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Immaculate review: Sydney Sweeney’s pregnant nun horror doesn’t go bump in the night

Source: Fabio Lovino

Ecclesiastical-based horror Immaculate clearly wants to take a bold and principled stance on religious mania and the church’s attack on bodily autonomy. Its heroine Cecilia (Sydney Sweeney) arrives in Italy to join a convent, and take its vows of piety and celibacy, yet quickly discovers that she’s become pregnant – despite never having had sex.

She’s pushed to the edge,

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