Immortality is Sam Barlow’s first return to the horror genre since Silent Hill: Shattered Memories in 2009. In this game, players get to explore a treasure trove of newly discovered footage from the three lost movies of Marissa Marcel. By using a magical new mechanic – the ability to ‘match cut’ from a visual at any point in a piece of footage  – players navigate via cinematic language to dig up the secrets beneath the surface.

Written with Allan Scott (Don’t Look Now, Queen’s Gambit), Amelia Gray (Mr. Robot, Maniac) and Barry Gifford (Wild at Heart, Lost Highway), IMMORTALITY is a boldly ambitious attempt to deconstruct cinema whilst riffing on the mechanics of Pokémon Snap. Barlow’s goal has been to create a game as messy and personal, as wild and unconstrained as his favorite movies and books. 

Marissa Marcel was a film star. She made three movies. But none of the movies was ever released. And Marissa Marcel disappeared.

1968

Alan Fischer directs Ambrosio his adaptation of M. G. Lewis’s notorious Gothic novel The Monk. He casts unknown Marissa Marcel as the infamous Matilda.

1970

John Durick writes his thriller Minsky with Marcel in mind. Set in New York City, the movie concerns the death of a famous artist and Marissa stars as the muse suspected of murdering him.

The PlayStation 5 edition of Immortality restores all three of Marissa Marcel’s lost movies and their hours of footage, with new haptic and controller speaker features to bring to life the game's virtual moviola. For true cinephiles, the game includes a Platinum Trophy.

“From the inception of this project, the goal has been sharing Marissa Marcel’s life and work with as large an audience as possible," says IMMORTALITY director, Sam Barlow. "So I am thrilled to bring IMMORTALITY to PlayStation gamers and bring them face to face with a lost legend."

1999

For his swansong, Durick teams up with Marcel again as she returns from a lengthy hiatus. The movie Two of Everything is a subversive thriller which explores the duality between a successful pop star and her body double.

None of these movies is ever released. They are thought to be lost or destroyed.

2022

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Currently available for PC (Steam) And Xbox, Immortality is coming to PS5 on January 23, 2024 at $19.99