

MOVIE
Altered States
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.
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.
ERA & CONTEXT
Altered States in its release era
Released in 1980, Altered States sits inside the 1980s catalog. Explore its creators, studio connections, genres and nearby releases from the same period.
- Release
- 1980-12-25
- Rating
- R
- TMDB score
- 6.7/10
- Original language
- EN
- Status
- Released
- Production
- United States of America
- Studio
- Warner Bros. Pictures
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Topicsexperimentgeneticsbased on novel or bookritualsubconsciousnessharvard universitypsychologysurreal