Altered States (trailer)

He's made of one of the country's leading medical schools. Dr. Edward Jessup candidate for a Nobel Prize is conducting the most dangerous experiment in the history of science. And the subject of the experiment is himself.

Ask him what kind of an experience I can expect. Is this definitely just blacked out? What happens during these blackout periods is you get the feeling of phenomenal acceleration, like you're being shot out over millions, billions of years.

time simply obliterates. You guys are shooting up with an untested drug that stacks up in the brain and works in the nucleus of the cell and you don't call that dangerous. I'm asking you to put the experiment off until we understand a little more in order to minimize the risk.

I'm really frightened. I'm going to be around with this whole genetic structure. How do we stop this? We've got millions of years stored away in that computer bank we call our minds. We have got trillions of dormant genes in us, our whole evolutionary past, perhaps I've tapped into that.

He may be on to something that is beyond our own comprehension and because I believe him, I want this thing stopped! You okay? If you love me, if you love me, very... ...Altered States.