The Asphyx

The Asphyx
5.9

The Asphyx

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Directed by: Peter Newbrook

Overview

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?

The Asphyx

Reviews (2)

  • Wuchak (Rated: 6)

    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...

  • CinemaSerf (Rated: 6)

    "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...

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