Line #13 Film/TheHauntingOfMollyHartley


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3	After her mother tries to kill her, 17-year-old Molly Hartley moves down to Georgia from UsefulNotes/{{Boston}} to start a new life from herself. Unfortunately, when she was young, her parents made a DealWithTheDevil to save her life, on the condition that, on Molly's [[DangerousSixteenthBirthday 18th birthday]], the Devil will claim her in return. And Molly's 18th birthday is coming right up...
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5	Released in 2008, this TeenHorror film combined '80s-style "Satanic Panic" fears with a TeenDrama coating. It was largely skewered by critics for its formulaic and clumsy plot, {{bad acting}}, and reliance on [[JumpScare cheap scares]], and barely made a dent at the box office. Despite this, there was a sequel called ''The Exorcism of Molly Hartley''.
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7	!!Tropes:
8	* AdultsAreUseless: Your dad [[ArbitrarySkepticism 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}}ic {{cult}}]].
9	* AlphaBitch: Susie.
10	* ArbitrarySkepticism: Molly's dad simply refuses to believe that the cult is coming for his daughter, even though ''he made a {{deal 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]]?
11	* ChekhovsGun: 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.]]
12	* DealWithTheDevil: 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:[[FaceHeelTurn as one of their own]]]].
13	* DoomedMoralVictor: [[spoiler:Both Molly's mom and Alexis realized that Molly would [[FaceHeelTurn turn evil]], and tried to kill her to stop it.]]
14	* EvilOverlooker: [[spoiler:Joseph standing front and center on the poster. And at the end, the same goes for Molly.]]
15	* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:Alexis tries to kill Molly]] after finding out about her curse. This FaceHeelTurn is later subverted by a second, bigger one: [[spoiler:Molly's, proving that Alexis was right in trying to kill her]].
16	* TheFundamentalist: Alexis, one of the saner (or at least, more sympathetic) examples. Even her [[spoiler:trying to kill Molly]] was pretty damn well justified, considering what happens after.
17	* GainaxEnding: Molly [[spoiler:joins the Satanic cult, despite all indication during the rest of the movie that she was trying to escape from it, then it cuts to her giving a graduation speech]].
18	* GenreShift: 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.
19	* HauntedHeroine: Guess who?
20	* HolierThanThou: Alexis.
21	* InformedAbility: We never actually see any of the great demonic power that [[spoiler:Molly inherits on her 18th birthday]].
22	* JumpScare: Pretty much the film's stock method of building suspense.
23	* MirrorScare: Played painfully straight.
24	* ShoutOut: Molly has a [[{{Manga/Bleach}} Byakuya Kuchiki]] keychain in one scene.
25	* SoundtrackDissonance: [[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. ]]
26	* SupernaturalProofFather: Taken to extremes. See ArbitrarySkepticism.
27	* TheMole: [[spoiler:Joseph and the guidance counselor]] turn out to be part of the Satanic cult that's trying to claim Molly.
28	* [[spoiler:VillainProtagonist]]: Molly at the end.
29	* WildTeenParty

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