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MOVIE SUMMARY:

The movie is about Olivia played by Carmina Villaroel who has a daughter named Anelle played by Krystal Brimner who is at the hospital due to congenital heart defect.

Olivia wants for Anelle to be comfortable during her hospital stay so she looks for a job to ensure that her daughter can stay in a private room. She gets accepted at Liboro Global Outsourcing (LGO).

LGO is owned by Karen Liboro played by Mylene Dizon. Olivia is trained by Lance played by JC Santos.

She also meets and become friends with Mimi played by Kate Alejandrino a self-proclaimed professional trainee, since she only stays to get the trainee allowance before leaving to look for another job. Mimi decides to stay however due to Olivia.

While working a spirit becomes attached to her and begins to disrupt her work. The spirit, Nerisa reveals herself to Olivia and she unknowingly frees the spirit from the building when she led Nerisa out thinking she is a lost child.

Nerisa possessed Anelle's body and because of this Anelle's congenital heart defect vanished and she was allowed to leave the hospital. The hospital bill was too much for Olivia but Lance gives her the money, however he had bad intentions towards Olivia and tries to force himself on her but she was able to escape. Olivia told Mimi what happened and Nerisa/Anelle heard it. Nerisa then kills Lance in the basement.

Due to Anelle's sudden behavioral changes Olivia deducts that Nerisa had possessed her daughter. So that Nerisa would leave her and her daughter alone she made a deal with Nerisa. She would help find Nerisa's mother,Perla and find her body which was in the room in the Liboro basement.

With the help of Mimi they were able to find Perla and sneak in the Liboro building basement. Perla and Nerisa had devious plans however and while in the room in the basement Perla kills Mimi and knocks out Olivia. Perla plans to conduct a ritual to transfer her soul to Olivia but Karen arrives and frees Olivia. Nerisa runs but Olivia pursues her and they were able to cast Nerisa out. 

Once again Anelle is in the hospital as her condition returned. Karen assures Olivia that she will take care of everything. She then invites Olivia with her to go meet the police and while they are in the elevator it is implied that Perla had taken over Karen's body.

MY THOUGHTS:

The movie made me feel attached to a character, usually when I watch horror movies I don't really get attached but I really liked Mimi. When they were in the basement I knew that she was gonna die and I was really hoping she wasn't but she did.

With regards to Nerisa I thought as the movie went on that Olivia was in over her head, because there doesn't seem to be any illusions that Nerisa was good at all. Even when they first met and they were going down the stairs she already looked sinister and I think Olivia felt that there was something wrong with her too. I guess Olivia held on to the hope that after she fulfills her promise to Nerisa that the spirit would leave her and Anelle alone.

MY THOUGHTS:

I'm not really a fan of horror films that features creatures as the source of horror but I wanted to watch this to delve into other branches of horror.

It's a good film but it was not that enjoyable for me maybe because I enjoy films more when I get attached to the characters and there was no one here to get attached to. I did like Rand though, especially when he was making sure that Jonah won't make any regrets or mistakes when they were talking to Nyx.

The siren, Lily freaked me out but it actually has to do with her eyes, because they are big.

I also liked the concept with the bartender being able to extract your memories using the leeches she has on her head, and also being able to give those memories to other people but you have to drink/eat the leech.

Regarding the acting, I thought it was good but there were just some scenes where the reactions of the characters seem lacking. When the siren took Jonah, Mac the older brother didn't seem to care, but I guess the limited reaction maybe because he was shocked that his brother was being carried away by a monster. When Mac was killed, Jonah didn't react the way I thought he would react but I guess they were never close.