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.

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.

LOVELY MOLLY is a slow and smoldering ghost story about Molly(Gretchen Lodge)and her new husband Tim(Johnny Lewis)experiencing eerie disturbances after moving into Molly's deceased father's country home. Not really packed with a lot of gore, but pretty creepy all the same. Tim, being a truck driver, is away when Molly starts to hear unexplainable sounds and falls back into unpleasant past memories. The creep factor escalates as demonic manifestations makes this ghost story seem a bit convoluted. None the less, it gets a bit painful to sit and watch the characters not take a lot of effort to change the circumstances.Other players include: Alexandra Holden, Josh Jones, Field Blauvelt, Katie Foster, Kevin Murray and Camilla Zaidee Bennett.

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.