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Thirty Horror Films for October 2025. Film Three. Altered States (1980)

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  How did I miss this one? Ken Russell brings his sacrilegious fascination with religion to an exploration of the psychoactive drugs and the human psyche. If you like 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Altered States captures a similar feeling of the human in transition. The scenes where Edward Jessup (William Hurt) transforms into other forms are worth the trip alone. 

Recurring Dreams

I have only experienced recurring dreams once. When I was a kid, and remembered my dreams with more frequency, and in greater detail, I had a dream that kept coming back for a few weeks. It was very detailed, and in hindsight, I'm not sure if it was exactly the same, but it had many of the same features. I  remember being confused that I kept having it because it never had before. One funny thing about memory is that you believe something happened in a specific way, and it might not have. Remembering a dream is even more challenging because nobody but you remembers it, so you cannot ask them if it really happened that way.  Visually, the dream was striking, memorable, and very strange. It was like I was trapped in a Scooby-Doo episode, except the animation was crisper and more bizarre than the Hanna-Barbera cartoon. There were two witches that looked like they had escaped from The Wizard of Oz that flitted in and out and a sled race that led me back to the beginning of the dr...