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Monday, 15 April 2013

LOVELY MOLLY [2011]

Eduardo Sánchez, director of The Blair Witch Project, sets out to creep us out again in Lovely Molly.
Carried by a particularly convincing performance from Gretchen Lodge, the film starts out like a run of the mill Paranormal Activity wannabe but slowly escalates into something far more weirder and unsettling.  I'm still not entirely sure what actually happened, partially due to far too many minor plotlines that had absolutely nothing to do with the bigger picture...I think.  Horses?  Deer?  Heroin?  Ghost rapes?  Your guess is as good as mine.  I really didn't expect anything at all with this film but was pleasantly surprised with frightened confusion and bizarre twists that might not mean anything at all.

3 painful kisses out of 5

1 comment:

Borderline said...

Even though the story marches down an ambiguous path, I found many scenes to be quite creepy. Nice drama in a truly effective horror movie. 3 powerful ghost thrusts out of 5.

Much like the hype and story surrounding The Blair Witch Project, the LM dvd includes 4 vignettes which try to explain the strange happenings as if it were a true story. Pretty interesting.