 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Synopsis: After surviving a near-fatal stab wound inflicted by her religious-zealot mother, Molly (Haley Bennett, MUSIC & LYRICS) and her father attempt to make a fresh start in a new town. Unfortunately, on... [More]
Starring: Haley Bennett, Chace Crawford, Annalynne McCord, Shannon Woodward
Director: Mickey Liddell
Reviews for The Haunting of Molly Hartley
Top CriticIt's no Rosemary's Baby, but for teens looking for a quick fix on All Hallow's Day, it will do.
11/03/08
Why do filmmakers bother? Are they crazy? Are we crazy? And if not, why do we keep paying $8 to see the same movie again?
11/07/08
Makes Saw V look like Citizen Kane.
10/31/08
This is a prime example of horror conceived by people who don't know the genre, for people who don't like horror films. Practically nothing here is interesting, involving, or new, and, worst of all, it isn't even entertaining as pure kitsch.
10/31/08
It was as predictable as a professional wrestling match and had about as much passion as a drunken sloth.
10/31/08
God and Satan duke it out for the soul of a young girl in The Haunting of Molly Hartley, an unexpectedly cynical addition to the teen-scream genre.
11/03/08
Top CriticA watered-down version of prior, better films, 'The Haunting of Molly Hartley' is as dumb as a box of Halloween candy.
11/09/08
Story about the devil's daughter that is poorly written but well acted
11/04/08
The Haunting of Molly Hartley flirts with having something to say about budding female sexuality and evangelical religion, but it winds up being a pale copy of several of Roman Polanski's more chilling films.
10/31/08
The acting in Haunting is cardboard as can be, and although Bennett tries hard to engage us, she’s seemingly interchangeable with any number of teen actresses currently roaming the airwaves at the CW.
11/04/08
What transpires is everybody's guess, and all of it leads to what may take the blue ribbon for the least exciting climax ever to festoon a horror picture.
11/05/08
As it races from one unlikely trauma to the next for poor Molly, the movie forgets one key thing: The devil is in the details.
11/01/08
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10/31/08
I can't believe that Freestyle actually got this movie to be released in the theaters. It's dull, boring, and at best, laughably bad.
11/07/08
...almost as inept as the movie's advertising campaign, which gives away the 'surprise' ending on the posters.
11/07/08
The story's a snooze, so the filmmakers punch it up with smash cuts and thunderclaps that turn the most laughably banal items into cheap jack-in-the-box shocks. They'll make you flinch -- but then again, so will most of the dialogue.
10/31/08
This old-fashioned thriller about satanic pacts and collateral damage delivers tame shocks and a cast full of TV-friendly faces, from Gossip Girl heartthrob Chace Crawford to Jake Weber of Medium.
10/31/08
The Haunting of Molly Hartley isn't the least bit haunting. It's just cheap.
11/03/08
Unfortunately, the performances are so slack and the filmmaking so clunky that any intentional humour gets lost in a sea of inadvertent giggles.
10/31/08
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