Altered States (1980)

Ridiculously weird movie about an anti-social researcher into altered states of consciousness, achieved first through isolation tank experiments, then drugs, then isolation experiments AND drugs: the magic combination!

Somehow he's able to access eons-old memories and become a prehistoric monkey-man before he's pulled back from the brink by loooooove. I didn't really get it and I didn't really care. It's so, so tedious and talky.

D+