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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.
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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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. The strange thing about these mushrooms, Hurt observes in an easily missed line of dialogue in the movie, is that they give everyone ...
In the late 1960s, just for a lark, graduate student Eddie Jessup, known for being unconventional, brilliant and slightly mad, conducts experiments with an isolation chamber, using himself as the subject.
Nov 15, 2016 · 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...
Jan 1, 1978 · Paddy Chayefsky. 3.86. 853 ratings86 reviews. Edward Jessup, a neurophysiologist at the Harvard Medical School, relentlessly seeks the origins of human consciousness and, with the aide of an isolation tank and a hallucinogenic drug, regresses farther and farther into a proto-human state.
