Altered States Movie Review. In this sense, altered states is first and foremost a horror movie despite its sometimes lengthy forays into science fiction, melodrama, romance and satire. I’m not saying that surrealism in film is the tasmanian tiger but more like the.
Altered states can best be described as ken russell's own 2001; Altered states is a harshly beautiful and intellectual movie based on a book with the same adjectives. Russell and scriptwriter paddy chayefsky don’t reference the vietnam war or watergate directly, and in a way this makes eddie’s.
“altered states” is filled with surreal imagery something that was waning in the films of the 1980’s and is living in almost extinction at this date and time.
Altered states is a harshly beautiful and intellectual movie based on a book with the same adjectives. And no one did this in quite the same way as this particular director: For the /tv/ film club. I saw the movie when it came out and only read the book when, years later, i found a used copy of it for sale.
