Altered States - The Criterion Collection (4K-UHD / BD)

Research scientist Eddie Jessup (William Hurt) becomes convinced that other states of consciousness — accessible through isolation tanks and hallucinogenic plants — are just as real as waking life, and that regression to a primal self is literally possible. Ken Russell's visionary, ferociously inventive adaptation of Paddy Chayefsky's novel is a film of extraordinary ambition: a psychedelic horror film, a love story, and a philosophical provocation simultaneously, with sequences of pure visual delirium that have never been surpassed.

• United States
• 102 min
• Color
• 1.85:1
• English
• Spine #1284
• 1980

DIRECTOR-APPROVED TWO-DISC SPECIAL EDITION

- New 4K digital restoration, supervised by director of photography Jordan Cronenweth's estate, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio and stereo soundtracks
- New audio commentary by filmmaker and critic David Cairns
- New interviews with actors Blair Brown and Drew Barrymore
- Archival interviews with director Ken Russell and screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky
- Original theatrical trailer
- Illustrated booklet with essay