Movie · 2024 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 1h 29m · R · English
Curator score: 1.7/10 (635.8K ratings)
Not every intervention is divine.
Overview
An American nun embarks on a new journey when she joins a remote convent in the Italian countryside. However, her warm welcome quickly turns into a living nightmare when she discovers her new home harbours a sinister secret and unspeakable horrors.
Ratings
Curator score: 1.7/10
IMDb: 5.8/10
Letterboxd: 2.88/5
Rotten Tomatoes: 71%
Metacritic: 57
TMDB: 6.2/10
Director
Michael Mohan
Production
Black Bear Pictures, Fifty-Fifty Films, Middle Child Pictures
Cast
Sydney Sweeney, Álvaro Morte, Simona Tabasco, Benedetta Porcaroli, Giorgio Colangeli, Dora Romano, Giulia Heathfield Di Renzi, Giampiero Judica, Betti Pedrazzi, Giuseppe Lo Piccolo, Cristina Chinaglia, Niccolò Senni, Isabel Desantis, Viviane Florentine Nicolai, Marisa Regina, Laura Camassa, Cinzia Fantauzzi, Tiziano Ferracci
Where to watch
Hulu
Curator Review
Verdict
A glossy, pulpy religious-horror thriller with strong atmosphere and a committed lead performance, but it leans heavily on familiar genre beats and shock value. The setting, production design, and body-horror imagery do a lot of the heavy lifting, while the script is more effective as a provocative premise than as a fully satisfying mystery.
Best for
Viewers who like convent, cult, or Catholic-horror settings
Fans of body horror and pregnancy-related dread
People in the mood for a stylish, camp-adjacent thriller
Audiences who enjoy a strong central performance carrying a flawed script
Skip if
You want subtle, slow-burn horror over jump scares
You’re tired of religious-horror tropes and possession-adjacent plotting
You dislike body horror or pregnancy anxiety as a central device
You need a tightly plotted mystery with strong payoff
Overview
Immaculate is the kind of horror movie that knows exactly what image it wants to burn into your brain. The Italian convent setting gives it instant gothic texture, and the film makes good use of corridors, candlelight, ritual, and bodily unease to create a sticky, anxious mood. Sydney Sweeney is fully committed, especially once the movie shifts from uneasy mystery into outright nightmare mode.
Worth noting
What holds it back is familiarity. The movie often feels like it is remixing better-known religious-horror ideas rather than discovering a new one, and the script can be thin where the visuals are rich. It’s strongest when it leans into dread, grotesque escalation, and the absurdity of its premise; weaker when it tries to sound deeper than it is.
Bottom line
Still, as a slick, crowd-pleasing horror ride, it works more often than it doesn’t. If you want a polished genre piece with a nasty streak, strong atmosphere, and a lead performance that never phones it in, it’s worth a look. If you want something genuinely fresh or psychologically layered, it may leave you wanting more.
Top Letterboxd reviews
haley (3.5★) · 21326 likes
nothing scarier than being pregnant
Ben Clay (3.5★) · 19065 likes
I would like to see the baby
Kylo (3.5★) · 16408 likes
Sydney Sweeney’s character went through blood, sweat and tears in this movie but she had no intention of learning any Italian.