Dames to eternal guilt and damned to eternal remorse, there's no escape for determined scientist Robert Stephens who has involved son Robert Powell in his experiments concerning a black figure that appears on the photos of people as they are dying. He refers to it as the Asphyx, and decide to try to capture it which results in nightmares for the entire family.
A weird romantic involvement has Powell engaged to his own step-sister, Jane Lapotaire, who suffers the most at the hands of the experiments, father and son in a strange way. This is a difficult film to describe because it is very complex, starting off in the present day, quickly moving to the past, and from there revealing why doesn't man who should have been brutally killed in a car accident, has survived. This is one of those films that all of a sudden a light goes off in the viewers head as they figure out what is going on.
As for the horrors seen onscreen, the viewer won't soon forget the scream that the white figure makes as it leaves a dead body and is pulled into the mechanisms created by Stevens to continue his experiments. It is as if the figure is realizing that their remaining Ora is being prevented from heading on to its next destination, and that will give the viewer a lot to think about. It's another example of how fiddling with the unknown can create evils that we could never imagine, and in this case, the evil isn't right on the surface, but Inside the mind. Call this the thinking man's horror film, and indeed, there will be many different theories as to what the film really is all about.
A weird romantic involvement has Powell engaged to his own step-sister, Jane Lapotaire, who suffers the most at the hands of the experiments, father and son in a strange way. This is a difficult film to describe because it is very complex, starting off in the present day, quickly moving to the past, and from there revealing why doesn't man who should have been brutally killed in a car accident, has survived. This is one of those films that all of a sudden a light goes off in the viewers head as they figure out what is going on.
As for the horrors seen onscreen, the viewer won't soon forget the scream that the white figure makes as it leaves a dead body and is pulled into the mechanisms created by Stevens to continue his experiments. It is as if the figure is realizing that their remaining Ora is being prevented from heading on to its next destination, and that will give the viewer a lot to think about. It's another example of how fiddling with the unknown can create evils that we could never imagine, and in this case, the evil isn't right on the surface, but Inside the mind. Call this the thinking man's horror film, and indeed, there will be many different theories as to what the film really is all about.