The Asphyx
If It Were In Your Power…Would You Sacrifice Your Wife…Your Children For Immortality? This Is The Story Of A Man Who Did!
Hugo is a brilliant turn-of-the-century scientist, loved and respected by his family and friends, admired by his colleagues. But he is a man quickly becoming obsessed with a curious and frightening question... what is the mysterious apparition found in the photographs of his dying subjects?
- 6.0
- 1972
- Released
- 1h 39m
Robert Powell
Giles Cunningham
Robert Stephens
Sir Hugo Cunningham
Jane Lapotaire
Christina Cunningham
Alex Scott
Sir Edward Barett
Ralph Arliss
Clive Cunningham
Fiona Walker
Anna Wheatley
Terry Scully
Pauper
Tony Caunter
WardenPaul Bacon
1st Member
Released
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- #experiment
- #supernatural
Reviews
"Sir Hugo" (Robert Stephens) is a much respected scientist in Victorian Britain fascinated by motion pictures. Whilst filming his friends punting on the river; they have a calamitous accident and die. What shows up on his photography afterwards intrigues him - it seems as though a mysterious form is taking over their dead bodies. Could this be the "The Asphyx" of ancient Greek myth? He and his son
_**Original, intelligent Hammer-esque horror from the early 70s**_ In 1875, a squire in England and his adopted son (Robert Stephens & Robert Powell) find a possible means of acquiring immortality by trapping the spirit of death, aka the mythological ‘asphyx’ or what we would call the Grim Reaper. Unfortunately, when people play God unforeseen negative things tend to happen. "The Asphyx" (19