Altered States

William Hurt's character, through a combination of a psychedelic potion and sensory depreviation experiments, is able to awaken in himself the primal human. Basically, he turns into an ape-man and wrecks the shit out of everything. It was grand. At one point, right after his full transformation into a Cro-Magnon, he stumbles into a the city zoo (which apparently is only about two blocks from the university and only surrounded by a five-foot fence) kills and eats a sheep (there's about 300 sheep in a city zoo for some reason) before passing out and waking up a normal human being, albeit very naked and covered in sheep's blood.

The end of this movie has to be seen to be believed. Im sure that sounds as cliche as it comes, but I really have no idea how to best describe it. So I've just posted the video below.


A+ stuff, though, for what amounted to the greatest B movie I think I've ever seen. No idea how I let this one escape me for so many years. You'd figure this would be a Saturday afternoon classic shown on every UHF channel on earth.