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Immaculate<\/strong> (2024)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Neon\/Horror\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 89 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (strong and bloody violent content, grisly images, nudity, some language)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Michael Mohan\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Andrew Lobel\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Will Bates\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Elisha Christian\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: March 22, 2024 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Sydney Sweeney, Alvaro Morte, Benedetta Porcaroli, Dora Romano, Giorgio Colangelo, Simona Tabasco, Giulia Heathfield Di Renzi, Giampiero Judica, Giuseppelo Piccolo. \u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Rating<\/strong>: ***<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0Nuns are hot right now. At least that\u2019s what the film industry would like you to think. Two weeks ago, we got the inspirational BOATS drama Cabrini about a nun from Italy who comes to New York to help immigrants and other poor souls. This week, it\u2019s the nunsploitation horror film Immaculate<\/strong> about a young nun from America who goes to a convent in Italy to begin her life as a bride of Christ. The two movies couldn\u2019t be more different, yet I like them both albeit for different reasons. One is a compelling true story about a saintly, selfless woman. The other is an effective horror film that owes a great debt to giallo and Rosemary\u2019s Baby. \u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0Rising star Sydney Sweeney (Anyone But You) plays Sister Cecilia, a novice nun about to take her final vows. We don\u2019t know much about her other than she survived a near-drowning as a child. She was clinically dead for seven minutes before doctors could successfully revive her. It was then she knew God had a plan for her. She arrives at a convent located in the remote Italian countryside where she\u2019ll be tending to old nuns about to die. Things go okay at first. Then she takes her vows. Shortly thereafter, she learns she\u2019s pregnant. How can this be? She\u2019s never been with a man. Her hymen is still intact. Are we talking about a miracle or is something sinister at work here? [Pssst, choose the latter.]<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0It\u2019s obvious something evil is going on behind the locked gates and doors of the convent. The film opens with another young nun trying to escape only to be captured and dragged back in by three hooded figures who bury her alive. Later, another nun jumps to her death from the roof. There\u2019s also the matter of Cecilia\u2019s superiors not wanting her to get checked out at a hospital. In fact, they don\u2019t want her to leave at all. Yeah, that\u2019s not too hinky.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0I only recently became acquainted with Sweeney after seeing her in Anyone But You and Madame Web. I like her. She\u2019s talented and beautiful and has an endearing way about her. She\u2019s good in Immaculate<\/strong> as the Mia Farrow character, a frightened young innocent slowly unraveling as she becomes aware of the evil all around her. I\u2019m not at all familiar with any of the supporting cast, but they all do a good job in their respective roles. However, this movie belongs to Sydney. She crushes it like a pro!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0It\u2019s been a grim year so far for horror with lame entries like Night Swim and Imaginary. Immaculate<\/strong> beats them both by a country mile. It has a creepy atmosphere, a couple of decent \u201cBOO!\u201d scenes and some great bloody scenes. That last one, as you know, is a strong selling point for me. A nun gets beaten to death with her crucifix and a priest gets stabbed in the neck with a nail supposedly from the original Cross. Lots of blood in both scenes. The aforementioned suicide is messy as well. The final scene, even though you don\u2019t see much of anything, will stay with you. It\u2019s f***ed up! These are the things I want to see in horror movies. You won\u2019t find them in the watered-down PG-13 studio craptrap.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0Directed by Michael Mohan (The Voyeurs, also starring Sydney), Immaculate<\/strong> is a solid horror flick. Yes, it\u2019s light on character development, but so what? It works just as well without it in this case. Also, Mohan doesn\u2019t prolong things. He keeps it brief at 89 minutes. What he\u2019s done here is a throwback to the Italian-made horrors of the 70s, a more polished version of the cheapies (typically with bad English dubbing) that used to play on double and triple bills at grindhouse theaters. I like it a lot.<\/p>\r\n Immaculate (2024)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Neon\/Horror\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 89 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (strong and bloody violent content, grisly images, nudity, some language)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Michael Mohan\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Andrew Lobel\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Will Bates\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Elisha Christian\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: March 22, 2024 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Sydney Sweeney, Alvaro Morte, Benedetta Porcaroli, Dora Romano, Giorgio Colangelo, Simona Tabasco, Giulia Heathfield Di Renzi, Giampiero Judica, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-horror"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Immaculate-PIC.jpg?fit=620%2C348&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1030,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions\/1030"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Immaculate-POSTER.jpg?resize=620%2C918&ssl=1\")
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