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TITLE...........: Altered States (1980)
STARS...........: William Hurt, Blair Brown, Bob Balaban
DIRECTOR........: Ken Russell
WRITERS.........: Paddy Chayefsky
GENRE...........: Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller
METACRITIC......: 58/71
TOMATOMETER.....: 86/71
IMDB SCORE......: 6.9
IMDB LINK.......: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080360
RUNTIME.........: 1h 42mn
SIZE............: 6.74 GB
VIDEO CODEC.....: HEVC (Main10@L4)
BITRATE.........: 8000 Kbps (2-pass)
RESOLUTION......: 1920x1040
ASPECT RATIO....: 1.85:1
FRAMERATE.......: 23.976 fps
AUDIO1..........: English Dolby Digital Plus 5.1 768kbps
AUDIO1..........: English FLAC 2.0
AUDIO2..........: Commentary by critic Samm Deighan
SUBTITLES.......: ENG
SOURCE..........: Criterion Blu-ray
ENCODE DATE.....: 2025-12-05
The ultimate cinematic head trip of the 1980s, British renegade Ken Russell’s first Hollywood production—adapted by the legendary screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky from his own novel—is part hallucinogenic freak-out, part gonzo creature feature, part transcendent love story, all played at a fever pitch. When researcher Eddie Jessup (William Hurt) begins using himself as a test subject for his mind-expanding psychological experiments, it sends him on an increasingly dangerous, substance-fueled odyssey from humankind’s primordial past to the outer limits of consciousness. It’s all visualized by Russell in a psychedelic supernova of out-there imagery that encompasses everything from the pagan to the cosmic sublime, culminating in a brain-wave-blasting battle between the mind and the heart.
Extras
• Commentary by critic Samm Deighan.
• Ken Russell
• William Hurt
• Bran Ferren
• Trailer
