Since I've just today finally gotten around to seeing the movie Altered States for the very first time, and fallen in love with its wacky visuals, I thought I'd do a post appreciating them. As is unfortunately the case with flicks like this, the internets are still lacking in satisfactory documentation of the crazy; tis my duty to rectify, then. The film's terrifically dated - the boyfriend dubbed it "Close Encounters of the Sexy Kind" which is all too true - and whenever anyone's talking you just want them to immediately shut up, but they don't, they keep jabbering on and on... but when it goes all trippy with the visuals it's a wonder to behold in that very special way movies made in 1980 or so were always being. Plus, hey, lots of prime-aged William Hurt butt.
Above: Not only did they manage to find The World's Most Phallic Rock Formation, but they managed to find The World's Most Phallic Rock Formation That Happens To Stand Beside The World's Most Vaginal Rock Formation. Bravo, people. Bravo.
Okay, so who parked their creepy van in the cave?
Dig it, Bill! (Bill's diggin' it, everybody.)
Fuck Geico!
It's weird; this afternoon, as I was actually watching the movie, I found myself distracted during one of the unfortunate talking scenes and was skimming this review of JJ Abrams' new TV series, Fringe, where randomly this appeared:
"Blair Brown (one of the pilot’s many nods to “Altered States”) is spooky as a creepy Massive Dynamics exec."
Weird, right?!?!? And then I notice that the other movie I'm holding in my hands via Netflix, Crimes of Passion, was also directed by Ken Russell, the man who directed Altered States! Like, that wasn't planned; I wasn't consciously having a Ken Russell movie marathon. It's, like some trippy shit, man. Trippy shit. Bill Hurt is diggin' me.
I have hand, therefore am.
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mmmmmmm, 80s william hurt. good times.
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