The supernatural thriller stars Geraldine Chaplin and is the first major screen appearance of her daughter, Oona.

Richard Stanley, one of the film's scriptwriters described the film as a "Sort of a neo-giallo taking off from Dario Argento's Four Flies on Grey Velvet by way of Umberto Lenzi's Spasmo and DaVinci Code.

[3] Bruno (Amarilla), a student at the rundown FW Murnau Film School comes across the thanatoscope, an ancient instrument of death.

The instrument, created by scientist Girolamo Fumagalli immortalises on a plate the last image seen by the victim’s retina.

The school's teachers, led by Countess Orsini (Geraldine Chaplin) are involved in a secretive plot concerning the instrument.