Altered States
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.
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Production
Genre
Budget
$15 000 000
Box office
$19 853 898
Director
Actors
William Hurt, Blair Brown, Bob Balaban, Charles Haid, Thaao Penghlis, Miguel Godreau, Dori Brenner, Peter Brandon, Charles White-Eagle, Drew Barrymore
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Howard Gottfried, Daniel Melnick
Camera operator
Composer
John Corigliano
Artist
Richard Macdonald, Jeff Howard
Audition
Howard Feuer, Jeremy Ritzer
Editing
Eric Jenkins
Whole Team (70)
Whole Team (70)
Short description
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.
What's left behind the scenes
- John Cunningham Lilly, who invented the sensory deprivation chamber and was the first to think of taking drugs in it, was a professional dolphin researcher.
- The full version of the film has a runtime of 150 minutes.
- According to Ken Russell, 26 other people had been offered the opportunity to direct the film for Warner Bros. before him, but they all declined.
- Screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky (1923-1981) refused to acknowledge this film as being based on his novel of the same name (1978). Although the dialogue in the screenplay was taken from his book almost verbatim, he reportedly disliked the film's overall atmosphere. He constantly clashed with the film's director, Ken Russell, and even refused to watch the film before demanding his name be removed from the credits. Therefore, the screenplay was credited to Sidney Aaron (Chayefsky's first and middle names).
- Objecting to Paddy Chayefsky's constant interference in the filmmaking process, Ken Russell banned him from the set altogether. It is claimed that Chayefsky attempted to oust Russell as director through behind-the-scenes maneuvers, but the film was already too far along in production, and all his attempts failed.
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