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The Asphyx

PG
Movie
1972
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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6.1
IMDB
The Asphyx (1972) on IMDb
CRITIC SCORE
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
1st Member
Directed By: Peter Newbrook
Written By: Brian Comport (Screenplay)

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TvWatcha3 says...
4 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
one year 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
3 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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