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A brilliant film that helped define a genre

It's funny watching the elements come together in this complicated scam. On one hand, the set-up isn't quite as complex as it seems, but there's an easy sense of fun in every exchange.

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

I consider myself a pretty good movie buff, meaning, it's never too hard to understand a film, however, this was not one of them. sure, I get supernatural, and manifestations of the mind, and I too get how using powerful drugs can alter your state of mind. but let me say, this made no sense real or unreal. first off, who are the people in the videos, her family? or ? to top that off, who were the missing people toward the end, and, yes there us a lot of ands. why did a priest come over to Molly's house and go down on her, and who was the supernatural figment awaiting her at the end of the sidewalk, and, who did her sister see to be holding out her hand at the top of the stairs to, and finally, what did her husband have to do with any of this? the only real thing I can say, is the acting performances were believable, other than that a no nonsense film. when viewing a film, there should always be an introduction , don't just throw us in the water and we went given the opportunity to take swim lessons, so to speak. I had to guess throughout the movie, and still don't know who was who. they just thru a random family on the screen and we had to guess from beginning to end, and after.

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.

LOVELY MOLLY is a slow and smoldering ghost story about Molly(Gretchen Lodge)and her new husband Tim(Johnny Lewis)experiencing eerie disturbances after moving into Molly's deceased father's country home. Not really packed with a lot of gore, but pretty creepy all the same. Tim, being a truck driver, is away when Molly starts to hear unexplainable sounds and falls back into unpleasant past memories. The creep factor escalates as demonic manifestations makes this ghost story seem a bit convoluted. None the less, it gets a bit painful to sit and watch the characters not take a lot of effort to change the circumstances.Other players include: Alexandra Holden, Josh Jones, Field Blauvelt, Katie Foster, Kevin Murray and Camilla Zaidee Bennett.

Lovely Molly....boy, what a huge disappointment this was. I had wanted to see this since it's release but now after finally managing to see it I wish I hadn't bothered about it as it really was pretty bad. This is definitely one of Eduardo Sánchez's worst movies and it's actually hard to believe it's the same Eduardo Sánchez that co-directed, produced, and wrote the fantastic Blair Witch Project.The film starts off decent enough, and it doesn't take long for the story to start developing and moving along. When I say "moving along" however, I mean it goes along as if it's stuck in first gear....actually, a snail stuck in treacle has more pace to it.It also jumps around far too much and the whole movie is very stop/start with a lot of the scenes. For instance, one minute it can seem as if it's picking up but then it just stops and cuts to something else entirely. It's like it builds you up just to immediately let you down without revealing much of anything.If you're looking for a bit of gore as well then you won't find it here, but for me that's OK because I don't have to have a film packed with gore to enjoy. While I don't mind it, I'm not a 'gore freak' and it's not the first thing I look for when wanting to see a movie...in fact, I look for a good story first before gore, but if the story is all over the place, too boring to enjoy, or really just not very good - like Lovely Molly - then there is just no hope of enjoyment no matter what.Story & gore aren't the only things lacking here either as it's not even very creepy, which was disappointing considering who the director is and that it's supposed to be a supernatural/psychological horror. There are a couple of moments that weren't that bad, but overall, it just wasn't creepy enough for my liking. For me, the only things Lovely Molly has going for it is that it's pretty well acted out and some of the atmosphere generated isn't too bad.Other than that, this film is a massive let down.