Top billed cast

1. 

   William Hurt

   Professor Eddie Jessup

2. 

   Blair Brown

   Emily Jessup

3. 

   Bob Balaban

   Arthur Rosenberg

4. 

   Charles Haid

   Mason Parrish

5. 

   Thaao Penghlis

   Echeverria

6. 

   Miguel Godreau

   Primal Man

7. 

   Dori Brenner

   Sylvia Rosenberg

8. 

   Peter Brandon

   Hobart

9. 

   Charles White-Eagle

   The Brujo

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Reviews

A review by Wuchak

Written by Wuchak on 2019-03-11

***“Night of the Apeman” mixed with some pretty heady material***

In the late 60s and mid-70s, a psychopathologist (William Hurt) from the New York/New England area honestly seeks ultimate truth and the origins of humanity through dubious experiments with sensory deprivation mixed with drugs, including a potent mixture used in ceremonies by Mexican AmerIndians. This leads to altered states of consciousness and amazing primordial revelations. Blair Brown is on hand as his romantic interest while Bob Balaban and Charles Haid appear as his colleagues, the latter a scientific version of a P...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$15,000,000.00

Revenue
$19,853,892.00

Keywords

• experiment
• genetics
• based on novel or book
• ritual
• subconsciousness
• harvard university
• psychology
• surreal
• drug use
• magic mushroom
• drug trip
• university
• drugs
• psychedelics
• metamorphosis
• sensory deprivation
• isolation tank
• deprivation chamber
• psychedelic
• lovecraftian