1980 1h 43m Ken Russell

Altered States

Name: Altered States
Genre: Horror, Science-Fiction, Mystery & Thriller
Released: 1980
Rating: 6.9
Cast: William Hurt, Blair Brown, Bob Balaban, Charles Haid

★ 6.9 IMDb

Horror Science-Fiction Mystery & Thriller

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.

Writer Paddy Chayefsky

Cast William Hurt, Blair Brown, Bob Balaban, Charles Haid

DP Jordan Cronenweth

Music John Corigliano

Essays and Criticism

On this film

Lost Sounds and Soundtracks. Ken Russell's "Altered States" by Ben Simington, MUBI Notebook

On Ken Russell

Ken Russell, 1927 - 2011 by David Hudson, MUBI Notebook Refusing to Lie Down: Truth, Fiction, and Ken Russell’s Early Television Documentaries by Bart Versteirt, photogénie Imagining the Past: Ken Russell, Biography and the Art of Making History, Brussels, BE, 19–20 March 2014 by Kevin M. Flanagan, Alphaville

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Awards & Festivals

Nominated Academy Award for Best Sound

Nominated Academy Award for Best Original Score

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