Diagonaldi Very well executed

ChicRawIdol A brilliant film that helped define a genre

SeeQuant Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

Lollivan It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

znegative When I was about 10 or so 'The Blaire Witch Project' came out. I didn't see it until a few years later, but I remember that movie actually scared me. 'Lovely Molly' incorporates similar techniques to produce equal (or almost) creepiness. Some directors clearly have a vision in there head. Two examples that are obvious that come off the top of my head would be David Lynch, and Guillermo Del Toro. I think after seeing 'Lovely Molly' it's safe to say Eduardo Sanchez is that type of director too. Unlike most modern horror movies which rely heavily upon special effects, Lovely Molly is a very minimalist film. What makes it creepy is mostly the sound effects, which are great, as well as the atmosphere. I guess what Eduardo Sanchez has that other directors in the genre lack, is restraint. By not revealing much of anything, Sanchez allows our minds to fill in 'what's behind that door' etc.. When we do see the 'spirit', it's barely visible, but it's scary as hell.I'll admit the only reason I watched this movie was because I heard it was by the same director as 'The Blaire Witch Project'. Before I had heard that, it was just another movie in the 'Paranormal' category on my Amazon Shudder account, and to be quite honest, I usually do not like ghost movies. To my surprise, IMO this movie wasn't so much about some spiritual entity as it was about the impression of abuse left behind on a girl by her dead father, which was a lot creepier to me. That being said, I wish I had seen this movie before 'Magic Magic', which had similar themes, all though was less a traditional horror movie than 'Lovely Molly' which is why I liked it more. I think I would have rated this one higher if I'd seen it first, but it's still a good movie. If you liked Magic Magic and Anti Christ, you'll probably enjoy this one too. I liked it enough that I'm now going to rent his other movie 'Altered'.

Leofwine_draca LOVELY MOLLY is a BLAIR WITCH follow-up from director Eduardo Sanchez. In it, a newly wed couple movie back to the childhood home of the wife, only for her to start experiencing flashbacks and hallucinations as dark secrets from her past are dug back up again.This is a slow burning, atmospheric horror film that unfortunately misses the mark too often for me. It doesn't help that the characters, particularly the protagonist, are too unlikeable for me to enjoy the movie. Everything about this is greyed out and downbeat, and the segments filmed found footage style are intrusive; with found footage it's all or nothing. The opening scene with the burglar alarm going off is the only one which is truly menacing.The whole mysterious "secrets from the past" aspect of the storyline is an all-too-familiar one from a lot of modern horror movies and there's just too little incident here to attract my attention. Even worse, some of the stylistic choices are annoying in the extreme, such as the constant tinnitus-inducing ringing on the soundtrack. I appreciate what Sanchez was trying to do here but for me, it's a failure.

David Arnold 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.

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.