lojitsu A-Z Horror Movie of the Day..."Lovely Molly" (R - 2011 - US)Sub-Genre: Paranormal/PsychoMy Score: 7.0Cast=5 Acting=8 Plot=7 Ending=8 Story=6 Scare=7 Jump=6 F/X=7 Creep=8 Psycho=8A newlywed moves into her deceased father's house in the countryside, where painful memories soon begin to haunt her."Whatever it's done, I'm... I'm not in control anymore." Is it Paranormal or Psychological? I can't say for sure...could be a bit of both. It was a bit slow, but there were several things I liked. There is full frontal nudity and a kill scene that gave me chills. I thought Gretchen Lodge got really creepy toward the end...me likey!

SnoopyStyle 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.

The Couchpotatoes I'm not going to say it's a bad movie. It's a good movie to watch once but that's about it. There is definitely some suspense and some mild horror scenes but overall I was a bit disappointed by the end of the story. It could have been better, but it could have been worse as well. The actors were not bad at all. In fact they all did a good job with their respective roles. I would just have liked some more explanation at the end and eventually a bit more scary scenes in the middle. The last week I saw a lot of so called "horror" movies that are not really qualified to be called horror. This one is, and I was pleased that for once they categorize it correctly.

GL84 After moving into her childhood home, a newlyweds' psychological trauma from the past returns to haunt her and her husband as they come to realize they are not alone in the house and must try to save her sanity.This was an overall mess of a horror film that barely has anything worthwhile going for it. The biggest issue here is that nothing at all happens here which is what makes this one play out so slowly and agonizing that it really becomes a struggle to get through the first twenty minutes of this, much less the rest of the effort. Since this one throws in story lines about her past drug use and the increasing amount of time she's unable to sleep through the night that we get here, it makes for quite a logical turn that those would be given as the result of ghostly encounters with the past coming back to haunt her, but instead there's hardly anything about her encounters with the ghosts and it comes off more like her just going mad for no reason so that her completely lunatic behavior is the result of her coming unhinged for no reason. That's a far less interesting recourse here and when coupled with such needless and overlong sequences as her having trouble at her job and the completely filler sequences of hanging out with the sister complaining about her husband who's never home anyway so that there's a slew of endless talking scenes that just eat up time and come off as completely uninteresting so that there's hardly any kind of ghost encounters here that come off as terrifying which is the film's biggest downfall. This is way too talky and drawn-out for it's own good, but when combined with the fact that there's just not a lot of good encounters with the supernatural threat within this and it really comes off all the worse off with almost all the areas here needed for a successful effort working against it. That's not to say it's a total loss, as despite the fact that there's no good encounters that doesn't mean there's none at all here so that a few of these scenes are somewhat decent as a sequence where she nearly-sleepwalks through the house and tears up the basement to reveal an animal carcass buried in its' ceiling which makes for an interesting series of events against the low-key nature of the rest of this as well as a dark and twisted torture sequence that comes off a little better although it does hold back on the graphic denouement it was going for. Still, this one isn't all that impressive overall.Rated R: Graphic Language, Full Nudity, Graphic Violence, several sex scenes and drug use.