Immaculate

“Not every intervention is divine.”

6.2

2024

1h 29m

HorrorMysteryThriller

Director: Michael Mohan

Overview

An American nun embarks on a new journey when she joins a remote convent in the Italian countryside. However, her warm welcome quickly turns into a living nightmare when she discovers her new home harbours a sinister secret and unspeakable horrors.

Trailer

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Cast

Sister Cecilia

Sydney Sweeney

Sister Cecilia

Father Sal Tedeschi

Álvaro Morte

Father Sal Tedeschi

Sister Mary

Simona Tabasco

Sister Mary

Sister Gwen

Benedetta Porcaroli

Sister Gwen

Cardinal Franco Merola

Giorgio Colangeli

Cardinal Franco Merola

Mother Superior

Dora Romano

Mother Superior

Sister Isabelle

Giulia Heathfield Di Renzi

Sister Isabelle

Doctor Gallo

Giampiero Judica

Doctor Gallo

Sister Francesca

Betti Pedrazzi

Sister Francesca

Deacon Enzo

Giuseppe Lo Piccolo

Deacon Enzo

Sister Friede

Cristina Chinaglia

Sister Friede

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Niccolò Senni

Customs Official

Reviews

CinemaSerf

Now I did quite like the underlying premiss of this take on the immaculate conception but boy, the execution and the acting are something completely different. "Cecilia" (Sydney Sweeney) is taken to a beautifully rustic convent where she is welcomed with open arms. Everyone says how pretty and blessed she is, and this rather flies in the face of her natural humility. Imagine her shock, then, when she is summoned to the cardinal (Giorgio Colangeli) and made to undergo some rather personal medical tests that reveal.... Well that'd be telling, and for a while Michael Mohan manage to sustain a little interest in just what is going on amidst the peace and quiet of this ancient sanctuary. Sadly, though, the story swiftly goes way off the rails and leaves us exposed to Sweeney's limited talents and an excess of hysteria that involves a chicken, a dimly lit catacomb and a dastardly plan that puts enormous strain on our increasingly inventive and resilient novice. As "Yoda" might have profoundly said, "loads of screaming and ketchup do not an horror film make" and after about half an hour here the writing is on the wall (perhaps the best place for it?) and my interest wained. This is a tough genre to keep interesting - there are few ideas that have not been done to death before. This has the germ of originality, but sadly it's a very small germ.

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r96sk

Passable. I think I wanted more from <em>'Immaculate'</em>, though what's provided is fairly watchable to be honest. Visually it looks neat, too. Sydney Sweeney's performance is as good as expected, the rest of the cast are all competent; Álvaro Morte the standout of them. The run time does fly by, I kinda felt watching that there wasn't really a middle - just one long build-up to the main event at the end. Speaking of which, 'the' scene at the conclusion made me smirk, the problem is that it most certainly was not supposed to; Cecilia's screams immediately sounded like that "<a href="https://youtu.be/ee925OTFBCA?si=s8NzVt0U6AX4jEg5&t=13" rel="nofollow">best cry ever</a>" meme* to me, I couldn't help but smile, I'm sorry. <em>*never knew the backstory to that clip until searching for it here, it's not quite so amusing now to be honest. awks.</em> All in all, I'd narrowly class this as a film worth watching. I almost got to see it by myself in an empty cinema, though a group of two inexplicably arrived like 30-45 minutes into the 90 minutes! That's gotta hurt.

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