Immortal

NR (yet), 89 minutes

Written by Jon Dabach

Segments Directed by: Tom Colley, Jon Dabach, Danny Isaacs, Rob Margolies

What if you couldn’t be killed?

That’s the question posed by this 2019 film written by John Dabach and directed by Tom Colley, Jon Dabach, Danny Isaacs, Rob Margolies.

What kind of person would you be if you couldn’t die? Could live forever?

What kind of person would you become, without the fear of death hanging over you?

This anthology features X segments, each detailing such a person and how they deal with their cirucumstances.

The film is composed of four segements, as follows:

Chelsea: a high school track star (Lindsay Mushett) is confronted and comforted by her English teacher (Dylan Baker) after he sees the track coach make unwanted advances to her.

She then finds herself kidnapped and taken to a forest in the middle of nowhere, only to be confronted by—

The end of the segment adds an unexpected flavor to the immortal’s viewpoint on “life.”

Gary & Vanesa: a young couple, expecting their first child, but one of them hides a secret. Gary(Brett Edwards) and Vanesa (Agnes Bruckner) are weeks away from welcoming their child, but money troubles have hit them.

They have a plan to alleviate their financial suffering, but it involves an act of desperation on the young father’s part.

And then…

Gruesome.

Ted & Mary: Ted (Tony Todd) and Mary (Robin Bartlett) are a long-married couple who welcome a film crew into their home to discuss the impending death of Mary, who has chosen suicide instead of a slow, lingering death by cancer.

This is a story of true love.

This is two GREAT performances.

Ugh. Heartbreaking.

Warren: Warren (Sam Levine) is struck by a car on his birthday, of all days, while talking on the phone to his mother, by a driver who flees the scene. After he revives and begins to heal from a broken neck and other blunt-force injures, he picks up the license plate of the car which struck him hard enough to come off.

Staggering home, still in a daze, he tries to call for help, only to pass out again. Finally waking, he finds himself completely healed, he tries to piece the last day back together. When he cuts his thumb while cooking, he discovers his ability to heal.

He begins to experiment with his ability in various ways, trying to figure out what is going on. He finds himself unable to eat or sleep–literally. He begins to remember the accident, and calls in an investigator to help him find the woman who was responsible.

Looking to profit from the well-to-do stature of the driver, he breaks in to the house and bugs it, listening to their conversations. Finally, he confronts her and her husband, and…

Nope; no spoilers.

Overall, the film is well-paced, well-shot, and well-acted. Tony Todd and Robin Bartlett are heartbreaking in their segment: some really outstanding performances there.

I wish their segment had been last instead of Warren.

While Warren book-ends nicely with Chelsea in terms of character, the emotional impact of Ted & Mary is really just so incredibly powerful that it seems a shame to have anything follow it.

Immortal premieres September 1 On Demand. Watch it, and ask yourself, “what kind of person would I be?”

My Grade: B+

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