It was as predictable as a professional wrestling match and had about as much passion as a drunken sloth.
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10/31/08
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
It's a horror film better suited for skittish cats than humans.
11/03/08
It's no Rosemary's Baby, but for teens looking for a quick fix on All Hallow's Day, it will do.
11/03/08
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
When it comes to excruciating Halloween activities, I think I'd prefer a Milky Way/razor blade surprise to this asinine, pathetic motion picture.
10/31/08
I've read fortune cookies that were scarier, not to mention smarter and more interesting.
10/31/08
High school horror flick more dreary than spooky.
10/31/08
It turns out there's a little more to the story than meets the eye, but much as we'd like to spoil the ending for you, that would be wrong.
10/31/08
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
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
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
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
The cinematic equivalent of a razor blade hidden in an apple.
10/31/08
Top CriticStory about the devil's daughter that is poorly written but well acted
11/04/08
A more accurate title would have been The Annoying Flashbacks of Molly Hartley, or Molly Hartley's Possibly Genetic Mental Disorder or even Molly Hartley's Series of Super-Sucky Unfortunate Events.
11/03/08
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.
11/03/08
Top CriticAt least High School Musical 3 is proud to be innocent; Haunting is as benign as the gym class bully who backs down at the slightest challenge.
10/31/08
Makes Saw V look like Citizen Kane.
10/31/08
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
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
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