| Director |
Peter
Newbrook |
| Cast |
Robert
Stephens, Robert Powell, Jean Lapotaire |
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Sir
Hugo Cunningham is a filantropist, researcher of the psychic phenomena.
He has discovered in many pictures the mytical spirit of the death, the
Asphyx. That's how he now is planning to catch his own Asphyx in order
to be immortal. But when he tries to catch his family's Asphyx and
plays with the forces of the life and death, he's overwhelmed by the
ambition of power and eternal life. This ambition will make him lose
everything he loves.
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In
this film I feel sympathy for Giles, who has to be between the love he
feels for Christina and the support he dues to his adoptive father with
his strange experiments.
The
methods to catch the Asphyx reminds me of the ghostbusters... but this
is much better!
And,
do you know why I loved this film? Think... have you ever seen strange
blurs in a photo? have you ever met someone who swears that blur has
the shape of someone who's died? After all, the idea is exellent and in
this film it was well taken.
Another
interesting thing is the paradoxe that at the begining of the film Sir
Hugo is against the death penalty, but he agrees to take pictures of a
hanged in search of his Asphyx. Also he uses all the ways known to
execute: the electric chair, the guillotin and the gas chamber.
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