Review of Lovely Molly (2011) by James J — 06 Jul 2012

The movie tells a story of a young couple Molly & Tim who have moved in to the house where she once lived and grew up , but everything is not forgotten and this house has many memorys from the past should of been lied to rest , but haven't until now.

After the passing of Molly's mum and dad the young couple decided to move back in to the old family home, not long after moving in something seemed very wrong with more then bumps in the night it seems that only she can see the ghost which haunts the house.

Molly began filming the sightings its soon clear that she is unable to control or understand what is happening to her and this is effecting her relationship with her husband Tim and with sister Hannah , where they both work as cleaners because of Molly's unstable state of mind this is also effecting her day to day life and work.

With Tim spending most nights of the week on the road working away as a truck driver, this meant Molly spent many nights left alone in the house but she was never really alone , locking doors and turning on lights never helped when attacks where happening, people around her seemed to think it was the use of drugs which where causing her to act in these weird ways because she had been a user in the past but it wasn't it was clearly something or someone who was trying to make contact and it was much more then contact which happened to Molly, this also followed her wherever she went and it wasn't just the house she wasn't safe in.

The father had somewhat of a passion for horses so the children feared this and saw their father as a half horse half man so both Molly and Hannah didn't even want to enter the room in the house filled with horse photos because of the things which haunted them from the past , having a cellar which was more of a workshop which seemed to be where it wasn't just animals that got treated bad.

Growing up for Molly wasn't easy because of her bad treating her badly and the fact Hannah then moved away leaving Molly all by herself with her dad , it was a real surprise why Molly would even think about moving back into that house because of the pain she felt growing up let alone moving back in to start a new life , her mum so badly wanted to be out of the house this should of opened her eyes as to why.

With good use of surround sound throughout the cinema making moments where you jump and hear things around you all very much sweeter you can really tell they are aiming for a new kind of horror as it uses what made 'The Blair Witch Project' so popular and successful with shaky cameas and walking around in the woodlands really trys to put the chill down your spine and you don't know what's going to happen next.

The film is 'disturbing' and don't understand why it is only rated as a 15 certificate as there is more violent scene , gore , sex then many 18 certificate films.

Review by James Jarvis.