Immaculate Budget

What is the budget of Immaculate?

"Immaculate," a horror released in 2024, was directed by Michael Mohan and stars Sydney Sweeney, Álvaro Morte. The production budget was $9,000,000, placing it in the low-budget range for horror productions of its era.

Key Budget Allocation Categories

While specific budget breakdowns are not publicly available, typical cost drivers for a horror production like this include:

• Practical Effects, Prosthetics & Makeup: Horror productions invest disproportionately in practical effects , prosthetic applications, animatronics, blood and gore effects, and creature suits. A single hero creature suit can cost $50,000 to 200,000.
• Atmospheric Production Design & Cinematography: Creating dread through environment is essential. Abandoned locations must be secured and dressed, lighting rigs designed for shadow and tension, and sets built to enable specific camera movements and reveals.
• Sound Design & Score: Horror is arguably the most sound-dependent genre. Foley work, ambient textures, frequency manipulation, and jump-scare stingers require specialized sound designers working with unconventional techniques.
• Production: Development on Immaculate was underway as early as 2014, when Sydney Sweeney first auditioned for a role in the film from a screenplay written by Andrew Lobel.

What were the major cost factors in Immaculate?

Several factors contributed to the overall production costs of "Immaculate."

• Practical Effects: Practical Effects, Prosthetics & Makeup is one of the primary cost drivers in horror productions of this scale.
• Atmospheric Production Design: Atmospheric Production Design & Cinematography is one of the primary cost drivers in horror productions of this scale.
• Sound Design: Sound Design & Score is one of the primary cost drivers in horror productions of this scale.

How Does Immaculate's Budget Compare to Similar Films?

At $9,000,000, Immaculate sits in the low-budget range. Here is how it compares to productions with a similar budget:

• Memento (2000): Budget $9,000,000, Worldwide Gross $40,060,108
• 3 Idiots (2009): Budget $9,000,000, Worldwide Gross $70,000,000
• There's Still Tomorrow (2023): Budget $9,000,000, Worldwide Gross $50,121,593
• Midsommar (2019): Budget $9,000,000, Worldwide Gross $48,498,408
• Manchester by the Sea (2016): Budget $9,000,000, Worldwide Gross $79,000,000

The median budget for wide-release horror films in the 2020s ranges from $30 to 80M for mid-budget to $150M+ for tentpoles.

Immaculate Box Office Performance

"Immaculate" earned $15,671,307 domestically and $35,340,015 worldwide at the box office. Against a production budget of $9,000,000, the film performed strongly at the box office.

A film typically needs to earn approximately twice its production budget to cover marketing and distribution costs. For "Immaculate," that break-even threshold was roughly $18,000,000. With worldwide earnings of $35,340,015, the film cleared that threshold comfortably.

• Production Budget: $9,000,000
• Worldwide Gross: $35,340,015
• Net Return: $26,340,015
• ROI: approximately 292.7%

At 292.7%, "Immaculate" earned roughly $3.93 for every $1 invested in production.

Awards and Recognition

8 nominations total

Critical Reception

Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "C" on an A+ to F scale, while those polled by PostTrak gave the film a 52% overall positive score, with 30% saying they would definitely recommend it. Manohla Dargis of The New York Times called the film a Critic's Pick, writing that the film "is a scare-fest with a plucky heroine, an irreverent hot-button twist and just enough narrative ambiguity to give viewers something to argue about."