Immaculate (2024) Review | I actually went to the theatre
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- Опубліковано 1 лип 2024
- Special thanks to @mudstyle5288 for requesting that I watch and review this! The trailer was so good I had to. I hope you guys like this review, I feel like I was all over the place. Maybe I reviewed it too soon after watching, idk. Anyway, this is long, and it’s almost like I made it for people who have already seen the movie unfortunately, so I hope if you haven’t seen it that you don’t feel out of the loop! Anyway, I tried my best! 😊
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00:00 Intro
00:49 Trailers
01:40 Description
02:27 Characters
03:18 Visuals
04:41 Sound
05:27 Homages
06:32 Mood/Tone
07:44 Elements
09:06 Pace
10:06 Story
11:23 Elevated Horror
13:01 Overall Thoughts
14:44 Spoiler Section - Розваги
"I'm delivering"... I see what you did there!
Thanks for the review. The way you structured it was excellent. I will likely never watch this movie, so I stuck around to the end. This movie reminds me of the Whatever Happened to Solange.
Yay!! I'm glad you enjoyed, thank you.
The part one that Giallo theme came in is why I kept me from leaving. It was the closest thing we have to modern Italian horror is got the Gothic Romantic beauty of Mario Bava, the school, core girl dorm theme, that we see in Susperia and phenomena by Argento. The gran Gore. Of and critique of the Catholic Church of Lucio Fulci
that's a fantastically relevant analysis! there are some great intersections with the Italian/exploitation film community for sure.
And you’re right this is a lot like the house that screamed particularly without one chick that tried to drown Sweeney
You should check out The Yakuza.
Directed by Sydney Pollack
Cool.
Thanks for sharing.
Sweeney Todd was great in this, I hope she does more Horror, Great Review, very very cool 👍
Love The house that screamed. A top 60's movie for me. Just got done rewatching another 60's horror film for the second time, actually. I watched it last year, this time around really liked it a lot more.
Personally, I dislike it when movies STEAL the soundtracks off other movies. Just make your own damn soundtrack! That's my view.
My view on "elevated horror" is basically "I've never ever used that phrase and never will" and "every horror movie is elevated. Damn near every MOVIE is elevated." it''s a totally snobbish useless phrase. Friday the 13th part 5, the black sheep of the franchise. It's my favorite and it's pretty blatantly obvious to me that it's a movie about mental illness. That is the theme through out the entire movie. I mean, two of my favorite early 90's movies Cemetary man and Jacob's ladder, would those be considered "elevated horror?" They live from 1988, would that be an "elevated horror" movie? I can mention a ton more. Dawn of the dead, Dead heat, Death becomes her, Driller killer,lol. All movies that begin with the letter D, that was totally random.
I've been complaining about mainstream horror since the 2000's. Post Scream in 96 horror basically became Dawson's creek. Pretty boys. Glossy. it totally negated, diverged from it's exploitative roots. We started getting Busta Rhymes and Britney Murphy wannabes and Jason Mewes wannabes. More PG13 horror and this wasn't the PG13 from the 80's or early 90's which was pretty risque. A lot of PG13 horror in the 80's and 90's had nudity. Critters 2 for instance, that is a PG13 horror movie and it has some gore and nudity in it.
When House of 1000 corpses came out in the 2000's, I kind of celebrated as a horror fan. Thanking Rob Zombie for bring back the horror genre to it's exploitation roots.
"I was like 'How come all these horror movies have to be so moralistic now"
BECAUSE IT'S THE 2020'S; post SJW "woke", and the last dying breathe of the religious right/right wing/evangelicals. Nothing can be ARTS SAKE anymore. EVERYTHING HAS TO BE META. And the commentary has to drive the story and this sure as hell ain't just horror movies but movies in general. I watched the movie Barbie in February of this year. Wanted to be in on the whole "Barbenheimer" thing. So I watched both movies. I preferred Oppenheimer and I feel like "As a history buff I should of LOVED this movie" but damn it, it had to be filmed by Christopher Nolan and I am not a fan of Nolan. Both movies 100% perfectly ilistrated this issue I have with a lot of modern cinema. Barbie, far more then Oppenheimer was "commentary over EVERYTHING." Barbie was pure 100% a blatant EXCUSE for commentary. Now people might ask "Well, what did you want then Jay? What did you expect?" A F**KING BARBIE MOVIE. NOT "commentary the movie"!!!!!! Seriously, THERE IS NO STORY, PLOT, OR CHARACTERS in Barbie. I love John Carpenter's movie They live, that is full of commentary and politics...BUT IT'S A STORY AND CHARACTERS FIRST. It's a scifi/horror/action film first and foremost. I'm a big fan of Quantum leap. One of my all time favorite shows ever and that show is full of commentary. Full of it and I love it, but again, it's about the CHARACTERS and the STORY. Oppenheimer, was not so much 'commentary over story/plot/characters" but "EVERYBODY IS STUPID. NOBODY IS GONNA GET IT. THE AUDIENCE IS THE LOWEST COMMON DENOMINATOR." To quote a film critic about both movies.
Barbie: "Ironically by putting the COMMENTARY IN THE MAIN FOCUS instead of the characters [and I would add story and plot] strangely feels more like people becoming dolls because they become MOUTH PIECES for the writer and director to get across stuff that, honestly you could just get across with a couple funny tweets. This truly is a movie where the commentary is leading the characters. Not the characters leading the commentary."
