Immaculate

In the end, I think it's totally fine, the final third is where the film defends its right to exist. In the end, Immaculate is pure B-movie crap, even though it initially looks like it might have higher ambitions. Once the cards are dealt and laid out, things get pretty intense, with the film going a little further than usual in Hollywood in the last scene, and for that, thumbs up. The craftsmanship fine, the acting is fine, the locations are fine. (04/20/2024)

Compared to The Omen it's as expected two levels worse, but it has my sympathy for the R-rating – had it been PG-13 I'd go for maybe a 2. Sydney Sweeney looks ordinary for the first time, she doesn't show her beautiful boobs in a mini dress and has no make up, she's no sex goddess, but an ordinary girl. Visually it's pretty average, the story is ordinary, though I appreciate it's not a ghost story, but it goes in a slightly different direction. The jump-scares didn't work for me, but the bit of gore was nice. All in all a watchable average but easily forgettable. 5/10. (04/17/2024)

The quality is exactly what I expected, but the idea is definitely beyond my expectations, because I thought it was a ghost story from a monastery, something we have seen lot of and it’s not impressive, but it ends up being something completely different, and I'm actually quite happy about it. I have to praise the idea, which although nothing ground-breaking is certainly a better choice than the spooky ghost, and also the absolutely amazing Sydney Sweeney, who for me is quite possibly one of the best actresses of the younger generation and who not only acts like a goddess, but is also nice to look at – all the more so when she walks around the monastery in a see-through dress for the whole film. I would also like to point out a couple of good scares, but I guess that's the end of my praise and it's time to criticize the film a bit. For one thing, as much as some scenes succeeded, twice as many failed, ranging from a couple of dozen jump-scares that you see coming miles ahead, to a muddled and predictable script, to a silly ending and a lot of other nonsense that was sort of expected from, but still disappoints. In the end, it's just another generic bullshit movie, the kind that has been produced annoyingly enough lately, and I'm actually getting a bit tired of the endless waiting for the next hit in the horror genre, which just refuses to come. Plus points for Sweeney, which got my attention 100%, but the rest is just bland. Seen as part of a special screening, otherwise I probably wouldn't have spent the money on this... (03/20/2024)