Lovely Molly – review

In 1999, as the era of affordable digital videocameras dawned, Eduardo Sánchez co-wrote and co-directed The Blair Witch Project, and so co-created the found-footage or first-person horror film: later examples were Cloverfield and Paranormal Activity. It would be nice if Sánchez's new film Lovely Molly was a masterclass in this type of chiller, but despite a good performance from newcomer Gretchen Lodge it's a bit of a mess, a derivative scary movie with a jumbled plot and pointless added bits of digital video, with the red "Rec" sign in the top right of the screen and the date pedantically and redundantly showing in the bottom left. Lodge is Molly, a troubled young woman who moves with her new husband back into her childhood home now her parents are dead. But the house is haunted with horrible memories. The film presents us with too many unearned revelations, and it unravels.