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Altered States
Released: December 25, 1980
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Director: Ken Russell
Writer: Paddy Chayefsky
Starring: William Hurt, Blair Brown, Bob Balaban, Drew Barrymore
A Harvard scientist conducts experiments on himself with a hallucinatory drug and an isolation chamber that may be causing him to regress genetically.
The Fly
Released: August 15, 1986
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Director: David Cronenberg
Writer: David Cronenberg, Charles Edward Pogue
Starring: Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis, John Getz, David Cronenberg
A brilliant but eccentric scientist begins to transform into a giant man/fly hybrid after one of his experiments goes horribly wrong.
