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Haunting of Molly Hartley. The
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Haunting of Molly Hartley. The reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 28 Metascore out of 100
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4.5 out of 10
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MPAA RATING: PG-13 for strong thematic material, violence and terror, brief strong language and some teen drinking

Starring Chace Crawford, Haley Bennett, Shannon Marie Woodward, Shanna Collins, and AnnaLynne McCord

Molly Hartley is the new girl in town. While Joseph shows her the ropes, Molly becomes haunted by nightmares of her mentally ill mother. Her worst fears are confirmed when her high school counselor tells her there could be a genetic connection between her mother's psychosis and her own terrifying symptoms. (Freestyle Releasing)


GENRE(S): Horror  
WRITTEN BY: John Travis
Rebecca Sonnenshine
 
DIRECTED BY: Mickey Liddell  
RELEASE DATE: Theatrical: October 31, 2008 
RUNNING TIME: minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: USA 

What The Critics Said

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50
Variety Rob Nelson
This softcore thriller runs strictly by the numbers.
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50
Boston Globe Chelsea Bain
Molly Hartley is dull at worst and surprisingly spooky at best.
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50
The New York Times Jeannette Catsoulis
Tame and inoffensive, The Haunting of Molly Hartley is no more than a big-screen lasso for the "Gossip Girl" and "Supernatural" demographic.
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42
Entertainment Weekly Adam Markovitz
The story's a snooze, so the filmmakers punch it up with smash cuts and thunderclaps that turn the most laughably banal items -- birds, mail, an alarm clock -- into cheap jack-in-the-box shocks.
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40
Los Angeles Times Sam Adams
A dead-on-arrival thriller that resolutely fails to come to life.
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38
TV Guide Jason Buchanan
Horror of the glossiest, safest kind. It's a boring bubblegum shocker that loses its flavor faster than Fruit Stripes.
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33
The Onion (A.V. Club) Keith Phipps
It's a horror film better suited for skittish cats than humans.
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30
The Hollywood Reporter Frank Scheck
Playing somewhat like a juvenile version of "Rosemary's Baby," this inept, incoherent attempt to cash in on young girls who can't buy a ticket to the R-rated "Saw V" (or are too lazy to sneak in) will be out of theaters long before the Halloween pumpkins start to rot.
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11
Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov
The real shocker is how hellishly yawn-inducing this utterly pointless and forgettable Haunting turns out to be. It's enough to make you scream.
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10
LA Weekly Luke Y. Thompson
From Freestyle Releasing, the self-service distributor that brought you "D-War" and "In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale," comes a movie even worse than those two combined.
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