A Victorian scientist works to entrap the mythical "ASPHYX" a spirit engorged in agony; forever condemned to screech and wail until it finds another human body to take. After realising that trapping it will lead to immortality before the clutches of death; he pushes his experiments to the extreme in order to control life. With harrowing and very, very deeply disturbing scenes and consequences. Be warned. yep. I know what you want to think; maybe Christopher Lee dancing round in a woman's wig get's your freak on; your horror movie penchant.No. Sadly not. I saw this movie a while ago and had no idea what it was: i only knew that it had the word asphyx in and now; about five years after seeing the movie i am reminded about how engaging it was; but it has serial scary moments. Whereas the likes of the Exorcist and Halloween exercise subtlety with scary points; this well made BRITPIC serves you a colourful rendition of the screeching banshee phantom with the more underlying tone of immortality at a price; it's sometimes painful to watch not because it's bad but because it's good. Very good; consider this a 70's Brit Horror B movie/ a little gem which i don't think has been touched upon by Hollywood yet. It's not Body-Horror like the Thing but rather the condition of the human spirit/ tragedy/ death; which are played to the extremes. The very minutely close shave extremes in some cases. Masterful storytelling combined with sheer perverted black comedy and some proper man's horror, this movie may well stay with you for the rest of eternity.
Review of The Asphyx
