Altered States (1980)
"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."
Critics Score
🎬 72%
(RT: 86%, MC: 58) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Charles Haid as Mason Parrish
Thaao Penghlis as Echeverria
Miguel Godreau as Primal Man
Dori Brenner as Sylvia Rosenberg
Peter Brandon as Hobart
Is Altered States good?
Most people think so. 83% of audiences gave it a thumbs up, by Google's archived audience score. Critics gave it 72%.
Where it ranks on ThumbScore
By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.
Overview
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. Wikipedia ↗
