Immaculate (2024)
8/10
What Walt's Watching
21 March 2024
Get thee away from this nunnery!

In the new horror film, "Immaculate" there will be blood and lots of it and some of it human blood.

Sydney Sweeney's career is back on track after her disastrous turn in Marvel's "Madame Web".

As nubile, innocent nun, Sister Cecelia, she takes an oath of poverty, obedience and chastity.

Well as Meatloaf sang, "2 out of the 3 ain't bad." Sydney had so much faith in this movie succeeding she also produced "Immaculate" as her star rises.

Her character struggles with an innocent desire to serve the triumvirate, whilst also looking for somewhere to fit in and give her life real purpose.

Her vow to God and the Roman Catholic Church in this seemingly idyllic remote gated Italian community helps her find herself after an emotional incident from her traumatic childhood.

"Immaculate" has an old school 70's vibe to it in a good way like "The Omen", yet it's NOT a film about the paranormal.

Instead it's about good old fashioned faith and faith in science, but not Scientology.

A big shout out to Director Michael Mohan who plays out the intriguing story in a slow, deliberately delicious burn leaving plenty of crumbs to help you connect the dots by the third horrifying act.

"Immaculate" is a classic case of a successful film because it follows a few simple rules: good casting, engaging storytelling and tight direction with a refreshingly new tale and not a rehashed, tired Hollywood idea.

It will have its work cut out over the Easter Holiday Blockbuster season against "Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire" and "Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire".

Both of those huge budget movies prove my point though that Tinseltown is bereft of new ideas and keeps riffing on decades old characters.

Instead "Immaculate" it's a brand spanking fresh off the mint script by writer Andrew Lobel with plenty of jump scares for horror fans, but not all predictable ones.

It's a modern gothic horror, thriller that makes you squirm in your cinema seat and force you to look away occasionally with both the things seen and unseen on the screen in a place that houses dark, medieval, terrifying secrets and I'm not referring to the Candy Bar.
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