Molly Hartley - The Daughter of Satan
| Movie | |
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| German title | Molly Hartley - pact with evil or the daughter of Satan |
| Original title | The Haunting of Molly Hartley |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2008 |
| length | 82 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Mickey Liddell |
| script |
John Travis Rebecca Sun Shine |
| production | Mickey Liddell Jennifer Monroe (as Jennifer Hilton ) |
| music | James T. Sale |
| camera | Sharone Meir |
| cut | Zene Baker |
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Molly Hartley - The Daughter of Satan is a 2008 American horror film . The film was shown on television under the title Molly Hartley, The Deal with Evil .
action
The opening scene shows a young girl secretly meeting her boyfriend in a wooden hut in the woods. He wants to give her a necklace because it's her birthday soon. They are interrupted by the girl's father, who immediately takes her into the car and drives away. During the trip, the two argue, and in the middle above the father that giving her the can not do that. He can't stand the fact that she is slowly growing up and repeatedly asserts, while he depresses the gas pedal to the floor, that she cannot be picked up. Who he is talking about is not explained. The two race down a slope and are rammed by an approaching truck in such a way that they suffer a serious accident. Both survive the total crash, but the father has not changed his mind. He reaches for a shard of glass and it becomes clear that he murdered his daughter in the wrecked car.
Change of scene: Molly Hartley (Haley Bennett) had a terrible past: her own mother, trapped in religious madness, wanted to stab her with scissors. After the mother is admitted to Clayton Asylum and listed as severely deranged, Molly and her father have moved to another town to start a new life.
Molly visits a new school where she not only has an appointment with the principal but also an appointment with the school's psychologist, Mrs. Emerson. She refuses the latter for the time being. Molly hears voices in her head that made her registered with the psychologist.
Over time, Molly finds a friend in the church fanatic Alexis and the rebel Leah, who is also registered with the psychologist. In addition, there is a classmate, Joseph Young, the son of a wealthy entrepreneur in the city, with whom Molly also befriends and soon develops romantic feelings towards him, which is mutual. However, she doesn't tell anyone about her voices in her head.
But over time the events pile up; In addition to the voices in her head, there are also illusions; Molly keeps seeing her mother, who comes to kill her again, with the words "I'm not going to let them get you, it will be soon", and Molly suspects that this is something with her upcoming 18th birthday has to do. Furthermore, Molly complains again and again of delusions , headaches and severe dizziness, until a tumor in her head is discovered in the hospital, which is supposed to cause her suffering. Molly hopes to get better after the operation is successful, but the opposite is the case: the hallucinations keep getting worse and soon she no longer knows what is reality and what is unreality.
However, everything she sees is true. This becomes evident when her mother turns up again: a quarrel breaks out between mother and daughter, and Molly ultimately pushes her mother down the stairs in self-defense. Mrs. Hartley was fatally hit by the fall. But before she died, Molly's mother told her something: She was born in a toilet, but stillborn. Molly's parents wouldn't have gotten to the hospital fast enough, and Molly's mother would have had several miscarriages before her. At that moment, both parents would have wished nothing more than that Molly would have a healthy child. A mysterious woman appeared (in the film you only see a pleated skirt) who promised the parents the life of their child. In return, however, they would have to agree to return the resuscitated child after 18 years as an exchange for the upcoming 18 years. Molly learns that her parents did just that, and now Molly is due to be brought back on her 18th birthday. Molly learns that her father kept this from her all these years and that her mother always wanted to protect her.
In a panic, she runs to Alexis and asks her for help. Alexis takes her to a church and tries to help Molly by baptizing her. "There is always a choice," says Alexis to her and Molly wants to convert to the faith. However, Alexis reveals that her grandmother works as a nurse in the Clayton Asylum where Molly's mother was admitted, so she knows who Molly really is. Alexis subsequently tries to kill Molly for her own sake. Molly is scared. Again there is a fight in which Alexis is fatally injured.
In her distress, Molly only has to go to Joseph, whom she runs into, supposedly by chance. He takes her with him and drives her to him. Joseph assures her that he believes her story. He wants to get money to escape with Molly while she is supposed to wait in the car. After he gets out, Molly decides to call her psychologist. She dials the number from a card Mrs. Emerson gave her personally on Joseph's cell phone. She hesitates when she sees that the number has already been saved, but leaves a message for Mrs. Emerson anyway. Shortly after she hung up, Joseph called her into the house.
When Molly finds Joseph, she sees no packed suitcases: Molly finds herself in a room where Joseph has set up a small table with a cake. “Happy birthday,” he says to her. Molly looks at the clock hanging in the room; it's not yet her birthday.
Molly already suspects that something is wrong when the door opens behind her and Mrs. Emerson, the psychologist, enters, followed by a henchman who leads Molly's battered father with him. Mrs. Emerson tells Molly the story of her birth again as shadows gradually gather outside the windows. Molly realizes that Joseph has set a trap for her and is part of the conspiracy, as is Mrs. Emerson.
Mrs. Emerson invites Molly to become a part of her community. She promises her great power because she is one of the chosen ones. Molly declines her offer, but Mrs. Emerson points out that her parents once made this pact with her and that it cannot be broken, except perhaps if the person who made the pact dies. In the following, Mrs. Emerson leaves the decision to Molly. She puts a knife in front of her feet and reveals that Molly has to kill her father in order to achieve freedom herself. Molly grabs the knife and her father pleads with her to sacrifice his life for her. At that moment the clock strikes zero and Molly remembers Alexis' words: "There is always a choice" - whereupon Molly sticks the knife into herself rather than her father.
Molly's graduation from school is shown in the following scenes. Joseph is also in the picture. As the best of the year, she speaks to her classmates about a change in her generation that the world has not yet seen. Then she and Joseph go to a waiting car. On the way there they meet Mrs. Emerson, who only whispers to Molly "See you", then Molly and Joseph get into the car and Mrs. Emerson goes back to the school building.
The final scene shows Mr. Hartley in the hospital, locked in a room. His trembling legs, crossed arms and a doctor reading the medical files make it clear that he has now also become a case for the Clayton Asylum and now needs every help. The doctor speaks to Molly, but Molly refuses any help and the film ends with Molly refusing.
criticism
"Ambitious but only mediocre horror film, the German distribution title of which already indicates where the devilish journey is going."
Web links
- Molly Hartley - The daughter of Satan in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Molly Hartley - The Daughter of Satan. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .