‘Euphoria’ actress Sydney Sweeney anchors “Immaculate,” an uneven but memorably gory religious horror film.
A young American nun encounters shocking horrors at a remote Italian convent in “Immaculate,” a modern Gothic slow burn that simmers in pedestrian frights until it finally boils over into bursts of delicious, gory violence. When it does, anchored by an impressive performance by Sydney Sweeney, the bloodshed isn’t just welcome but cathartic, a gonzo takedown of religious patriarchy with one hell of a memorable finale that reconfirms the good news: Nunsploitation is back, baby.
She makes a fast friend in the rebellious Sister Gwen and an even faster enemy in the stern Sister Isabelle , but the devout Sister Cecilia isn’t the type to investigate the strange sights she starts to notice around the convent, where creepy nuns stalk the place in crimson masks and apparitions visit her at night and in her dreams.
“Immaculate” fast-forwards to the real terrors from there, even if Mohan, reuniting with Sweeney after directing her in “The Voyeurs,” over-relies on loud, telegraphed jump scares.
Elsewhere, easy gimmicks and an otherwise chilling opening sequence involving those creepy red-faced nuns don’t add up to much. Not that the film cares to make sense, leaping over glaring plot holes to get Cecilia to her delivery date so that Sweeney can let her pent-up repression rip in a divinely profane, memorably blood-soaked finale.
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