In Immaculate, Cecilia (Sydney Sweeney) moves from the U.S. to Italy to take her vows and become a nun. While boarding at the local convent, she awakens to find that she has become miraculously pregnant. Those at the convent begin to worship Cecilia, seeing this as the work of God, but Cecilia isn't so sure. Things might not be as they appear.
Immaculate is way more of a bonkers, silly B-movie than you would expect (I’m honestly not sure the film knew it was silly/ a B-movie). It reminded me of A Cure For Wellness in a weird way. Sydney Sweeney easily earns her status as a scream queen. Álvaro Morte as Father Sal Tedeschi is great as well. Bernadetta Percarolli as Sister Gwen is memorable in a supporting role with minimal screen time.
There isn’t much development for our characters (Sister Gwen, Sydney Sweeney’s Sister Cicelia, and Father Sal Tedeschi get the most, and even then it’s pretty thread bare), and the film feels fairly simple and straight-forward. There’s also a good deal of jump-scares, none of which are all that effective or scary.
It’s not until the start of the third act that Immaculate reveals it’s secretly been a B-movie all along. The last 20 minutes goes-for-broke, and the final 3 or 4 minutes are quite memorable (though I wish they had shown more). Immaculate is entertaining/ “fun”, very fucked up, and very sacrilegious. Not today, Satan!
3 STARS
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