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03/24/05
Altered States (1980)
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Reviews Counted:31
Fresh:27
Rotten:4
Average Rating:6.9/10
Consensus: Extraordinarily daring for a Hollywood film, Altered States attacks the viewer with its inventive, aggressive mix of muddled sound effects and visual pyrotechnics.
Runtime: 1 hr 43 mins
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
Synopsis: A psycho-physiologist doing experiments with human consciousness eventually decides to test his findings on himself. He becomes obsessed with performing these auto-sensory deprivation experiments... [More]
Starring: William Hurt, Blair Brown, Charles Haid, Bob Balaban
Director: Ken Russell
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10/31/02
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08/22/03
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12/08/06
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03/19/04
There isn't a lucid moment in it (and much of the dialogue is rendered unintelligible by Russell's subversive direction), but it has dash, style, and good looks, as well as the funniest curtain line since Some Like It Hot.
06/06/07
Top CriticAltered States explores the human drive to leave the body behind, to be born again, and to experience in the mind things that were once thought divine.
01/29/04
[Director] Russell's noisily grandiose swipe at psychedelia embellishes what is no more than the cosily familiar story of the obsessive Scientist Who Goes Too Far and Unwittingly Unleashes, etc.
06/24/06
See it for the hallucinogenic scenes: real-time acid flashbacks!
01/01/00
Altered States is much more a film of image and idea than narrative or character, but they're pretty compelling images and ideas, and Hurt is great.
11/07/02
Mind-blowing imagery, solid Hurt performance; a first-class freak-out
01/23/04
Dependably -- even exhilaratingly -- bizarre. Its strangeness, which borders cheerfully on the ridiculous, is its most enjoyable feature.
08/30/04
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02/03/03
trippy
03/18/05
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05/26/04
No simple description could ever manage to convey the sheer visual assault of the film. It's a movie that has to be seen, experienced.
01/01/00
Brilliantly made hallucinatory horrors from Ken Russell.
10/22/02
William Hurt at his weirdest
01/25/06
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09/23/05
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05/14/03
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