Sydney Sweeney may very well be the hottest name in Hollywood right now, but Michael Mohan, director of Immaculate (2024), appeared in the recent Severin cellar video and talked a good one about various other films; hence he's the real reason I gave this nun themed horror a look in.
Don't have the time to delve into the film with a full review, other than to say I liked it, despite the tediously excessive jump scares and a plot that needed a little more refining. Nowhere near as great as Benedetta (2021), but way better than the horrid The Nun II (2023), which was amongst the worst films I watched last year.
As a fan of giallo cinema and Italian horror, it warmed the cockles of my heart hearing Bruno Nicolai's Servizio Fotografico, originally taken from The Red Queen Kills Seven Times (1972) soundtrack, in a montage scene from Immaculate where it fitted incredibly well. A film nerd moment which isn't cringeworthy doesn't happen too often, so it earned some props from me. It's also a nice change hearing it in an Italian style horror again after Arctic Monkeys horribly hijacked it.
Now that's a homage I never woulda spotted.
ReplyDeleteBest closing scene of a 2024 movie so far IMHO.
That ending elevated it somewhat, imo.
ReplyDeleteAlso, Immaculate's convent is he same film location used for the trash masterpiece Burial Ground: Nights of Terror.