The Asphyx

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?

Cast

Robert Powell

as Giles Cunningham

Robert Stephens

as Sir Hugo Cunningham

Jane Lapotaire

as Christina Cunningham

Alex Scott

as Sir Edward Barett

Ralph Arliss

as Clive Cunningham

Fiona Walker

as Anna Wheatley

Terry Scully

as Pauper

Tony Caunter

as Warden

Paul Bacon

as 1st Member

Reviews

Wuchak

_**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

"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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