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    A few months after the death of her twin sister Sophie, Megan and her friends spend one last time at her family’s summer home in the Louisiana bayou.  The summer solstice is approaching and Megan keeps noticing some increasingly odd occurrences, becoming convinced that Sophie is trying to contact her from beyond the grave. 

    What to say about this Daniel Myrick’s (The Blair Witch Project) little straight to DVD flick? Hmmmm… This is a tame supernatural tale that moves pretty slowly and then stops to show teen stars that I don’t care about drink and banter.  There are some flashbacks too, so we learn that Sophie’s demise is shrouded in secrecy. Since what’s going on in the film won’t hold your interest, you’ll have time to wonder: is this a “vengeful spirit about to attack her gathered friends” film or “uncover the mystery of an untimely death” film?  You want things to be one way, but they’re another…and they aren’t scary. 

    Great.  Let’s find out why Sophie died.  Maybe the creepy local knows something?  Hey, that would be great because the creepy local is none other than R. Lee Ermey.  As it happens, he does figure into the mystery of Sophie’s death, but don’t get too excited because this is PG-13.   

    A few boring odd things happen to Megan and they usually involve flashbacks, mud or a teddy bear keychain.  That keychain just won’t go away.  There’s more mud than blood…tons of mud.  There’s a muddy ghost.  Mud comes out of the faucets.  The blood just comes from a cut finger, but it’s all too much for Megan.  She wants to try to use the solstice to contact her dead sister and a local agrees to help her and more boring stuff happens but you do find out what happened by the end of the film.   

    Ok, it wasn’t awful but you won’t jump and you will not be scared.  The acting isn’t horrendous and features R. Lee Ermey.  It has a decent setting, which is unfortunately wasted.   It had a coherent story, yet I find it disappointing that Myrick’s latest has left no impression at all, except disinterest. 

* 1/2

-Jennie Milojevic