The Euphoria star's hot streak continues
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No one does it like Sydney Sweeney, our most idiosyncratic young movie star. Rising to fame from The White Lotus and Euphoria, her true star turn technically began in late 2023 with the release of Anyone but You, a tense throwback rom-com that turned into a huge box office hit. After that, she starred in the ghastly and mocking Madame Web, but managed to come out the other side not only unscathed, but brushed it off with A-list energy, joking about the film's failure on Saturday Night Live just weeks after it opened. Her next big win is Immaculate, a weird, fascinating and extremely funny new horror film that hits theaters later this March.
Immaculate opens with an American nun, Cecilia (Sweeney), moving to a quaint little convent in Italy that specializes in end-of-life care for her fellow religious sisters. But everything is a bit off; there are people wandering around in red masks, strange sisters who question her actions, and priests who are a little too friendly. After a few short days of difficult care work, Cecilia mysteriously becomes pregnant. Everyone in the monastery proclaims that she carries the second coming of Jesus Christ. Cecilia's life only gets weirder from there.
From the get-go, Immaculate director Michael Mohan is thoroughly committed to delivering a throwback exploitation flick of outrageous sleaze. There may not be any direct sex in the film, but there are long scenes of nuns bathing in skimpy white dresses and lurking priests lurking around every corner interrogating Cecilia about her virginity status – just to verify the purity and truth of their coming savior of course . Immaculate also has more graphic blood, guts and gore than most action movies these days. All these little elements are hallmarks of the 1970s prime nunsploitation, the horror thriller specifically centered on the fabric.
