Blood on Méliès' Moon

Blood on Méliès' Moon

2016 · 125 min · ★ 5.1 · Horror, Mystery

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. What if they had stolen Le Prince’s idea and wacked him afterwards? The mystery remains for more than a century, until Luigi Cozzi picks up a strange book called “The Roaming Universe” in the horror museum of his pal Dario Argento. The origin of this enigmatic book troubles him. This particular science-fiction novel would have materialized during a spiritual session in modern day Rome. At the session, an old woman revealed that the key to all these mysteries comes from 1895, a time during which the Lumière Brothers had denied lending their camera to Georges Méliès for an obscure movie called "A Trip to the moon". Not only does this film actually exist, but it raises a more intriguing question. Is our world the only one, or are there parallel universes ?

Directed by Luigi Cozzi · Written by Giulio Leoni

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Luigi Cozzi Luigi Cozzi
Brahim Ahmadouche Gormak
Sharon Alessandri
Dario Argento Self
Lamberto Bava Lamberto Bava
Philippe Beun-Garbe Prof. Pierpoljakos
Fabio Giovannini Fabio Giovannini
Barbara Magnolfi Barbara
Luigi Pastore
Alessia Patregnani
Antonio Tentori Antonio Tentori
David Kirk Traylor George Méliès

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