Sydney Sweeney’s religious horror movie Immaculate is very similar to Rosemary’s Baby — but it crosses the one line that Rosemary’s Baby refused to cross. Immaculate, much like Rosemary’s Baby, revolves around an unfortunate young woman being targeted by a Satanic cult and impregnated with the Antichrist. Whereas Rosemary’s Baby revolves around an unsuspecting tenant living in a creepy old New York apartment building harboring some very dark secrets, Immaculate revolves around a young nun staying at a beautiful Italian convent harboring some very dark secrets.
Both Sweeney’s Sister Cecilia and Mia Farrow’s Rosemary Woodhouse come to suspect that their unborn child is something unholy that Devil worshipers want to get their hands on. Both Rosemary’s Baby and Immaculate build to a thrilling climactic sequence in which the cult comes for the protagonist’s baby and she desperately tries to fend them off. But the ending of Rosemary’s Baby stopped short of crossing one truly horrifying line, and Immaculate goes beyond that line for a deeply unsettling final scene.
Sydney Sweeney's Immaculate Has The Ending Rosemary's Baby Shied Away From
Rosemary Couldn't Go Through With Killing Her Baby
In the final scene of Rosemary’s Baby, Rosemary finds the hidden passageway that allowed the cult to get into her apartment and take her baby. She’s horrified to find the cultists having a party to celebrate the birth of their savior, the Antichrist. She approaches the crib and sees that her offspring is an ungodly demonic monstrosity with Satan’s eyes. As she stands over the crib with a knife, Rosemary contemplates killing her baby, but she ultimately can’t bring herself to do it.
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The ending of Immaculate goes one step further and has Sister Cecilia actually kill her unholy baby. After escaping from the convent, Cecilia looks down at her baby, disgusted by his animalistic gurgling sounds. After some hesitation, she picks up a big rock and does what Rosemary couldn’t do — she beats her Satanic offspring to death. Rosemary’s Baby is a really terrifying movie that crosses just about every line imaginable (the impregnation scene alone is enough to give anyone nightmares), but that’s one line it would not cross.
Immaculate's Ending Elevates A Decent Horror Movie To A Great One
A Great Ending Goes A Long Way Towards Making A Great Movie
For the most part, Immaculate is a pretty mediocre horror movie. Its Antichrist pregnancy storyline isn’t very original (and Rosemary’s Baby knockoffs are a dime a dozen these days) and it relies too much on gratuitous bone-breaking gore and cheap violin-screech jump scares to be a true masterpiece of the genre. But a great ending goes a long way towards making a great movie. The ending of Immaculate is so shocking and so unexpected that it elevates a decent horror film to a pretty great one.
Immaculate is a 2024 horror film directed by Michael Mohan and stars Sydney Sweeney. When a devout woman named Cecilia is offered a position at a prestigious convent in Italy, she takes it with little hesitation. However, Cecilia's world is turned upside down when she discovers the terrible secrets hidden within her new place of faith.
Director michael mohan
Writers Andrew Lobel
Runtime 89 minutes
Directed by Roman Polanski and starring Mia Farrow, Rosemary's Baby chronicles the chilling tale of Rosemary Woodhouse, the wife of an actor who, after finding out she is pregnant, begins to suspect that her unborn child is something far more sinister than a normal baby. John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon, Sidney Blackmer, and Maurice Evans also star.
Director Roman Polanski
Writers Roman Polanski
Cast Ralph Bellamy , Mia Farrow , Sidney Blackmer , Ruth Gordon , John Cassavetes
Runtime 137 minutes
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