William Hurt
Professor Eddie Jessup
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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.
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.
- (39K)
- Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
- Ken Russell
- 1980-12-25
A movie about a scientist who takes a drug and regresses to a simian state, while his wife tries to save him. Roger Ebert praises the visual and verbal excess, the special effects, and the love story, but questions the meaning and the dialogue.
Respected scientist and psychology professor Edward Jessup (William Hurt) decides to combine his experiments in sensory deprivation tanks with powerful hallucinogenic drugs,...
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- Ken Russell
- R
- William Hurt
Altered States is a 1980 American science-fiction horror film directed by Ken Russell based on the novel of the same name by playwright and screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky. The film was...
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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. 1,840 IMDb 6.9 1 h 42 min 1980. X-Ray R. Drama · Science Fiction · Dreamlike · Philosophical. Available to rent or buy.
