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Genres:
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Sci-Fi /
Horror /
Music
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Director:
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Peter Newbrook
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Actors:
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Alex Scott,
Ralph Arliss,
Fiona Walker,
John Lawrence,
Terry Scully,
David Grey,
Tony Caunter,
Robert Stephens,
Robert Powell,
Jane Lapotaire
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Duration:
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99 min.
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Rating:
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(6.2/10)96
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Plot Summary:
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A Victorian scientist and his mix discover the arcane of death: everybody has a kind of live "death will", the "asphyx"; when somebody is about to die, this "asphyx" comes in to claim his butt. If it can be caught at the right consequence, immortality follows! The scientist succeeds in capturing his own asphyx, but when he starts experimenting on his daughter, he accidentally kills her. The assistant, his daughter's fiance, commits suicide; the scientist, insufficient to die with them, tries to set his asphyx unhampered again, but has forgotten the cipher standards to the safely in which the ... spirit is kept. He is doomed to glowing forever ...
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The Asphyx
Released in the year that The Exorcist changed fright films forever, The Asphyx almost sank without a track. It's only at one's disposal again thanks to some original detective and restoration on the dole next to American DVD producers All Broad daylight Entertainment in the tardy 1990s. After watching the film, you might be forgiven for wondering why they went to all the irritation. Notwithstanding how, if you can see the (admittedly limited) tempt of low-budget, kitsch British gothic, and you're able to bolster up your interruption of disbelief against a scarcely any fairly vicious assaults, this is a pleasurable technique to pass an hour and a half. Sir Hugo Cunningham (Stephens) is a kind innkeeper and man of information with a terrible...
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