However, he also felt that the expected scares and suspense might make for an argument that the film was not a horror and was actually a ghostly drama/thriller. Solstice has received mixed reviews upon release.ĭon Sumner of Best Horror Movies felt the production values were comparable with large-budget films and that both the story and performances were believable and genuine, making the film interesting enough to keep the viewer's attention.
It had a theatrical release on June 19 in Russia, and a US television debut on Lifetime Television on July 26, before release in South Korea, Netherlands, Italy, the United Kingdom, Iceland and Mexico. Throughout the year, the film had international releases in Germany, Philippines and Greece. Solstice released direct to video on Januby The Weinstein Company. Endgame Entertainment developed, produced, and fully financed the film. Filming commenced in New Orleans in April, 2006, shooting in the Garden District and in bayous around Louisiana. He said he hoped that it would "hark back to elemental horror films like Rosemary's Baby and The Shining." The film met with problems due to Hurricane Katrina and production was postponed. Myrick announced the imminent shooting of Solstice while working on The Strand in 2005.
Jenna Hildebrand as Malin, a local girl who inexplicably went missing around a year earlier. Lee Ermey as Leonard, a local resident whom the group finds suspicious. Matt O'Leary as Mark, Alicia's boyfriend. Hilarie Burton as Alicia, Mark's girlfriend and a friend of Megan's. Amanda Seyfried as Zoe, Megan's best friend. 
Tyler Hoechlin as Nick, a resident of the town who works at a nearby gas station. Shawn Ashmore as Christian, Megan's love interest. Once there, she begins to feel a presence she believes to be that of her deceased twin sister Sophie, who has recently committed suicide. Elisabeth Harnois as Megan, a teenager who travels with her friends to a remote lake house during the summer solstice. Megan and Nick decide to go to the city to start a life together. When Leonard arrives home, he finds Malin's key chain on the porch, put there by Megan. Megan chases him through the forest but before she can reach him, he is hit by the police car that had been called out. Malin's ghost appears, and Christian runs away towards the road. In fear of being arrested, they buried her in the forest, and Sophie later committed suicide as she could not bear the guilt. They call the local police.Ĭhristian finally admits that the year before, when they all came to the lake house without Megan, he and Sophie were on a drive and accidentally hit Malin. Megan then digs up Malin's body and finds that the key on the key chain is for Malin's bicycle, which was buried with her. Nick and Megan get split up, and Christian almost shoots Nick. Megan takes Nick to where she tripped on her run, followed by the group of friends, including Christian ( Shawn Ashmore) who brings a gun. Megan realises she is being haunted by Malin, not Sophie. The following day, Megan goes to Leonard's house and, inside, finds a young girl's bedroom (presumably his daughter) newspaper cuttings explain a young girl called Malin disappeared from the town a year earlier. She goes for a bath, finding mud running out of the taps, and then sees the key chain lying on the floor. Megan then, advised by Nick, wraps the key chain in a white cloth and buries it outside, which he says should expel the spirit. The six of them later go swimming and Nick calls for any spirits with wine Megan is dragged under the water. Megan tells him about Sophie's key chain, something she is trying to get rid of but it keeps returning, and that she thinks she is being haunted by Sophie's lost ghost. The night before the solstice, Nick joins the group at the house for dinner. Lee Ermey) inside his pickup truck, she finds a hat identical to one Sophie had owned. As she limps back to the house, she meets a suspicious local resident, Leonard ( R. Megan goes running and trips, splitting her nail (something she had foreseen in several nightmares). On the way, at a gas station, they meet Nick ( Tyler Hoechlin), who provides the group with information on voodoo and other local superstitions.Īs soon as they arrive at the house, Megan suspects Sophie is trying to communicate with her, as a solstice - the time when our world and the next are closest - approaches. 
Teenager Megan ( Elisabeth Harnois), still distraught over her twin sister Sophie's suicide, reluctantly agrees to join her friends on a summer trip to a lake house in the bayous of Louisiana.
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