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Dec 25, 1980 · Altered States: Directed by Ken Russell. With William Hurt, Blair Brown, Bob Balaban, Charles Haid. A psycho-physiologist experiments with drugs and a sensory-deprivation tank and has visions he believes are genetic memories.
Altered States is a 1980 American science fiction horror film directed by Ken Russell and adapted by playwright and screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky from his 1978 novel of the same name.
In “Altered States,” William Hurt plays a Harvard scientist named Jessup who takes such an experiment one step further, by ingesting a drug made from the sacred hallucinatory mushrooms of a primitive tribe.
Respected scientist and psychology professor Edward Jessup (William Hurt) decides to combine his experiments in sensory deprivation tanks with powerful hallucinogenic drugs, convinced that it may...
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Respected scientist and psychology professor Edward Jessup decides to combine his experiments in sensory deprivation tanks with powerful hallucinogenic drugs, convinced it may help him unlock different states of consciousness.
A Harvard scientist conducts experiments on himself with a hallucinatory drug and an isolation chamber that may be causing him to regress genetically. 1,846 IMDb 6.9 1 h 42 min 1980. X-Ray R. Drama · Science Fiction · Dreamlike · Philosophical. Available to rent or buy.
Altered States follows Harvard Professor Edward Jessup as he explores the outer limits of the psychedelic realm and goes boldly where no other psychedelic explorer has gone.
A research scientist explores the boundaries and frontiers of consciousness. Using sensory deprivation and hallucinogenic mixtures from native American shamans, he explores these altered states of consciousness and finds that memory, time, and perhaps reality itself are states of mind.
Altered States - Apple TV. Respected scientist and psychology professor Edward Jessup (William Hurt) decides to combine his experiments in sensory deprivation tanks with powerful hallucinogenic drugs, convinced that it may help him unlock different states of consciousness.
A professor in abnormal psychology who is studying schizophrenia develops a theory that other states of consciousness are as real as the waking state. He begins experimenting using sensory-deprivation and drugs on himself.
