Altered Apes

Earliest known poster for Altered Apes.

Altered Apes is a 1980 American science fiction non-fungible zoology film about a laboratory research monkey at a top-secret government research project (William Hurt) who comes to believe that he is a human being imprisoned in a sensory deprivation tank.

Tagline

In the basement of university computer science school Dr. Jessup floats nakes in total darkness. The most terrifying experiment in the history of non-fungible tokens is out of control ... and the subject is himself.

Hashtags

• #NonFungiblePsychochemistry

Commentary

Basically 12 Monkeys meets Jacob's Ladder but only one monkey and it's the protagonist.

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Fiction cross-reference

• Annie Got Her Gun
• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles
• Johnny Got His Code
• NFT, the Wrath of God
• The Phantom Hurt Locker

External links

• Post @ Twitter ( 2022)
• https://twitter.com/GnomonChronicl1/status/1537291816168574977
• https://twitter.com/GnomonChronicl1/status/1531825867730653186

• Altered States @ Wikipedia
• Altered States Trailer (1980) @ YouTube
• Altered States - Religious Hallucination @ YouTube
• Blackout period @ YouTube
• Primeval Unleashed @ YouTube
• "This guy's a fucking gorilla..." @ YouTube
• Altered States transformation scene to single cell @ YouTube
• Altered States - final scene @ YouTube

• Bob Balaban interview - Altered States @ YouTube