My choices that day was between "The Haunting of Molly Hartley" and "Bride Wars." I decided that this one should be the lesser evil, so to speak. I did not know anyone in the cast, yet the horror genre certainly appealed more to me than the chick flick. Even though this is horror of the teen kind. And the title, hmmm, could this be a sequel to "The Exorcism of Emily Rose"?
Molly Hartley (pretty newcomer Haley Bennett, who can wear a mean school uniform) has just survived a murder attempt by her own mother. Her father transfers he to a new private school for a fresh start. But she is constantly being haunted by visual and aural hallucinations and nose bleeds as her 18th birthday draws near. Diabolical revelations were eventually made to explain what was going on.
Of note here for me was the inclusion of a sequence showing her consultation with an ENT that revealed an angiofibroma inside her sinus cavity causing her headaches and hallucinations. She even underwent endoscopic surgery to excise it! Of course, we all saw that that was a red herring a mile away.
OK, the horror was not that scary. It relied on a lot of sudden jumps in the soundtrack to create the scare. The generic young all-American good looking cast was well like so OC or some random TV teen drama series. There are moral problems with this film as there was a disturbing depiction of the Molly's Christian classmate as a weird fanatic and an attempted murderer. The story was further marred by the apparent triumph of evil at the end. Watch at your own risk.
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