Oppenheimer: "He over explains things. He does the job of what WE ARE SUPPOSE TO DO. What MOVIES CRITICS ARE SUPPOSE TO DO AND TALKS ABOUT THE LAYERS AND THE ETHICAL DILEMMAS AND THE CHOICES THE CHARACTER HAS TO MAKE OR THE STRUCTURE OF A STORY AND EVERYTHING AND IT'S LIKE....THE CHARACTERS SHOULDN'T DO THAT. WE SHOULD DO THAT."
And my entire point and view is "WHAT IS THE POINT THEN?!" if your movie is nothing BUT commentary and or your gonna just sit there and EXPLAIN everything that is happening in the movie - WHAT IS THE F**KING POINT?! That is BORING as f**k. My point is "Put all the subtext and commentary you want in a movie BUT THAT SHOULDN'T BE THE F**KING FOCUS and the entire point of the movie." and the film shouldn't be RUINING the movie by telling you what it's about.
And to quote another critic about the Mortal Kombat remake
Critic: It has the blood; careful what you wish for because they gave me the blood but took away EVERYTHING ELSE that was special about the movie. Yes, they did!
Second critic: Naw, this is FAN SERVICE. This is fan service where they actually listened to the fans for once and your upset -
Critic: Oh ya, they gave me the fan service. You know what they FORGOT to do though? NO, THEY FORGOT TO MAKE A MOVIE THOUGH. THEY FORGOT TO MAKE A MOVIE OUT OF IT!
I actually kind of want to see Abigail.
You made a Cannibal Corpse joke,lol.
Their first album is total garbage. Terrible terrible album. Their second album all the way up to The wretched Spawn is great. Their album Kill and all their stuff after that feels far to....clean, over produced, and lacks the awesome flow of their earlier music. Yet 99% of all Cannibal Corpse fans love Kill and their recent stuff. I just don't get it.
I know there's soooo much to discuss here but I feel the need especially to agree with you on the last paragraph. something about overproduced death metal is just....wrong.
I love your take on elevated horror and horror that isn't fun to watch but is there to "teach a lesson" or "make us cry". I even loved it as someone who considers elevated horror my favorite genre. It inspired me to look beyond this genre because wow I didn't realize how true what you said is. It is very serious and un-fun as a genre. I need to stop being so edgy all the time and venture into other genres of horror. The moralistic elements that you're laughing about are absolutely in this movie (I haven't watched it but obviously I can tell from your reiteration). The killing done by nuns is still moralistic because they're going against something that is violating women's rights. That's obsession with right and wrong which isn't exactly a fun time hahaha. Thanks for the wake up call, in short.🤣
Oh my gosh, wow, I really enjoyed reading your comment! I'm glad what I was trying to say made sense. However, no shade to the lovers of elevated horror. I totally understand why filmmakers want to create innovative horror with depth, why they want to do something different and something that has meaning. But I tend to prefer shallow, cheesy trash! haha.
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Not a horror movie, Story of a Cloistered Nun (1973) is far and away the classiest of the four films in Severin's Italian Nunsploitation box set, and the one that really surprised me. Everything is good. It grabs you from the first scene. The writing, story, everything is strong, including a cast featuring some familiar faces from the giallo top shelf, like Catherine Spaak killing it as the cool/bad one, but special notice for Suzy Kendall as the mother superior. I thought she was miscast at first, but she pulls out a performance I never imagined she had in her. All the characters have way more dimension and humanity by the end of the movie than you would expect. The exploitation elements are present and accounted for, but not at all lingering or gratuitous, I'd even call this movie tasteful, but that's in context of a set that contains the longest known cut of Joe D'Amato's filthy sleaze-wallow Images in a Convent (1979), so... maybe don't watch it with your mom, but by nunsploitation standards this is tame, but that's not a bad thing. The ending rips off a famous Kubrick film moment, but it works. I'm recommending because I'm pretty sure you've luvved on Suzy Kendall in the past, and this is just a whole other unexpected side of her, and she's dang good. Everyone's good in this. I was happily pleased.
I've actually watched Story of a Cloistered nun because someone recommended it to me maybe a year or two ago! I quite enjoyed it. Eleonora Giorgi and Suzy Kendall?! Awesome. It was super classy, like you said!
@@KatieoftheNight Just curious, have you seen Fulci's The Psychic? Very subdued (despite a grisly opening that quotes the climax of Don't Torture a Duckling - another great one) but effective story-driven giallo, just before Fulci blew up as a legendary gore-meister. I mention it because it's another one that swims on its own without leaning on its exploitable elements. The Psychic is as different from The New York Ripper as it could possibly be, but of the five great practitioners of the genre, all of Fulci's giallo efforts have a pleasing variety.
@@bayrum9803 I did see the Psychic! It didn't appeal to me as much as other gialli and other works of Fulci, but i remember liking it just fine. I saw it earlier on in my giallo journey though, so it does deserve a revisit!
Also, based on some of your likes like The House That Screamed, I think you might appreciate the great, stylistically unique, hysteria-fueled Mexican gothic horror barn-burner (or convent-burner, by the exciting nuns-spontaneously-combusting-everywhere-as-all-Hell-breaks-loose climax), Alucarda (1977). Just don't have a hangover when you watch it. You'll know why. The dominant theme is HYSTERIA. (The nuns' habits are all weirdly reminiscent of I won't say what, but the symbolism is clear and the look is unique,) This is a love or hate one for some people. I think it's made of awesome. Satanic orgies? I'm in. I also love it when the girls start praying out loud to Satan in Catechism and everyone loses their sh!t. There's lots of everyone losing their sh!t scenes. There's one nun who prays so hard she SWEATS BLOOD and LEVITATES. The movie is loaded. It occupies a special place in my heart. Your mileage may vary but... spontaneously combusting nuns.
OMG I keep meaning to watch Alucarda!! It sounds awesome. You're making it sound even more awesome.