VideoDisc Warner Home Video
Altered States " Feverish, exhilirating, and downright scary..." -Newsweek RCA VIDEODISC
CED :: Capacitance Electronic Disc System
1 Hour and 43 Minutes / Color
Rated R
© 1981 Warner Bros., Inc.
Manufactured & Distributed © 1983 RCA Corporation Starring:
William Hurt
Blair Brown
Bob Balaban
Charles Haid
" The experiments were conducted, at first, in the basement of Colombia University. The subject was placed in a vertical tank which looked very much like a boiler. All sensory stimuli were cut off, leaving the subject floating in the dark for several hours. All but two of the 23 subjects found it exhilirating and a number of them hallucinated. Then one Saturday afternoon in April 1957, the head of the project, Dr. Eddie Jessup decided to try it himself.
And so begins a journey into a terrifying unknown, an odyssey that takes Eddie Jessup (William Hurt) to the very recesses of his mind, further and further back to the wrenching beginnings of mankind itself. Altered States grips you in the very first scenes and doesn't let go until its sensory-barraging climax. It's a dazzling sight and sound show about a brilliant, obsessed scientist who, after losing his faith in God, attempts to find his own true self.
Altered States is more than a journey through the evolutions of time. Intense and provoking, Altered States is a gripping love story about a scientist and his wife who never ceases to love him, crossing the chasms of his nightmares in a courageous attempt to bring him back. Ultimately, it is her journey as well. Brilliantly directed by Ken Russell (Tommy, The Devils), Altered States marks William Hurt's film debut, with a vivid musical accompaniment by John Corigliano, and based on the novel by Paddy Chayefsky (Network, The Hospital). As Richard Corlis wrote in TIME Magazine, Altered States is "...a film experience that will astound some viewers, outrage others and bore nobody. Laugh with it, scream with it, think about it. You may leave the theater in an altered state." "
-Karla Bonime Used videodisc.
This item is approximately the size of a large record (over 12" x 12")
It has not been tested and has some wear to the label.
The plastic part is slightly dirty.
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