Mira (Judy Ann Santos) has lost her memory in a car accident, and when
she tries to remember her past life, she comes to the conclusion that she
doesn't like the person she has been all that much: The old Mira has
cheated on her husband Paul (Dennis Trillo), has neglected her blind
daughter Sophie, and worst of all, she has denied the existence of her
twin sister Maria (also Judy Ann Santos), whom she had silently locked
away in an asylum, where Maria since has died. Soon, some spirit woman
appears to Mira, and later also to Paul and Sophie, and before long it
becomes apparent the spirit is dead Maria, and she doesn't seem to be in
too good a mood. Paul and Mira get the assistance of a mystic, but all he
can do is to warn them of the next eclipse (only a few days away),
when the spirit will take physical form, and the two of them take all
kinds of precautions ... but at the night of the eclipse, everything is
turned onto its head as it's revealed that Mira is actually Maria, as the
two have exchanged minds before the one's accident and the other's death,
and for some reason, the woman who was so far presented as the new and
improved Mira is suddenly the film's villain while the spirit is actually
with the forces of good. Suffice to say, bad Maria possessing Mira is
killed in the end, while the spirit of Mira bids a warm farewell to her
husband and daughter - whom she has neglected all of her natural life ... This
film starts out as an interesting if not wholly original horror mystery -
though the idea of an amnesiac ghost hasn't been used too often -, but once
the story is turned onto its head in the finale, it loses itself in its
own logic and becomes ridiculous. What remains is a competently made
run-of-the-mill shocker that could have greatly profited from a better
script ...
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