Altered States's reviews
Media reviews
Chicago Sun-Times
'Altered States' is a superbly silly movie, a magnificent entertainment, and a clever and brilliant machine for making us feel awe, fear, and humor.
Time
Orchestrating the efforts of a superb production team Russell has devised a film experience that will astound some viewers, outrage others and bore nobody.
Empire
Not one to let slow-building tension and mystery get in the way of wild flourishes of extremism and shock, Ken Russell hit upon a story that more or less handled his structural excesses and tendency toward blasphemy.
New York Times
The film is in fine shape as long as it revels in its own craziness, making no claims on the viewer's reason. But when it asks you to believe that what you're watching may really be happening, and to wonder what it means, it is asking far too much.
The New Yorker
An aggressively silly head-horror movie, the result of the misalliance of two wildly different hyperbolic talents-the director Ken Russell and the writer Paddy Chayefsky.
Festival Internacional de Cine de Lanzarote