ALTERED STATES Directed by Ken Russell; Screenplay by Sidney AaronThis one has everything: sex, violence, comedy, thrills, tenderness.It's an anthology and apotheosis of American pop movies:...

Altered States is an exciting combo science fiction-horror film [from the novel by Paddy Chayefsky]. Direction by Ken Russell has energy to spare, with appropriate match-up of his baroque visual style to special effects intensive material.

“Altered States” is one hell of a movie -- literally. It hurls its characters headlong back through billions of years to the moment of creation and finds

R • 1 hour 42 min • 2013

Russell’s kinetic head trip about the dangers of scientific self-indulgence comes to high definition in a forgettable package.

Read the Empire Movie review of Altered States. It's got Russell's trademark eccentricity (read: slight bonkers-ness) all over it, which you may...

Based on a novel and a disowned script by the late Paddy Chayefsky, Russell's noisily grandiose swipe at psychedelia embellishes what is no more than the cosily

The primordial soul of ancient mankind is the “truth” which scientist Eddie Jessup (William Hurt) seeks in Ken Russell’s Altered States, a film whose tedium is intermittently broken up by eruptions of psychosexual Russell-ian montage madness. Eddie believes that, by...

In this uneasy blend of the extreme visuals of director Ken Russell and the bloated dramaturgy of writer Paddy Chayefsky (who disowned this adaptation of his novel), Hurt plays an agnostic psychophysiologist who’s willing to try anything to find life’s answers: sensory deprivation tanks, mushrooms, you name it.