Started off promising and ended HORRIBLY
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Altered States
againstglobalism — 9 years ago(November 02, 2016 11:55 PM)
Seeing that this movie is from 1980, I was able to get passed all the cheesy special effects. Actually, some of the special effects are kinda neat, considering the year that the movie was made. William Hurt basically made the movie. His acting performance is what kept my attention. The entire cast did a really good job. At first, I thought this movie was going to be about a scientist studying drugs, sensory deprivation tanks, and psychonauticswhich I found intriguing. But once the whole "primal beast" showed up in the plot, that pretty much ruined the rest of the movie for me. It went from William Hurt tripping in sensory deprivation tanksgetting marriedtripping on Mexican mushrooms with a Native American tribeto William Hurt turning into a caveman. I thought it was an extremely dumb plot twist. This movie had a lot of potential to be great, but failed miserably. Don't even get me started on the super lame ending.