He Never Died
All actors and roles (10)
All team (32)
Short description
Jack is an immortal who has lived for thousands of years, and the weight of that time has left him depressed and detached from the people around him. He buys blood stolen from hospitals by medical workers, plays bingo, sleeps fourteen hours a day, watches television for six hours, and keeps to himself. That routine is interrupted when Andrea, the nineteen-year-old daughter he never knew, arrives at his door wanting to know her father. Their reunion is cut short when criminals take her, and Jack is forced to fall back on skills he has spent centuries trying to leave behind.
He Never Died is a Canadian-American comedy, drama, fantasy, horror and thriller released in 2015, written and directed by Jason Krawczyk. It is his first feature, followed in 2024 by Don't Mess with Grandma. Henry Rollins plays Jack, with Booboo Stewart as Jeremy, Kate Greenhouse as Cara, Jordan Todosey as Andrea, David Richmond-Peck as Steve and James Cade as Short, among a credited cast of 34.
On TMDB the film holds a rating of 6.2 out of 10 from 539 votes, while a smaller group of critics gives it 6.9 out of 10 from 17 reviews. The two scores sit close together, suggesting that reviewers and audiences responded to it in broadly similar terms.
What's left behind the scenes
- Jack wears a coat from the American brand American Eagle.
- Towards the end, Cain mentions his numerous victims in Wallachia. This is a clear hint that he was also known as the Prince of Wallachia or, at least, was associated with Count Dracula.
- For his role in the film, Henry Rollins had to conceal his large sun tattoo.
- In one scene, Jack takes out an ancient knife and reads the inscription on it: "Legi convictio scientia veritate," which means "Knowledge of the law, confidence in righteousness."
- On the poster, Jack is depicted with wings, but in the film, he has scars in their place. If we turn not to the biblical story, but to mythology, the presence of rudimentary wings can be explained by the fact that Cain (Jack) could have been the son of a fallen angel and Eve. Cain was doomed to eternal wandering, in other words, he could well have been deprived of his wings as punishment for fratricide.
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