Solstice (2008)

Solstice (2008)

Horror/Mystery

Remake of the Danish movie, Midsommer from 2003.
Megan's twin sister Sophie committed suicide few months ago, since then she's been feeling crazed. When comes time
for summer solstice trip to the lake house, in the bayou of Lousiana with her friends, Megan doesn't feel right to be going.
Not wanting to let down her friends, she goes with them to the trip. Arriving to the summer house, Megan tries to put memories about Sophie behind her, though it doesn't seem to be happening when the house is filled with memories of her. Megan wakes up in the middle of the night, finds car doors open and lights on. She finds a key chain that belonged to
Sophie. Megan confesses the happenings to Christian, who shares her feelings and reveals he has been seeing Sophie like figure after her death. Megan tries to clear her head and invites Nick, small town's shop clerk to solstice dinner she and her friends are having. Nick and Megan talk about Sophie's death and how every time Megan leaves Sophie key chain something, it finds its way back to her. Nick advices Megan to connect with Sophie's spirit to find some peace of soul. They all get in the water, hold hands and Nick starts to speak in foreign language. Suddenly Megan's hand starts to bleed and she's pulled under water for some moments. Everyone is freaked out by what happened, leave from the circle and go back to the house. After Mark plays boogeman joke on Megan, she starts coughing mud. Her friends take her back to the house, where she faints. She wakes up and runs out of the house, thinking she knows where to find Sophie, but instead they find body of a little girl named Malin. While Mark, Christian and Alicia ride to call the help from the police, Christian gets a memory flashback, where she reminds how she and Sophie hit a little girl and escaped from the crime scene. He accidentally shoots Mark with a gun and runs to the woods to find Malin. Christian confesses to Megan how he hit Malin in the car accident, he and Sophie didn't want to get arrested and buried the body. After a while Sophie committed suicide because she couldn't bear the guilt of killing and burying someone. Christian runs towards the woods, Megan is chasing him, but can't reach to him until he gets hit by a police car that has been called out. Christian dies instantly. 
Directed and written by Daniel Myrick, who directed horror movie The Blair Witch Project in 1999 and wrote screenplay
for horror-thriller The Objective in 2008.

Cast: Elisabeth Harnois, Shawn Ashmore, Hilarie Burton, Amanda Seyfried, Tyler Hoechlin, Matt O'Leary