Ha, the Altered States movie instantly came to mind just by association with the headline. Read down a few paragraphs and, hey, there it is!
I saw the movie as a kid on late night TV. One fine day just a couple of years ago, I suddenly remembered it, googled for a while (not remembering its name) and watched it again.
The movie contains a Jeckyll-and-Hyde trope which is so laughably impossible that the screenwriters don't even bother trying to weave in a shred of a plausible explanation for it that a seasoned sci-fi aficionado could swallow. If you can get past that, the film as such is decent and entertaining. Certainly enough to impress a twelve-year-old kid into looking for it thirty years later to watch again.
I saw the movie as a kid on late night TV. One fine day just a couple of years ago, I suddenly remembered it, googled for a while (not remembering its name) and watched it again.
The movie contains a Jeckyll-and-Hyde trope which is so laughably impossible that the screenwriters don't even bother trying to weave in a shred of a plausible explanation for it that a seasoned sci-fi aficionado could swallow. If you can get past that, the film as such is decent and entertaining. Certainly enough to impress a twelve-year-old kid into looking for it thirty years later to watch again.