[Updated with sound issues corrected.]

I don't often drop a lot of names when talking about films but in the case of Stefano Bessoni's Imago Mortis - a film we began writing about in these pages two years ago, now, when the first production sketches appeared - it's got such a crazy-impressive pedigree that it'd be foolish not to. Ready? Here we go: An early draft of the script wa written by Dust Devil director Richard Stanley. It shares producers with Pan's Labyrinth and The Orphanage. And the final draft of the shooting script? That's by Luis Berdejo, who is currently in post production on his own feature directorial debut - The New Daughter, with Kevin Costner - and also wrote a little Spanish zombie film you may have heard of called [REC]. You know, only the most successful European horror film of the last few years. So names, this has got. And now it has a brand spanking new trailer and television spot.

The film tracks a young man, living in the aftermath of tragedy, who runs afoul of a bizarre cult operating within the faculty of his university, a cult practicing a sort of retinal photography to try and capture a photograph of the human soul. Of course, to photograph a soul leaving a body you first need to know when the soul will leave and the easiest way to accomplish that is to help it on its way ...

One note before passing you on to the trailer. This was produced in advance of the Italian theatrical release and features an Italian dub of the dialogue - the film itself shot in a blend of languages, dominantly English. So if the dialogue seems a bit off that it not necessarily reflective of the film that we will eventually see on these shores. Check both the trailer and TV spot below the break!