Immaculate: Not the horror movie you were hoping for
Immaculate was directed by Michael Mohan from a screenplay by Andrew Lobel, featuring Sydney Sweeney as a producer and leading actress. As the latter stated in an interview, her intention was to offer herself an old fashioned horror filmaiming above all to make the audience shiver in the theaters with its strange atmosphere and its jump. The intention was good, but the result much less so. Obviously, Immaculate it is not it’s not a good movie, not to mention a good horror movie. Barely effective in causing two or three surprises in the most sensitive, at best it will leave others politely bored. However, the feature film could be saved its pleasant ending, which would almost make you forget the rest. Explanations with lots of spoilers!
Between boredom and ridiculous
We follow Cecilia (Sydney Sweeney), a young American nun who joins an isolated convent in the Italian countryside. She soon feels that something sinister is brewing in these places. And even more so when she discovers that she has become pregnant without having had sexual intercourse. The idea was good, but the execution very, especially because characters we don’t believe in.
From the introduction, after all, who sees the actress Simona Tabasco (The White Lotus), reduced to a stealthy appearance. She plays a nun who, before Cecilia entered the convent, she tried to escape from the place. She is not very intelligent, she remains blocked by a gate for a long time before thinking of crossing a narrow space like Drew Barrymore in He shouted. But too late, the poor pumpkin is captured and his leg broke immediately. This is, after all, one of the rare shocks we will have ahead of us Immaculate.
Then comes Cecilia, who obviously has never set foot in a church and doesn’t even have the slightest idea of the rules that might exist in a convent. She is with a distressing naivety who discovers this new world. Furthermore, even in the face of exceptional events, the young woman remains rather passive. Even when another nun tries to drown her, before committing suicide, and her only friend, Sister Gwen (Benedetta Porcaroli), disappears after protesting.
When Sydney Sweeney screams until her jaw drops
Beyond this writing that leaves something to be desired, Immaculate does not bring nothing new or original. THE jump they usually end with Cecilia’s awakening from a simple nightmare, which prevents creating real concern (and therefore tension) for the heroine. However, something finally happens in the finale ofImmaculate. Suddenly, the horror movie turns into something more bloody and which takes on the grotesque. Cecilia, pursued by Father Tedeschi (Álvaro Morte), responsible for her condition, ends up killing him and receives in the process a nice splash of blood on the face. Something funny is starting to rear its head, and it doesn’t stop there!
Because after managing to escape the burning house, Cecilia has no choice but to give birth in the midst of nature. A close-up of Sydney Sweeney’s face finally highlights her acting skills. Seeing her scream to death is even more impressive a conclusion in apotheosis. Everything in sequence.
Judiciously using sounds rather than images, Michael Mohan makes us hear the frightening sound of the newborn baby who has all the characteristics of the antichrist. A bite of Cecilia to cut the cord, and a large stone to crush the creature later, and here we are on the verge of applauding at the closing credits. Because this riot of violence has something fun and uninhibited about it. A true madness as we see too rarely. Too bad it takes almost an hour and a half to get there. And of course it is insufficient to defend himself Immaculate. But there is no doubt that over time this passage could remain as one of the finest moments of Sydney Sweeney’s career.
Source: Cine Serie
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