***SPOILERS*** Not what you would expect from a possession type movie with the music of the teeny popper hit song from the 1950's "Venus" being played all throughout film has the terribly confused Mariam Oliver, Karen Black, having nightmares about her past that's slowly driving her insane. It's when she goes shopping for clothes and decides to buy a tight red sweater and blond wig that her real personality comes to the surface: That as blond party girl Sandy Logan.
It's Mariam's lawyer husband Greg, played by the overly sun tanned "Handsome Geroge" Hamilton, who notices something strange about his wife who claims she's dead but doesn't quite know it. Thinking that Mariam needs a vacation or better yet a shrink, psychiatrist, he as well as her decides to spend a few weeks in a rented cottage by the beach to get her mixed up head straightened out. As it soon turns out the people that she meets there make her more psychotic then she already was. It turns out that everyone recognizes her, in her blond wig and tight red swather,as Sandy Logan who was the hottest chick there until she dropped out of sight some 5 years ago.
****MAJOR MAJOR SPOILERS**** Trying to find herself and who she is Mariam goes to the house where Sandy was last living in and is told that it belonged to a Mrs. Dempsey, Jean Allison, who's out shopping. Later when Sandy or Marian finally meets Mrs. Dempsey all hell breaks loose in that she looks exactly like her late daughter who was killed in a car accident five years ago. Only that she isn't her late daughter, who also happens to be named Mariam, but is in fact the long missing Sandy Logan! It takes a while to sort out what exactly happening but it's Mariam, the live one, who later explains how all this started and just what her dreams of being dead was all about. To the total surprise and confusion of her husband, who if he wasn't confused enough already, Greg as well as those of us watching the movie!
It's Mariam's lawyer husband Greg, played by the overly sun tanned "Handsome Geroge" Hamilton, who notices something strange about his wife who claims she's dead but doesn't quite know it. Thinking that Mariam needs a vacation or better yet a shrink, psychiatrist, he as well as her decides to spend a few weeks in a rented cottage by the beach to get her mixed up head straightened out. As it soon turns out the people that she meets there make her more psychotic then she already was. It turns out that everyone recognizes her, in her blond wig and tight red swather,as Sandy Logan who was the hottest chick there until she dropped out of sight some 5 years ago.
****MAJOR MAJOR SPOILERS**** Trying to find herself and who she is Mariam goes to the house where Sandy was last living in and is told that it belonged to a Mrs. Dempsey, Jean Allison, who's out shopping. Later when Sandy or Marian finally meets Mrs. Dempsey all hell breaks loose in that she looks exactly like her late daughter who was killed in a car accident five years ago. Only that she isn't her late daughter, who also happens to be named Mariam, but is in fact the long missing Sandy Logan! It takes a while to sort out what exactly happening but it's Mariam, the live one, who later explains how all this started and just what her dreams of being dead was all about. To the total surprise and confusion of her husband, who if he wasn't confused enough already, Greg as well as those of us watching the movie!