
Not exactly a horror movie

This is not exactly the worst film in the world, but it doesn't really qualify as a horror movie. Most of the cast comes from TV shows like Gossip Girl and 90210...and this film is kind of like a Halloween episode of one of those shows. If you're into that, OK. Molly's efforts to cope with a new school while worrying about whether she'll inherit her mother's insanity, then undergoing surgery for a sinus tumor and feeling attracted to the most popular guy at school, are entertaining enough, if you like teen soap opera. Molly's father is played by Jake Weber from the TV show MEDIUM. Ironically, an average episode of Medium is scarier, bloodier, and has more supernatural elements than THE HAUNTING OF MOLLY HARTLEY. The Satanic scene thrown in near the end is more offensive than horrifying. Molly protests that you always have a choice between good and evil. The Satanic cult tells her she doesn't. Molly decides to go with the flow....all the cool, popular kids at school are Satanists, so why fight it? If this had been played for laughs, or if Molly had been able to convey the emotion of, say, Mia Farrow in ROSEMARY'S BABY, this plot might have worked. As it is, I didn't much care whether Molly and her pretty teenybopper friends lived or died. The only one I felt sorry for was Jake Weber. Molly's father does not deserve what happens to him in this movie, and Jake the actor should have known better than to take this job.
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