The Haunting of Molly Hartley
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| Directed by | Mickey Liddell |
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| Music by | James T. Sale |
| Cinematography | Sharone Meir |
| Edited by | Zene Baker |
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| Distributed by | Freestyle Releasing |
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85 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $5 million |
| Box office | $15.4 million |
The Haunting of Molly Hartley is a 2008 American supernatural horror film written by John Travis and Rebecca Sonnenshine and directed by Mickey Liddell. The film, starring Haley Bennett, Chace Crawford, AnnaLynne McCord, and Jake Weber, was a critical failure but a mild commercial success.
The film begins with a teenage girl, Laurel Miller (Jessica Lowndes), going into the woods to meet her boyfriend Michael (Randy Wayne). He gives her an early birthday present, but her father (Jamie McShane) shows up and demands that she leave with him. As they drive home, Laurel tells him that she will be marrying Michael as soon as she turns eighteen. He breaks down and apologizes to her, telling her he can't let her turn 18, then purposely crashes their car. Seeing that she is not dead, he kills her with a broken piece of mirror, saying he couldn't let the darkness take her.
The film then switches to present day where 17-year-old Molly Hartley (Haley Bennett) is stabbed in the chest by her deranged mother Jane (Marin Hinkle) with a pair scissors one day after school. Although she survives and her wound is healed with only a scar remaining, she is still haunted in her dreams and hears things because of the frightening experience. Molly lives with her father Robert (Jake Weber) and her mother is locked up in a mental ward outside the town she recently moved to. Her father enrolls Molly in a new school to help with the trauma and start a new life. However, as her eighteenth birthday approaches, Molly must deal with both the stress of being a new student and with the continuing nightmares she has of her mother's attack. Joseph Young (Chace Crawford), one of Molly's classmates, attempts to help her; however, Molly begins to display symptoms of the same psychosis that took control of her mother's life. Molly then attends a party at joseph house where the jealous ex of joseph tries to attack molly leading molly to break her arm after molly left the party walking due to being refused a ride home by one of her new friends she has another allusion of jane and has a panic attack. The next morning she apologize to Joseph ex but she then tells molly she know what she is leading to molly asking what is she. After telling Joseph to leave her alone she then runs into alexis who offers salvation which molly declines afterwards she arrives home where she is cornered by Jane and discovers that she, and others who share her mother's concerns, want to kill her in order to save her from a preordained life as a servant to Satan. It is revealed that Molly had died as the result of a miscarriage and her parents made a pact with the Devil disguised as a woman to save her life. The terms of the agreement were such that the Hartleys would only have Molly until her eighteenth birthday, then she would belong to the Devil. After Jane is accidentally killed by falling down to the floor and upon knocking her father out, she runs to seek salvation by accepting a baptism by alexis who later on tries to drown her after stating she know what she is but then alexis accidentally is knock on her head which cause her to die, Molly turns to Joseph for help, only to discover that he is one of them and has set her up by taking her to his house.
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