Double Feature: THE DEVILS & ALTERED STATES August 20, 2010

Double Feature: THE DEVILS, 1971, Warner Bros., 111 min. Director Ken Russell’s adaptation of Aldous Huxley’s The Devils of Loudun remains one of the most disturbingly memorable films from the early 1970s. In 17th century France, Cardinal Richelieu’s minions use the womanizing of activist priest Urban Grandier (Oliver Reed) as an excuse to investigate his "diabolic possession" of the local nuns, including the demented, hunchbacked Mother Superior Sister Jeanne (an unforgettable Vanessa Redgrave).
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ALTERED STATES, 1980, Warner Bros., 102 min. Director Ken Russell’s hallucinatory version of the Jekyll & Hyde story stars William Hurt as a Harvard professor who explores sensory deprivation in an effort to travel back in time. "A kind of inner-space odyssey that’s terrifying in its view of primal human nature… a mesmerizing visual experience." – Ron Pennington, Hollywood Reporter. Discussion between films with director Ken Russell.
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