Review – The Haunting of Molly Hartley

I don’t know exactly what to make of this movie. For starters, whoever came up with the title has a different understanding of the meaning of “haunting” than I do. I was expecting a ghost or possibly an Amityville-esque evil presence. What I got was distinctly more Omen-flavored. Just prior to her 18th birthday, a girl’s mom tries to kill her. Then she has to move to a new school, make a new set of friends, and no end of other teenage bummers. Sometimes it seemed like it was going to turn into a Chick Tract. At other times it looked like a Chick Tract written by Satan, especially during the tangles between our heroine and her Bible-thumping classmate (with the last name of White, no less). Usually I end reviews of pictures like this by making a remark about how they had a spooky moment or two, but this one didn’t even have that much. See if desperate