I generally give a go to horror movies which scores 5 or higher on IMDb and this was one of those movies. However I am very much disappointed and surprised of the high rating. I will keep it short, since there is very little to tell. This is not an horror movie, it is a mystery talking about a group of teenagers spending a few days in a house in the wood. There is really nothing impressive, storyline is boring and predictable, there is no gore or scaring scenes, just the acting is pretty decent. Believe me, do not waste your time, you are about to watch another boring and predictable mystery movies with a very poor and predictable story.3/10

Megan's sister dies, she commits suicide and no one know why she made this gesture. Trying to forget this tragedy her along with three friends go to a house in the forest to a city with very few inhabitants. But here she starts to have some visions and thinks that her sister is trying to transmit something. How everyone else believes that she is crazy it's now up to her to find the message using the signs which she receives. At the same time she has memories of the past where she was at a party with her friends and also using these visions will have to put them together to find the truth. But what will find will lead her to something else than she could have imagined and that the ex-boyfriend of her sister and who is now her actually BF committed a crime while they were driving and in a moment inadvertently killed an innocent little girl that was on a bike.Solstice is meant to be a horror film but unfortunately sequences that had to scare us are too few and a fan of this genre, this film would not move even a hair from their head. The story is good, I personally liked the beginning but in the process gets frustrating, boring and slow advancing to the outcome.

"Solstice" (2008) was made by the creator of "The Blair Witch Project", Daniel Myrick, and is a more conventional horror flick. Like "Blair", "Solstice" takes the subtle route with the creep factor and the typical trappings of slasher or quasi-slasher flicks; so stay away if you need serious gore, sex and nudity with your horror.The film runs 90 minutes and the first hour plays out like myriad other monster/ghost movies -- a group of youths venture to some secluded area to party and tensions increase as the creep factor increases. What separates "Solstice" from, say, most of the Friday the 13th flicks, besides lack of gore, is the serious and realistic vibe of the proceedings. While this is welcomed by me, it also makes for a less entertaining viewing -- for the first hour, that is.The last half hour is where everything comes together and there's almost a Wow factor as you realize what's really going on and what happened, etc.While the cast are all no-names, except Amanda Seyfried (who wasn't that well-known at the time), they're effective enough. They could've done better with the women, but the main protagonist is decent, Elisabeth Harnois.The film was shot in Louisiana.GRADE: B

We have here another thriller in which a bunch of young people head out into the middle of nowhere and find themselves stuck in a "scary" situation. What I will say in favour of this movie is that at least it avoided the cliché of having some type of cannibalistic mass murderer out to get them (a cliché that was actually mentioned by one of the characters when they met up with the creepy old guy from the other side of the lake.) In this case, we have young Megan, still tormented by the suicide of her twin sister six months before, heading off with a bunch of her friends on their annual trip to celebrate the summer solstice in the Bayou of Louisiana. Why they do this wasn't entirely clear to me, except that Megan's mom is some sort of anthropologist or something who specializes in culture and so apparently they celebrate every holiday known to humanity (which is a pretty nice gig if you can get it!) Once they're in the Bayou, Megan starts to have visions which she thinks are of her sister, and she discovers in a magazine (quite conveniently) that the summer solstice is the perfect time to contact the dead. She also conveniently runs into a local hunk of a grocery store clerk who happens to know how to contact the dead because his grandmother was involved in voodoo. I'm not kidding.Now, as truly silly as that all seems, I have to say that, while it's full of mostly forgettable (although not bad) performances, this movie isn't terrible. There's a pretty decent buildup of the intrigue and suspense until the final secret which finally connects both Megan's visions and the creepy old guy is revealed, but you do have to get through a lot of pretty cliché type situations to get there. As a timewaster this isn't bad, but if you want a really good thriller, this is not going to satisfy at all. 5/10