Pop Ninja's 31 Days of Horror

Day #5: October 5, 2021

'The Asphyx' (1972)

For the 5th day of the 31 Days of Horror challenge, I watched the very strange '70s horror film 'The Asphyx'.

It stars Robert Powell, Robert Stephens, and Jane Lapotaire.

The film kept my interest and had some ok effects for the early 70s. It's about a scientist who discovers an Asphyx in a photograph of someone dying.  An Asphyx is an ancient Egyptian spirit that comes for you when you die, or something like that. This scientist discovers it and spends the rest of the movie obsessed with catching it. He thinks that if he can catch it he will become immortal.

Bizarre, but well written story.


- Patrick

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  1. BriarRoseOctober 6, 2021 at 11:04 AM

    I thought it was "A Sphyx" Like the one pyramid in Egypt. :)

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