Say what you want about the newly released horror shocker Immaculate, but it seems the studio promoting the film knows its audience. The Sydney Sweeney-led and produced Nunsploitation movie takes place in a dreary and disgusting convent, where Sweeney’s character soon finds herself pregnant despite never having had sex.
With a premise like that, naturally, Immaculate is drawing ire from Christian and conservative communities. The very end of the film in particular seems to be striking a nerve. Rather than issue any sort of statement or apology, Neon — the studio behind the project — has decided to lean in to the controversy as a part of their marketing strategy.
Over the weekend of the film’s release, several tweet reactions went viral decrying the anti-Christian nature of the film.
“Libs saw how the anti-woke crowd embraced Sydney Sweeney as their new darling and right away had to shove her in this blasphemous, satanic, feminist, pro-abortion, anti-life movie degrading Christians,” read one especially viral tweet. “This movie also debases Mary, mother of Christ!”
After one user said they needed to see the quote on a t-shirt, the official Neon account obliged:
Another viral review was used to create a poster that was shared to the official Neon and Immaculate accounts. “Diabolical, sacrilegious, pure evil & grossly offensive,” it read. “It is profane and has a third act that spits in the face of all that is holy. Just…evil.”
The caption for the post reads, “Christian Twitter has spoken.” A post shared to Neon’s Instagram Stories dubbed the film, “The most blasphemous you’ve ever seen.”
Another post highlights a quote from the film, “Pray for us sinners,” with the caption, “An unholy and unhinged feast of pure terror.”
Neon is also producing and sharing a video series featuring Sydney Sweeney reading passages from the Bible.
