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Line 1: {{work}} ~~{{quote box\|~~[[File:Haunting_of_Molly_Hartley_2400.jpg\|frame]]}} After her mother tries to kill her, 17-year-old Molly Hartley moves down to Georgia from [[~~Useful Notes/~~Boston (useful notes)\|Boston]] to start a new life from herself. Unfortunately, when she was young, her parents made a [[Deal ~~With~~with the Devil]] to save her life, on the condition that, on Molly's [[Dangerous Sixteenth Birthday\|18th birthday]], the Devil will claim her in return. And Molly's 18th birthday is coming right up... Released in 2008, this teen thriller combined '80s-style "Satanic Panic" fears with a [[Teen Drama]] coating. It was largely skewered by critics for its formulaic and clumsy plot, [[Bad Acting]], and reliance on [[Jump Scare\|cheap scares]], and barely made a dent at the box office. ---- {{tropelist}} ~~=== Tropes: ===~~ * [[Adults Are Useless]]: Your dad [[Arbitrary Skepticism\|refuses to believe what's going on]] until it's too late, your mom is locked up in an insane asylum, and your guidance counselor {{spoiler\|is trying to recruit you into a [[Satan\|Satanic]] [[Cult]]}}. * [[Alpha Bitch]]: Susie. * [[Arbitrary Skepticism]]: Molly's dad simply refuses to believe that the cult is coming for his daughter, even though ''he made a [[Deal ~~With~~with the Devil]]'' to save her. And how did he not notice that Molly's {{spoiler\|guidance counselor at school was the exact same person who acted as the Devil's agent in the deal}}? * [[Chekhov's Gun]]: Alexis mentions early on that her grandmother works at a hospital. {{spoiler\|The hospital in question turns out to be the asylum where Molly's mom is locked up. Alexis learns about Molly's curse through her grandmother, and proceeds to try and kill her.}} * [[Deal ~~With~~with the Devil]]: Molly's parents made this in order to prevent their premature baby from dying. In return, on Molly's 18th birthday, a Satanic cult will come to claim her {{spoiler\|[[Face Heel Turn\|as one of their own]]}}. * [[Doomed Moral Victor]]: {{spoiler\|Both Molly's mom and Alexis realized that Molly would [[Face Heel Turn\|turn evil]], and tried to kill her to stop it.}} * [[Evil Overlooker]]: {{spoiler\|Joseph standing front and center on the poster.}} Line 19: * [[Genre Shift]]: The first half of the movie entertains the idea that nothing supernatural is happening, and that Molly might be going insane. By the end of the film, this is out the window. * [[Haunted Heroine]]: Guess who? * [[Hey, ~~Its~~It's That Guy!\|Hey, It's That Gal/Guy!]]: [[Music and Lyrics\|Cora Corman]] is targeted by the Devil, [[Medium\|Joe DuBois]] is her dad, and [[Gossip Girl\|Nate Archibald]] {{spoiler\|becomes Cora's boyfriend by the end of the film}}. * [[Holier Than Thou]]: Alexis. * [[Jump Scare]]: Pretty much the film's stock method of building suspense. * [[Mirror Scare]]: Played painfully straight. * [[Soundtrack Dissonance]]: {{spoiler\|The movie ends with Molly now stuck working for the devil, apathetically dismissing her father as a disturbed mental patient, and then a graduation speech at high school, with happy music played over the last scene and credits. }} * [[Supernatural -Proof Father]]: Taken to extremes. See [[Arbitrary Skepticism]]. * [[The Mole]]: {{spoiler\|Joseph and the guidance counselor}} turn out to be part of the Satanic cult that's trying to claim Molly. * {{spoiler\|[[Villain Protagonist]]}}: Molly at the end. Line 32: [[Category:Horror Films]] [[Category:Films of the 2000s]] [[Category:The Haunting Of Molly Hartley]]▼ [[Category:Film]] ▲~~[[Category~~{{DEFAULTSORT:~~The~~ Haunting Ofof Molly Hartley]], The}} [[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]]