Altered States

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Jonathan O @RT41230270 Aug 9 What a crazy, bizarre, body horror ride. The visual are out of this world it felt like Kubrick's style of 2001: a space odyssey, clockwork orange, and the shining and the sound effects are terrific but the make-up design by Dick Smith is absolutely unbelievable and fascinating and really outstanding cast and directing and storytelling. See more Melissa L @Agent99 Apr 29 Weird and dramatic, it really isn't a "horror" movie. It was okay. See more Bucky R @Bucky3085 Apr 4 This a WILD one from Ken Russell. See more Mark S. @sparkysnyder Feb 1 Freaky good. Introduced to William Hurt / Blair Brown. AHA stole the last scene for its “take on me” music video. Far out See more Justin T @RT08580778 Dec 3 I knew nothing about this film and had no idea what to expect. I was very engaged and enjoyed it a lot. It's a very high quality production. The cinematography especially is beautiful. Some minor issues with the sound design and special effects but nothing that takes away from the film. The acting is excellent. The writing is the star, it is a really interesting concept and feels believable, like they weren’t just talking science fiction, they were talking science fact. They explain it all well. It has a really engaging story and characters. There is a Lovecraftian vibe to some of it. It’s also possibly the best Cronenberg film and it wasn’t even made by him. The only real downside is the ending, it is so abrupt and leaves too much unresolved. See more Mauro L @Mauro_Lanari 01/08/2025 (Mauro Lanari) I've never found any other author who has been able to respond to Klimov's adherence to the eschatological implication of the biblical idea of a reversal of the arrow of time ("History will be rolled back like a scroll": Isaiah 34:4 || Revelation 6:14). As far as we know, it's as Russell suggests: a complete regression, i.e., cosmogenetic (back to the Big Bang or whatever preceded it), psychogenetic (back to before the zygotic sexual fertilization), and mythopoetic (back to before Adam and Eve), would lead us to annihilation. We wouldn't rewrite the historical course but, by erasing it, we would also lose our own historical identities. Back then, cinema still dared to confront the most serious, profound, and challenging research and studies of human culture. See more Read all reviews

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