# Estados alterados (1980)

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**Original title**: *Altered States*
**Runtime**: 103 min
**Genres**: Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller
**Directed by**: Ken Russell
**Written by**: Paddy Chayefsky
**Starring**: William Hurt, Blair Brown, Bob Balaban, Charles Haid, Thaao Penghlis, Miguel Godreau

> *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.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

A basement in Cambridge, 1968, the hum of a fMRI’s cooling fan.

A neuroscientist fills a black tank with saline, drops in psilocybin tea, sinks himself deeper each night until the tank forgets which way is up. Mirrors hung in the tank show faces not his.

Russell’s fevered splice of Freudian horror and cosmic paranoia: one headlong plunge through the membrane of sanity.

**Mood tags**: mindfuck, paranoid, surreal

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