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Blair Brown, Bob Balaban, Charles Haid, Dori Brenner, Drew Barrymore, Miguel Godreau, Peter Brandon, Thaao Penghlis, William Hurt
Id: 10896684
Exhilarating psychological sci-fi about a university professor who encloses himself in a sensory-deprivation chamber and experiments with hallucinogenic drugs with drastic results. Seductively sets up a feeling of anticipation in the first half, then devolves into a rather amusi...( read more)
who would have thought getting into a box with water could revert you to your primal self..... with shrooms of course
The special effects of 2001: a space odyssey, but with a good storyline to go with it. The William Hurt monkey was awesome. I think it's neat to think about how our bodies are made up of elements that have been other people's bodies and minds since the beginning.
I'm no fan of director Russell but this was a creepy pseudo-scientific movie. The FX were surprisingly good and I enjoyed the trippy moments. It reminded me alot of Cronenberg's early work.
A phenemonal and conversational movie for its time. Groundbreaking effects. I liked the concept of prolonged sensory deprivation causing a regression to primative human life. Freaky eye-candy effects. Fascinating. DEVO should've done some of the soundtrack. A mind-odyssey onscreen!
Cool idea; but the amateurishly executed effects ruin the otherwise darkly disturbing mood. And Blair Brown is really annoying.
Amazing. The story is dark but is lightened by well-placed, yet sometimes cheesy, humor.
The peak solliquy to the heady and bawdy times of the post-Vietnam War era; "free your mind and your mind will lead you to your past". This is an important film; well-conceived, smart, and boundlessly intriguing. By mixing plausible science with some of the fantastical musings of...( read more)
A quasi-Frankenstein tale of how meddling with the natural order of things can go disatrously wrong.
