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Altered States
MEANRANK
69/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #2562
- IMDb #2502
- Rotten Tomatoes #1815
- Metacritic #2488
- Letterboxd #1499
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #1592
+7 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #2513
- Metacritic Critics #2691
- Metacritic Audience #2227
- Criticker #1474
- Kinopoisk #2840
- AlloCiné #2233
- Trakt #3354
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 52, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 85.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A brilliant but obsessive psychologist experiments with sensory deprivation tanks and hallucinogenic drugs, seeking to unlock different states of human consciousness. His experiments become increasingly radical, causing him to experience regressive, primal visions. He begins to physically devolve into a primitive, apelike state, threatening his life and his sanity.
Details
- Director
- Ken Russell
- Writer
- Paddy Chayefsky
- Based on
- a work by Paddy Chayefsky
- Studio
- Warner Bros. Pictures
- Released
- 25 December 1980
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 103 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $15.0M
- Box office
- $19.9M
- Awards
- 0 wins, 5 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 5 →0 wins from 5 nominations across 1 ceremony
| 53rd Academy Awards 1981 | Best Sound | Arthur Piantadosi | Nominee |
| 53rd Academy Awards 1981 | Best Sound | Michael Minkler | Nominee |
| 53rd Academy Awards 1981 | Best Sound | Les Fresholtz | Nominee |
| 53rd Academy Awards 1981 | Best Sound | Willie D. Burton | Nominee |
| 53rd Academy Awards 1981 | Best Original Score | John Corigliano | Nominee |
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5 awards — Altered States
×| Best Original Score | John Corigliano | Nominee |
| Best Sound | Arthur Piantadosi | Nominee |
| Best Sound | Michael Minkler | Nominee |
| Best Sound | Les Fresholtz | Nominee |
| Best Sound | Willie D. Burton | Nominee |