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2008 · drama · horror · mystery

Solstice

Directed by Daniel Myrick1h 31m2008
ElsewhereIMDb5.37k
  • sombre
  • cold
Movie DNA

Sombre, steady, measured drama / horror, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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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.

Our read · Solstice (2008) reads as a sombre, steady, inventive drama · horror · mystery entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want a low-budget summer horror haunted by a twin's suicide.

ends unsettlingit leaves you shakena slow buildgrips by minute 18attention 3/5earns its length
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upsuicide themejump scares

Skip it tonightSkip if suicide grief and generic teen scares will leave you cold.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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