France, 1890. Inventor Louis Le Prince vanishes under mysterious circumstances right after he created a device that, five years later, the Lumière Brothers will call The Cinematographer.

When an obsessive fan's visit triggers a brutal murder in Luigi's Profondo Rosso store/museum, Cozzi's phantasmagoric freakout will include vanished inventors, alternate dimensions, cursed books, lost films, bizarre pajamas and his own reputation as 'the Italian Ed Wood', with appearances by Lamberto Bava, Barbara Magnolfi (SUSPIRIA), screenwriter Antonio Tentori (CAT IN THE BRAIN), best-selling author Giulio Leoni and Dario Argento.—Severin Films

France, 16 September 1890. Having patented a sophisticated device for capturing and projecting moving images on a screen, innovative French artist Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince disappears under mysterious circumstances. Then, on 13 February 1895, Auguste Lumière and his brother, Louis Lumière, patented their version of Louis' invention, the original Cinématographe. A few centuries later, in modern-day Rome, Italian film director and screenwriter Luigi Cozzi encounters a peculiar visitor in Dario Argento' iconic horror museum, Profondo Rosso. The stranger reveals a deadly conspiracy threatening our world. As powerful dark forces from unfathomable parallel universes endanger humankind, the answers Luigi seeks lie hidden in the inimitable French illusionist Georges Méliès' sci-fi extravaganza, Le voyage dans la lune (1902). But if alternate realities exist, what happens if one of them crumbles into pieces?—Nick Riganas