'Lovely Molly' (2012) – Eduardo Sánchez.

The first time I watched Eduardo Sánchez's desperately gloomy psychological chiller I was in truth a trifle underwhelmed, not a mediocre film by any means, but it just didn't 'click' with me, but the second viewing proved to be quite the sinister charm! Clearly more appreciative of the work, I found myself being morbidly engrossed in this magnificently twisted, frequently claustrophobic descent into newly-wed Molly's darkly insidious patriarchal nightmare. Director Sanchez ominously creates an oppressively evil atmosphere that sickly seeps from the very walls and cruelly corrupts poor Molly's reason, until she becomes increasingly consumed by terror as the blackened echoes of her tormented childhood threatens far more than Molly's tenuous sanity, ultimately putting her very life in desperate jeopardy! With its deliciously grim tonalities, spare, exquisitely unsettling music by Alt-rock legends Tortoise, and a movingly unfiltered performance by firebrand actor Gretchen Lodge as the undeniably distraught, yet still quite 'Lovely Molly', Eduardo Sánchez's mature, darkly dreamt nightmare deals with a tangibly disturbing narrative about the mental and physical malaise born of a terrible childhood trauma in a surprisingly adult manner, and those looking for enervating jump-scares should seek out Blumhouse, as the oblique horrors herein are dangerously close to home!