Sister Cecilia
Sydney Sweeney
Father Sal Tedeschi
Álvaro Morte
Sister Gwen
Benedetta Porcaroli
Mother Superior
Dora Romano
Cardinal Franco Merola
Giorgio Colangeli
Sister Mary
Simona Tabasco
Dr. Gallo
Giampiero Judica
Customs Official
Niccolò Senni
Sister Isabelle
Giulia Heathfield Di Renzi
Doctor Gallo
Giampiero Judica
Sister Francesca
Betti Pedrazzi
Deacon Enzo
Giuseppe Lo Piccolo
Sister Friede
Cristina Chinaglia
Young Cecilia
Isabel Desantis
Sister Sally
Viviane Florentine Nicolai
Sister Joan
Marisa Regina
Young Novice
Laura Camassa
Red Veiled Nun
Cinzia Fantauzzi
Weary Customs Official
Tiziano Ferracci
Producer
Teddy Schwarzman
Executive Producer
John Friedberg
Executive Producer
Christopher Casanova
Executive Producer
Will Greenfield
Art Direction
Francesco Scandale
Casting
Francesco Vedovati
Production Design
Adam Reamer
Set Decoration
Veronica Lopez
Hair Department Head
Luca Vannella
Unit Manager
Fabio di Lorenzo
Post-Production Manager
Gabriela Leibowitz
Unit Production Manager
Sabrina Manna
Set Production Assistant
Edoardo Brunatelli
Assistant Director
Annamarie Dicesare
Third Assistant Director
Sara Fathi
Second Assistant Director
Alessandro Specchio
First Assistant Director
Andrea Pagani
Set Production Assistant
Giulia Sardelli
Production Assistant
Roberto Scuro
Property Buyer
Ginevra Fusari
Assistant Art Director
Anthony Steven Visciglia
Sound Assistant
Sofia Novelli
Dailies Manager
Gianmarco Palluzi
Boom Operator
Gian Felice Soccorsi
Special Effects Supervisor
Paolo Galiano
Special Effects Technician
Enrico Toscano
Visual Effects Supervisor
Victor Perez
Stunt Double
Giulia Fraschetti
Stunt Coordinator
Alessandro Novelli
Camera Operator
Armando Avallone
Camera Operator
Alessio Bastianelli
Rigging Grip
Alessandro Biagioli
Script Supervisor
Valentina Scuro
Assistant Location Manager
Marion Marcucci
First Assistant Editor
Samuel Peterson
Dailies Manager
Alessio David Ciattini
Makeup Artist
Francesca Antonetti
Makeup Department Head
Federica Emidi
Makeup Artist
Chiara Fulli
Hairstylist
Elena Fabbiani
Sound Mixer
Gianpaolo Catanzaro
Sound Recordist
Zack Goldsborough
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Christian P. Minkler
Supervising Sound Editor
Bryan Parker
Second Unit Director of Photography
Antonello Emidi
Additional Photography
Lowell A. Meyer
Visual Effects Producer
Casey Roberts
Director of Photography
Elisha Christian
Visual Effects Supervisor
John Brubaker
Special Effects Coordinator
Laura La Fauci
Special Effects Coordinator
Elena Gentile
Sound Effects Editor
Joshua Adeniji
Sound Designer
Joshua Adeniji
Key Costumer
Lisa Crescioli
Costume Assistant
Annalaura Belli
CinemaSerf
Now I did quite like the underlying premiss of this take on the immaculate conception but boy, the execution and the acting are something completely different. "Cecilia" (Sydney Sweeney) is taken to a beautifully rustic convent where she is welcomed with open arms. Everyone says how pretty and blessed she is, and this rather flies in the face of her natural humility. Imagine her shock, then, when she is summoned to the cardinal (Giorgio Colangeli) and made to undergo some rather personal medical tests that reveal.... Well that'd be telling, and for a while Michael Mohan manage to sustain a little interest in just what is going on amidst the peace and quiet of this ancient sanctuary. Sadly, though, the story swiftly goes way off the rails and leaves us exposed to Sweeney's limited talents and an excess of hysteria that involves a chicken, a dimly lit catacomb and a dastardly plan that puts enormous strain on our increasingly inventive and resilient novice. As "Yoda" might have profoundly said, "loads of screaming and ketchup do not an horror film make" and after about half an hour here the writing is on the wall (perhaps the best place for it?) and my interest wained. This is a tough genre to keep interesting - there are few ideas that have not been done to death before. This has the germ of originality, but sadly it's a very small germ.
r96sk
Passable.
I think I wanted more from <em>'Immaculate'</em>, though what's provided is fairly watchable to be honest. Visually it looks neat, too. Sydney Sweeney's performance is as good as expected, the rest of the cast are all competent; Álvaro Morte the standout of them.
The run time does fly by, I kinda felt watching that there wasn't really a middle - just one long build-up to the main event at the end. Speaking of which, 'the' scene at the conclusion made me smirk, the problem is that it most certainly was not supposed to; Cecilia's screams immediately sounded like that "<a href="https://youtu.be/ee925OTFBCA?si=s8NzVt0U6AX4jEg5&t=13" rel="nofollow">best cry ever</a>" meme* to me, I couldn't help but smile, I'm sorry.
<em>*never knew the backstory to that clip until searching for it here, it's not quite so amusing now to be honest. awks.</em>
All in all, I'd narrowly class this as a film worth watching. I almost got to see it by myself in an empty cinema, though a group of two inexplicably arrived like 30-45 minutes into the 90 minutes! That's gotta hurt.
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