Immaculate (2024)

Immaculate-(2024)
Immaculate (2024)

Immaculate” is marketed as a feminist horror film that focuses on women’s bodily autonomy. However, the film does not live up to the expectations set by this bold marketing strategy. Sydney Sweeney, the leading star in the film had recently been under a lot of limelight with her roles in “Anyone But You” and with “SNL” hosting. This opportunity allowed her to grow her career as a leading actress in a horror thriller called Immaculate, a film under one of the best production houses, Neon. Sweeney delivered a great performance in the film but still feels out of place in a movie with such low ambition. Immaculate, in her mind, was a perfect project that she produced as it was a passion project for her. However, this clearly hints that she was the only cast member involved who gave her all to produce something worthwhile.

Cecilia, the character played by Sweeney, is the only one we know badly she is so strongly devoted and can be described as surviving a childhood incident where she fell on a frozen lake and should have died. As with almost every character in “Immaculate,” Cecilia is an enigma, a chess piece lifted on a genre board. It is not always a concern if a picture has the vision to compensate for sparse character arcs however, Michael Mohan’s film may be said to go out of its way to be devoid of visual language dull where it should be bright, and one-dimensional where it should be three-dimensional in texture. A lot of people will refer to this movie as Giallo’s because Giallo’s are Italian horror set up in a convent however, Giallo’s is in your face loud movie making that the likes of “Immaculate” don’t even bother with let alone actually attempt to execute.

Cecelia comes at an undetermined timeline in her life to an Italian convent and this time frame in the film is a bit bugging It’s never that apparent in any way. It’s the rather quite secluded area of the countryside that this convent is located in. Now, We know that this is a house of the Lord because of one of those classic horror movie beginning scenes where a girl is being hunted down and murdered by some unknown people, so it’s awful really. In this one, it’s the sisters in broad red masks who stop a young nun from escaping, and they bury her alive. Is Cecelia now assuming the role of the one captured, and will she have the same dark ending as the one that has happened before?

The much more vibrant imaginational imagery comes to Cecelia quite soon after her arrival at the convent, and quite startled by certain other occupiers of this relatively a mess comprising a nun school and an elder nun’s home. The plot of this particular location where the majority of the action centers around is attempted to be visually captivating but only ends up being confusing and pointless with loads of potential explored in Andre Lobel’s text but unfortunately almost entirely omitted in the final cut. Again, fans do not want to be disappointed when they turn on a specific genre movie, in this case, god knows what. They want to SEE the unnecessary and unrealized allusions. The prime arc of “Immaculate” starts when Cecelia finds out that she is with the child even after never sleeping with a man. Glory in the heavens? Or something far more sinister? Asaptani and Lobel basically do not perform well at all in terms of supplying us with a satisfactorily relieving answer. All of them are absolutely intricate and yet the level of incomprehensible restraint that the creative team behind “Immaculate” showcases, makes us wonder if it is the intention to come across as patronizing.

Over all this, Sydney Sweeney manages to keep the camera solicitously. She’s adding intriguing roles to her catalog that further distances her from her earliest works on Reality “Anyone but You” and now this one. And it is appreciable. She goes to some very dark places here, portraying a desiring character that is complimented in its intensity in the last unforgettable scene leaving the audience thinking Biswas made a good movie despite its many shortcomings.

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