31 Nights of Halloween Horror - Night 20 - Lovely Molly
Lovely Molly
99 mins.
Dir. Eduardo Sanchez
USA/2011
From one of the directors of The Blair Witch Project, and if you didn't like that don't worry, this is not a POV film, though it has some of those moments in it. Like Blair Witch it is also open to interpretation, but there is much more to see here. So let's take a look and see what is so Lovely about Molly.
Molly and Tim (Half Sack from Sons of Anarchy) are newlyweds. Tim is a truck driver which keeps him away from home a few days at a time and Molly is a custodian at a mall. They move back into Molly's childhood home which, though they don't have a lot of money for a new place of their own, may not have been a good idea. It all starts one night when their house alarm goes off. Tim grabs a bat, Molly calls the police. Turns out their back door was left unlocked and the wind may have blown it open. The next day is Molly's birthday but Tim has to hit the road for a few days and Molly is left alone in the house. Never a good idea. As Molly wanders the house she finds some kind of hidden shrine in the basement of a shed outback. If that shit wasn't freaky enough once back in the house she hears something in the closet in one of the bedrooms, she opens the door and obviously sees something as she extends her hand out to it, but we never get to see what it is. But it is the beginning of her descent down into madness. By the time Tim comes back home he finds Molly naked sitting on the edge of a bed staring off into space.
As time goes on Molly loses grip with reality like a stripper on a greased up pole. Her boss shows her a video of her at work where she seems to be getting raped by some unknown assailant. She believes the ghost of her father is back and as we piece more of the story together her father seemed to be very abusive towards her and probably in a sexual way. No one else can see what Molly sees even though she says he is right there next to them. Molly eventually turns violent by the end even going as far as threatening her sisters son, who offers to take Molly in to get away from the house. Which seems to be where her problems are stemming from. The movie never truly reveals whether the ghost of Molly's dad exists, or wether she is simply going crazy from past memories stirred up or has she become possessed by whatever demonic horse-headed shrine she uncovered in the shed, or being that she is a recovering junkie who has started using again to cope with the stress causing her mind to snap? And that is one of the nice things about the film. It never definitively tells you too much, just enough to leaves it up to you to decide what happened, though by the time the end arrives you are like uh...ok, wtf was that and then later you are like so...uh...
I rather enjoyed this film, a fun little descent into madness tale that you need to piece together yourself and is open to interpretation as to what really happened to Molly. A little blood, a little nudity, a little haunting, a little demons, this one has a little something for everyone. Add in a downbeat ending and that adds up to a win in my book. Well ok maybe not a total downbeat ending, but there is no they lived happily ever after.
Lovely Molly
99 mins.
Dir. Eduardo Sanchez
USA/2011
From one of the directors of The Blair Witch Project, and if you didn't like that don't worry, this is not a POV film, though it has some of those moments in it. Like Blair Witch it is also open to interpretation, but there is much more to see here. So let's take a look and see what is so Lovely about Molly.
Molly and Tim (Half Sack from Sons of Anarchy) are newlyweds. Tim is a truck driver which keeps him away from home a few days at a time and Molly is a custodian at a mall. They move back into Molly's childhood home which, though they don't have a lot of money for a new place of their own, may not have been a good idea. It all starts one night when their house alarm goes off. Tim grabs a bat, Molly calls the police. Turns out their back door was left unlocked and the wind may have blown it open. The next day is Molly's birthday but Tim has to hit the road for a few days and Molly is left alone in the house. Never a good idea. As Molly wanders the house she finds some kind of hidden shrine in the basement of a shed outback. If that shit wasn't freaky enough once back in the house she hears something in the closet in one of the bedrooms, she opens the door and obviously sees something as she extends her hand out to it, but we never get to see what it is. But it is the beginning of her descent down into madness. By the time Tim comes back home he finds Molly naked sitting on the edge of a bed staring off into space.
As time goes on Molly loses grip with reality like a stripper on a greased up pole. Her boss shows her a video of her at work where she seems to be getting raped by some unknown assailant. She believes the ghost of her father is back and as we piece more of the story together her father seemed to be very abusive towards her and probably in a sexual way. No one else can see what Molly sees even though she says he is right there next to them. Molly eventually turns violent by the end even going as far as threatening her sisters son, who offers to take Molly in to get away from the house. Which seems to be where her problems are stemming from. The movie never truly reveals whether the ghost of Molly's dad exists, or wether she is simply going crazy from past memories stirred up or has she become possessed by whatever demonic horse-headed shrine she uncovered in the shed, or being that she is a recovering junkie who has started using again to cope with the stress causing her mind to snap? And that is one of the nice things about the film. It never definitively tells you too much, just enough to leaves it up to you to decide what happened, though by the time the end arrives you are like uh...ok, wtf was that and then later you are like so...uh...
I rather enjoyed this film, a fun little descent into madness tale that you need to piece together yourself and is open to interpretation as to what really happened to Molly. A little blood, a little nudity, a little haunting, a little demons, this one has a little something for everyone. Add in a downbeat ending and that adds up to a win in my book. Well ok maybe not a total downbeat ending, but there is no they lived happily ever after.
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