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Immaculate (Mohan 2024)
Marshall Smith, PhD, and Laura Patterson, PhD, offer a sociological discussion of the 2024 film Immaculate. This presents as a pretty typical possession film. However, we found it proved to be much more. It offers powerful representation of women and pregnancy so rarely seen in horror. It also offers significant commentary about conservative religious hypocrisy and misogyny. Perhaps we should not have been skeptical, but we were defnitely very pleasantly suprised with how good this movie is! Especially if you are a horror fan, the film stands out in how it contributes to the genre.
This is really a twin film to The First Omen, so we strongly recommend you watch that film, and listen to our episode, as well.
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SPOILERS IN THIS EPISODE
Immaculate, this film
THIS EPISODE IS REPLETE WITH COMPARISONS TO THE FIRST OMEN, INCLUDING SPOILERS
TOPIC INDEX – Immaculate (Mohan 2024) (times are approximate)
0:30 – Introductions
2:45 – Film discussion begins
3:00 – overall thoughts on the film
5:30 – SPOILERS section begins
5:45 – twin films
7:00 – resists glamorization of violence against women
15:00 – cloning Jesus
21:00 – production design and camera work reinforcing the message
31:00 – what’s up with the baby
44:00 – comparative success of Immaculate and First Omen
46:00 – significance of ice
47:00 – nun horror to avoid priest pedophile issue
58:00 – grading the film using the Collective Nightmares Evolving Rubric of Social Responsibility
1:01:00 – phantasms
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The First Omen (Stevenson 2024)
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