Altered States is a 1980 American science fiction horror film [1] directed by Ken Russell, and adapted by playwright and screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky from his 1978 novel of the same name.

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 …

A psychophysicologist's work on human consciousness intensifies, and only the strong-willed love of his anthropologist wife, Emily, can save him.

“Altered States” is one hell of a movie — literally. It hurls its characters headlong back through billions of years to the moment of creation and finds nothing there except an anguished scream of “No!” as the …

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To unlock the secrets of the universe, a Harvard scientist subjects himself to mind-bending experiments that produce unexpected and alarming results. Watch trailers & learn more.

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 …

A Harvard scientist conducts experiments on himself with a hallucinatory drug and an isolation chamber that may be causing him to regress genetically.

When researcher Eddie Jessup (William Hurt) begins using himself as a test subject for his mind-expanding psychological experiments, it sends him on an increasingly dangerous, substance-fueled …