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The Asphyx

Movie
1973
1h 39m
English
Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction
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?
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62

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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
Paul Bacon
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Directed By: Peter Newbrook
Written By: Brian Comport (Screenplay)

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TvWatcha3 says...
3 years ago
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3 Thoughts After Watching ‘The Asphyx’: 1. I had no clue what to expect going in, and found it to be a fairly original and different concept, executed rather well. 2. WHY would they ever choose a guillotine? 3. I appreciated the solid acting, the special effects for the time, and the abrupt-yet-full-circle ending.
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CinemaSerf
8 months ago
"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 More
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Wuchak
2 years ago
_**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 Re More
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