Altered States - The Criterion Collection (4K Ultra HD)

Altered States - The Criterion Collection4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray (Restored)Genre: Sci-FiLabel: Criterion CollectionDescription: The ultimate cinematic head trip of the 1980s British renegade Ken Russell's first Hollywood film - adapted by the legendary screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky from his own novel - is part hallucinogenic freak-out part gonzo creature feature part transcendent love story all played at a fever pitch. When researcher Eddie Jessup (William Hurt) begins using himself as a test subject for his mind-expanding psychological experiments it sends him on an increasingly dangerous substance-fueled odyssey from humankind's primordial past to the outer limits of consciousness. It's all visualized by Russell in a psychedelic supernova of out-there imagery that encompasses everything from the pagan to the cosmic sublime culminating in a brain-wave-blasting battle between the mind and the heart.