Solstice
Solstice
PG-13 | 01 January 2008 (USA)
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While on a summer trip with her friends, Megan begins to feel the presence of Sophie, her twin sister who recently committed suicide.

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GL84

Hoping to overcome her twins' death, a woman joining her friends on a weekend camping trip starts to believe her ghost is haunting her and her friends to unravel the mysterious events surrounding her death.This is a decent and enjoyable supernatural effort. One of the better parts to this is the set-up here for the ghostly connection, which manages to make it believable that these experiences are happening for once. Rather than simply rely on the traditional manner of loud shock- jumps or boo-scares to sell the point to her, instead here relying more on intuition generated from creepy encounters that build to a fine whole with the two encounters shown here in the scene with her alone in the house or going into the bathroom with the sludge from the faucets and the distractions coming from outside as well as the different encounters shown with her continually-shifting bloody finger-tips which makes for an unnerving tactic by making it pop up from pretty mysterious origins when it's least expected. That is based alongside the running storyline of the reappearing charm as well as incidental scenes with the clogged bathtub or the car's headlights going off-and-on for additional creepy moments that all build the ghostly presence quite well. From there, the final half to this is where all these pay-off nicely as the series of chases through the marsh, the digging in the torrential rainfall and the full revelation of the mystery surrounding it are all brought into clear play which makes for a few chilling moments and some rather enjoyable moments that come into play here. These are enough to help this one overcome the few flaws here, mostly the fact that this one keeps all these ghost encounters to such brief moments which leave this feeling more like a supernatural-themed drama of her pouting about the loss. There's never a sense of really exploiting the ghostly visions since there's so few chances to do this with them bring so brief against the drawn-out drama scenes that it really tends to crawl along quite lethargically for the most part until the finale so these scenes are disrupting that kind of pace for the most part. The other factor with this one that really sticks out here is the rather bland manner as not only is this once against the clichéd notion of being broken up to hide the storyline twist since the mystery of the ghost activities are the central point here but also that there's never a really interest way to get this one sorted out to become all the more watchable. These here hold this one down somewhat.Rated PG-13: Violence, Language and teenage drinking.

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toni-cooke18

This film had a recognizable cast, many familiar faces.It took a while to start off, I found myself getting bored towards the middle.I wouldn't call it scary but it did have a few predictable jump out your seat moments.And what all thriller/chiller movie needs - a scary little ghost girl!The setting made the film, perfect location for a scary film.You have to wait until the end to understand the whole film, and when the plot finally emerges, it isn't as lousy as I had thought all the way through. It was actually pretty clever.But I still have unanswered questions.. unless twins do have some sort of unique telepathic powers! Or the legend of Solstice is true (I just find it hard to follow films that defy logic!)

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SnoopyStyle

Megan (Elisabeth Harnois) is still grieving her twin sister Sofie's suicide. She goes to her family's Louisiana house with friends Christian (Shawn Ashmore), Zoe (Amanda Seyfried), Mark (Matt O'Leary) and Alicia (Hilarie Burton). She befriends local Nick. She feels a presence imagining it to be Sofie. With the Solstice coming, she hopes to reconnect with her but finds a darker secret.Daniel Myrick who brought the world The Blair Witch Project is going with a more traditional horror movie. Without a gimmick, he gives few scares and little suspense. This one stars some pretty good actors. Although I like all the actors, the characters have little chemistry. This is more due to a very bland script. The ghost story has very few scary moments. The reveal lacks any tension or satisfaction. If not for the likable actors, I wouldn't care about anything in this movie. It is simply forgettable. Nothing annoying or offensive. Just bland.

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mjlyl1982

I personally felt that the story had some familiarity but also a bit of originality to it as well. The acting was reasonable for a teen crew, cinematography was good, and the score was eerie enough to keep it interesting. I agree with another poster who said this was more a mystery movie than a horror movie and it definitely had a "noir-ish" atmosphere to it. Also - completely irrelevant, but did anyone else think that Elisabeth Harnois looks like Taylor Swift?I watched the movie from a R1 DVD with 5.1 audio (released by Alliance) and thought the mix was quite good. The DVD itself is pretty bare-bones with no real special features other than an audio commentary; kind of disappointing as it would have been neat to see a featurette on New Orleans post-Katrina in the area the movie was filmed. I couldn't help thinking of "The Skeleton Key" - another mystery/suspense movie filmed in New Orleans as well.

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