Director: Eddie Alcazar
A billionaire chasing eternal life becomes the unwitting subject of an experiment far stranger than anything his own labs ever produced in Divinity, a black-and-white science-fiction fever dream from 2023.
What is Divinity about?
An aging mogul has spent a fortune trying to outrun death, funding research into a serum that promises something close to immortality. Two brothers with their own agenda intercept him, pulling him into captivity and forcing him to confront the cost of the very science he bankrolled. As his body and mind are pushed through changes he never signed up for, a woman drawn into the brothers' orbit begins nudging events toward something closer to reckoning than rescue. What starts as an abduction thriller slides into surreal, body-altering territory, with the film using stark monochrome images and sudden bursts of color to mark the line between the mogul's old reality and whatever he is becoming. The result plays less like a conventional plot and more like an extended, unsettling vision of what immortality might actually cost a person's identity.
Cast & crew
Stephen Dorff plays the immortality-obsessed mogul with a mix of arrogance and mounting panic as control slips away from him. Moisés Arias and Jason Genao play the brothers who orchestrate his captivity, while Bella Thorne appears as the enigmatic woman steering the story's stranger turns. Scott Bakula rounds out the ensemble in a supporting role that adds another layer to the mogul's fractured world.
Context & significance
Director Eddie Alcazar shot Divinity largely in black and white, a choice that leans into the film's roots in body horror and experimental science fiction rather than conventional thriller mechanics. At a tight 87 minutes, the film moves quickly between hallucinatory sequences, giving it more in common with midnight-movie surrealism than a straightforward monster-lab story.
Where & how to watch
Divinity is available on K-Time with a free account login, dubbed and subtitled in Persian so Farsi-speaking audiences can follow its stranger turns without losing the film's disorienting rhythm, part of K-Time's growing selection of genre and science-fiction titles for the Iranian diaspora.