Altered States
Movie • 1980 • Horror
ReportA research scientist explores the boundaries and frontiers of consciousness. Using sensory deprivation and hallucinogenic mixtures from native American shamans, he explores these altered states of consciousness and finds that memory, time, and perhaps reality itself are states of mind.
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Does someone attempt suicide?
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Not held underwater, but the main character does spend a lot of time in sensory deprivation tanks. The movie starts with him in one
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Not necessarily abusive but a wife does forgive her husband for being a terrible husband
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This movie is entirely focused on hallucinations from psychedelic drugs, and also features marijuana use.
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Protagonist is addicted to hallucinations from psychedelics, but doesn't seem to be addicted to the drugs themselves, if that makes sense.
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A monitor lizard's body is shown dead and gutted, graphically.
A sheep has a rock thrown out at it's head, is dragged away and yells out in distress, and is eaten, graphically. The gore of the remainder of it's corpse is shown after.
A sheep has a rock thrown out at it's head, is dragged away and yells out in distress, and is eaten, graphically. The gore of the remainder of it's corpse is shown after.
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strawdairy
As well as the other comment, the main character also terrorizes other animals at the zoo, he punches an elephant in the head a few times
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The lizard is at 00:36:46.
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When the doctor has hallucinations and flashbacks, there are snakes that flash by quickly.
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No one is drugged against their will, but there is a lot of drug use in the movie
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No restraints, but in the very beginning of the movie the main character is in a harness in a sensory deprivation tank
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In a very brief ~20 second moment during an early hallucination, the protagonist hallucinates about this. It's brief, dreamlike, and seems to be taking place from a distance.
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Doctor hallucinates visions of hell.
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The transformation sequences in the second half involve some graphic body horror
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Does a head get squashed?
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Not squashed but someone gets hit in the head repeatedly with an iron bar. They survive
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Technically no, but the main character does get cut in the webbing between two fingers
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Lots of animal gore
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Not a character per se, but a few animals die
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Eddie talks about his father dying of cancer when he was a child and how upsetting he found it
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Yes, the main character cheats on his wife, though they are planning on getting divorced at the time
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This came out before 9/11
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Eddie is held in police custody after he’s found at the zoo. He’s released quickly
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No characters in the movie have cancer, but the main character does talk about his father dying of cancer. Later on the main character is told that someone working on the experiment with his wants to have him tested for cancer, but he never is and is never diagnosed.
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I mean, a mentally ill person becomes violent during very fantastical circumstances that just plain aren't analogous to real-life mental illness. So technically yes, but the illness is not responsible for the violence.
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Hallucinations and altered reality is a key theme of the movie
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There's body horror, but no character at any point remarks on seeing something negative about themselves that other people can't see.
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Nearly all of the hallucination scenes have flashing lights and images, a lot of which fash quickly
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A professor (mid-late 30s?) sleeps with one of his college age students
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Christianity and other faiths are discussed a lot, especially in the first half of the film
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There is a discussion between the main character and his love interest about his father dying from cancer
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