Altered States

Name: Altered States
Genre: Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller
Released: 1980-12-25
Duration: 103 min
Rating: 6.717

★ 6,7 /10 (779 Votes)

1980 EN 103 min

Overview

A research scientist explores the boundaries and frontiers of human consciousness. Using sensory deprivation and hallucinogenic mixtures from Native American shamans, he explores these altered states of cognizance and finds that memory, time, and reality itself are states of mind.

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Release date

25/12/1980

Votes

779

Popularity

4.4

In the basement of a university medical school, Dr. Jessup floats naked in total darkness. The most terrifying experiment in the history of science is out of control... and the subject is himself.

Genres

Horror Science Fiction Thriller

Status

Released

Language

Runtime

103 min

Budget

$15,000,000

Revenue

$19,853,892

William Hurt

Professor Eddie Jessup

Blair Brown

Emily Jessup

Bob Balaban

Arthur Rosenberg

Charles Haid

Mason Parrish

Thaao Penghlis

Echeverria

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Miguel Godreau

Primal Man

Dori Brenner

Sylvia Rosenberg

Peter Brandon

Hobart

Charles White-Eagle

The Brujo

Drew Barrymore

Margaret Jessup

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Megan Jeffers

Grace Jessup

Jack Murdock

Hector Orteco

Francis X. McCarthy

Obispo

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Deborah Baltzell

Schizophrenic Patient

Evan Richards

Young Rosenberg

Paul Larsson

Charlie Thomas

John Larroquette

X-Ray Technician

George Gaynes

Dr. Wissenschaft

Hap Lawrence

Endocrinology Fellow

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John Walter Davis

Medical Technician

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Cynthia Burr

Parrish's Girl

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Susan Bredhoff

Eccheverria's Girl

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Ora Rubinstein

Young Medical Student

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Eric Forst

Mingus

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Adriana Shaw

Dr. Antonini

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Martin Fiscoe

Graduate Student

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Olivia Michelle

Veronica

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***“Night of the Apeman” mixed with some pretty heady material*** In the late 60s and mid-70s, a psychopathologist (William Hurt) from the New York/New England area honestly seeks ultimate truth and the origins of humanity through dubious experiments with sensory deprivation mixed with drugs, including a potent mixture used in ceremonies by Mexican AmerIndians. This leads to altered states of consciousness and amazing primordial revelations. Blair Brown is on hand as his romantic interest while Bob Balaban and Charles Haid appear as his colleagues, the latter a scientific version of a Phari…

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