Summary: Sydney Sweeney, the star of Immaculate - a horror film exploring the theme of immaculate conception - explains why she believes the genre knows no boundaries.
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00:00 [thunder]
00:03 In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
00:06 Amen.
00:07 [dramatic music]
00:11 There's something about horror films that I love
00:13 because there's no boundaries or limits to what a character can do,
00:19 what a story can do, and the elements within a story.
00:23 Like, you can--there's no questioning of why did the door just randomly slam open.
00:28 Like, you can play with the world, you can play with the sensory and the psychological nature of an entire world.
00:34 And I love that you're not limited in a horror genre space.
00:38 It's a miracle.
00:41 [thunder]
00:43 You are with child.
00:44 [dramatic music]
00:48 That's what really drew me to Immaculate to begin with,
00:51 was that a lot of the horrors and the fears, especially for Cecilia, were grounded in reality.
00:58 Where I think that it's going to be a discussion and up for debate of how people perceive this film,
01:06 and they're like, "Oh, it is supernatural. Oh, no, it's mankind."
01:11 And just kind of play with what they think the message of the film is.