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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD DVD Layers: 1 DVD Sides: 2 EAN: 9786305133131 Format: AC-3, Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Widescreen, NTSC ISBN: 6305133131 Label: Warner Home Video Languages: Manufacturer: Warner Home Video MPN: D11076D Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Warner Home Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: June 01, 2004 Running Time: 103 minutes Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: December 25, 1980 Editorial Review: Amazon.com: It's easy to understand why the late, great screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky removed his name from the credits of Altered States and substituted the pseudonym Sidney Aaron. After all, Chayefsky was a revered dramatist whose original source novel was intended as a serious exploration of altered consciousness, inspired by the immersion-tank experiments of Dr. John Lilly in the 1970s. In the hands of maverick director Ken Russell, however, Altered States became a full-on sensory assault, using symbolic imagery and mind- blowing special effects to depict one man's physical and hallucinatory journey through the entire history of human evolution. It's a brazenly silly film redeemed by its intellectual ambition--a dazzling extravaganza that's in love with science and scientists, and eagerly willing to dive off the precipice of rationality to explore uncharted regions of mind, body, and spirit. William Hurt made his bold film debut as the psycho-physiologist who plays guinea pig to his own experiments; Blair Brown plays his equally brilliant wife, whose devotion is just strong enough to bring him back from the most altered state imaginable. From the eternal channels of sense memory to the restorative power of a loving embrace, this movie rocks you to the birth of the universe and back again. And while it's clearly not the story that Chayefsky wanted on the screen, the directorial audacity of Ken Russell makes it one heck of a memorable trip. --Jeff Shannon Average Rating:
 Rating: - The Electric Mushroom Soup TestI found this film to be an extremely entertaining, interesting and sometimes genuinely surprising. It was going down avenues I wasn't expecting, ala "This man is a F**king gorilla". And there were moments where I found myself slightly creeped out, which is the film's aim. It's hard to compare this movie to others because there are very few movies like this. "The Fly" comes to mind. As does "2001: A Space Odyssey" and "Jacob's Ladder", but only in the sense the creators ... Read More Rating:  - ALTERED STATES-The Movie I Saw Twice Two Weeks in a RowI remember seeing ALTERED STATES when it first opened in Connecticut in 1980 and as I recall enjoyed it to the tune of about four or even five stars. My three star rating above is based on my recent screenings of the DVD and reflects how my film tastes have changed with the onset of "senior citizenship." My memory of the script excludes the harsh language of the theater release and must have been altered by the TV edited version, which I perceived to be genuinely classier if not just cleaner than the DVD ... Read More Rating:  - Tripping Down Memory Lane...I'm not a big Ken Russell fan. I've found his movies to be a mixed bag of nuts. However, ALTERED STATES is Russell's most coherent and, to me anyway, enjoyable film. It's a love story of sorts, wrapped in the trappings of sci-fi and hallucination. William Hurt is quite believable as Eddie Jessup, a scientist with a bent toward mystical, mind expanding experimentation. He is a seeker and a complete nut by his own admission. Blair Brown is Emily, a brilliant anthropologist who falls in love with Eddie almost ... Read More Rating: - Psychadelic trip from the 70'sIf your the phylisophical type or you have ever experimented with LSD, then you might appreciate this movie if you smoke grass. An insane doctor of research experiments with mind altering drugs mixed with a water tank to cause hallucination. He is on a mad persuit to find the one consciousness and his primordial self. Does he find it? Watch the movie and find out. Descent movie with good special effects for the time. Rating: - Awesome MovieI don't like to "tell" the movie before you get to see it, so all I am going to say is watch it you won't regret it. |
