Review: Immaculate (2024)

• Directed by Michael Mohan
• Written by Andrew Lobel
• Stars Sydney Sweeney, Alvaro Morte, Simona Tabasco
• Run Time: 1 Hour, 29 Minutes
• Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewxS9Z-XXYo

Spoiler-Free Judgment Zone

This is one with a slow start, an almost disappointing first half, that picks up abruptly with a strong finish. Sydney Sweeney is excellent in the lead role. We ended up liking it quite a bit and would give it a thumbs up.

Spoilery Synopsis

A nun prays and then sneaks around after dark. She goes into the sleeping priest’s room and steals his keys. Keys in hand, she makes a run for it, but she has trouble getting the big chains off the front gate. As she struggles with the lock, four hooded figures come out of the convent behind her and break her leg. She passes out from the pain, but when she awakens, she’s been buried alive in a coffin. Credits roll and she screams and pounds in the dark.

Sister Cecilia is an American who has come to Italy to become a nun. The convent bought her ticket, and the immigration people think that’s strange. A priest comes to pick her up and drive her to the convent. He drives her through the big gates we saw earlier.