Altered States

Altered States

  • Director: Ken Russell
  • Countries of origin: United States
  • Language: English, Spanish
  • Release date: December 25, 1980
  • Sound mix: Dolby Stereo
  • Aspect ratio: 1.85 : 1
  • Also known as: Der Höllentrip
  • "Altered States" is a horror sci-fi film directed by Ken Russell and starring William Hurt and Blair Brown.
    The film tells the story of scientist Eddie Jessup, who uses a mysterious potion brought back from a tribe to let himself experience an amazing and mysterious world.

    Details

    • Release date December 25, 1980
    • Filming locations 168th St. Broadway, New York City, New York, USA
    • Production companies Warner Bros.

    Box office

    Gross US & Canada

    $19,853,892

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $174,650

    Gross worldwide

    $19,853,892

    Movie reviews

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    • By Jaylon 2022-11-02 21:58:43

      The right person who presses the flashlight crazily is that you came here, labor and management won't take you today (hold

      At first I thought it was a philosophical film.

      It turned out to be a sci-fi movie.

      Then I thought it was a love story.

      In the end, it was decided that this was a funny movie.

      The male and female protagonists live together once they meet, they get married on the second side, they can even make soy sauce on the third side, and on the fourth side, are you divorced or not? Is this story moving a little too fast? ?

      There are also special effects of the momentum...

    • By Monique 2022-10-23 02:09:26

      God made! The director must also be a quantum theory lover!

      If nothing else, just the idea that consciousness can affect reality and thus materialize it is enough to give this film 4 points, and the other point is for special effects (that was 37 years ago!! In 1980, it was said that special effects were not good. Look for the works of the same period), there is a very famous experiment in quantum theory: Schrödinger's cat, which probably means that consciousness affects matter, and consciousness determines matter.
           In the film, the male...

    • By Mozelle 2022-10-21 01:32:59

      Soul Search, an Illusionary Journey

      "Searching for the Soul" was originally a novel by Oscar-winning screenwriter and author of "TV" Tchaiyevsky. Focusing on satirizing the arrogance and hypocrisy of scientists, Tchayevsky himself is quite a favorite work, but it did not go well after the start. Ken Russell is actually a new candidate after the original director Arthur Penn left the scene in anger. However, when the work is handed over to Russell, who has a unique style, it is of course impossible to follow the original style....

    • By Dameon 2022-09-17 00:57:26

      Man in front of God

      There you have it. Man in front of God.

      The reactions people who witness it are fascinating: you have devasation, extreme enthusiasm and utter denial.

      And the man who lived through it? He sat naked beside his mortal wife and kissed her skin.

      The two of them, naked in the end, holding each other, turning their back on the ultimate truth and choosing humanity, along with all of its transience, fragility and confusion.

      So there you have it. A parody of Adam...

    • By Zella 2022-05-11 21:17:40

      back to the apes

      In terms of evolutionary history, human evolution started from apes. This film subverts this evolutionary history: humans return to the apes. And it is even more subversive of evolutionary theory: from the outside influences the inside, people can cause changes in external performance according to the movement of thoughts.
       
      Ken Russell's directorial work retains his controversial themes and eroticism and nudity compared to his to-see list. There is no shortage of carcasses in his...

    User comments

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    • By Rowan 2023-08-29 04:36:02

      Quite a weird movie, the concept is very advanced, I feel that the director has to take medicine to make it, it should be a rare masterpiece in old-fashioned horror...

    • By Seamus 2023-07-16 13:18:30

      Ken Russell is one of my two favourite British directors...both super...

    • By Thora 2023-06-11 19:32:14

      There is a monkey in the depths of the...

    • By Amely 2023-06-05 23:46:04

      Fetal dream experiment, very mad...

    • By Eldora 2023-04-28 06:29:04

      Many sci-fi movies are good to watch as horror movies, and the themes are mysterious and heavy in style. There's a section in the middle that says "Dr. Jekyll and Mr....

    Movie plot

    Scientist Eddie Jessup has always imagined that there is a different dimension of consciousness, and he wants to find the most primitive things of human beings in this space. In addition to scientific sensors, Eddie does not hesitate to use a mysterious potion brought back from a tribe to allow himself to experience the amazing and mysterious world. He thought that he himself felt the most primitive state of man in the test box,...
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    Evaluation action

    It's a thrilling and creepy film at the helm of the famously quirky director Ken Russell. The main actor is William Hurt, who has been shortlisted for the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for three consecutive years and has become a smash hit. The film's acting skills are still old-fashioned, and the style overwhelms other actors, from the most eye-catching red flower to the green leaf that is hard to ignore. This film is...
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    Movie quotes

    • Eddie Jessup: What dignifies the Yogic practices is that the belief system itself is not truly religious. There is no Buddhist God per se. It is the Self, the individual Mind, that contains immortality and ultimate truth.

      Emily Jessup: What the hell is not religious about that? You've simply replaced God with the Original Self.

      Eddie Jessup: Yes, but we've localized it. Now I know where the Self is. It's in our own minds. It's a form of human energy. Our atoms are six billion years old. We've got six billion years of memory in our minds.

    • Eddie Jessup: Memory is energy! It doesn't disappear - it's still in there. There's a physiological pathway to our earlier consciousnesses. There has to be; and I'm telling you it's in the goddamned limbic system.

      Mason Parrish: You're a whacko!

      Eddie Jessup: What's whacko about it, Mason? I'm a man in search of his true self. How archetypically American can you get? We're all trying to fulfill ourselves, understand ourselves, get in touch with ourselves, face the reality of ourselves, explore ourselves, expand ourselves. Ever since we dispensed with God we've got nothing but ourselves to explain this meaningless horror of life. That first self is real... and I'm going to find the fucker.

    • Eddie Jessup: You saved me. You redeemed me from the pit. I was in it, Emily. I was *in* that ultimate moment of terror that is the beginning of life. It is nothing. Simple, hideous nothing. The final truth of all things is that there is no final Truth. Truth is what's transitory. It's human life that is real. I don't want to frighten you, Emily, but what I'm trying to tell you is that moment of terror is a real and living horror, living and growing within me now, and the only thing that keeps it from devouring me is you.

      Emily Jessup: Why don't you just come back to us?

      Eddie Jessup: It's too late. I don't think I can get it out of me anymore. I can't live with it. The pain is too great.