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The Brood
Why this pick
Like Altered States, it turns radical psychotherapy into unnerving bodily horror, with clinical investigation gradually overwhelmed by primal emotion and grotesque imagery.
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MOVIE1980 1h 42m USA
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Its unstable reality, sensory dread, and intensely subjective descent make it a strong match for Altered States' frightening collision of trauma, perception, and transformation.
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Why this pick
It shares the premise of entering altered consciousness, but channels it through lavish, nightmarish visual design and a suspenseful psychological-horror investigation.
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Beyond the Black Rainbow
Why this pick
A hypnotic, retro-futurist nightmare of experiments, psychic control, and sensory excess that echoes Altered States' fascination with consciousness pushed beyond rational limits.
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eXistenZ
Why this pick
Cronenberg's slippery, disorienting reality games offer a cooler, more satirical counterpart to Altered States' uncertainty about where the mind ends and the physical world begins.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Edward Jessup is a 1970s psychopathologist who, while studying schizophrenia, begins to think that "our Altered state of consciousness are as real as our waking states." Edward begins experimenting with sensory deprivation using a flotation tank, aided by two like-minded researchers, Parrish and Rosenberg. At a faculty party he meets fellow "whiz kid" and biological anthropologist Emily, and the two eventually marry.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
William Hurt
Professor Eddie Jessup
Blair Brown
Emily Jessup
Bob Balaban
Arthur Rosenberg
Thaao Penghlis
Echeverria
Peter Brandon
Hobart
Charles White-Eagle
The Brujo
Drew Barrymore
Margaret Jessup
Francis X. McCarthy
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