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#5,716 All-time worldwide
#36 1980 releases

Movie profile

Altered States

1980 · 103 min · Warner Bros. Pictures

Horror Science Fiction Thriller
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $19.9M
Budget $15.0M
Gross minus budget $4.9M
ROI 1.32x

Domestic gross

$9.5M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$10.3M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$4.1M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Altered States ranks

Positioned across the all-time chart, release year, studio, franchise and genre indexes where enough mapped data exists.
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All-time worldwide #5,716 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1980 releases #36 Release-year chart position of 126 titles Ranked against movies released in 1980. Studio / company #151 Warner Bros. Pictures of 288 titles Position inside the mapped Warner Bros. Pictures movie set. Primary genre #544 Horror of 1,240 titles Genre context based on the first mapped genre on this profile.

Nearby worldwide ranks

Comparable titles immediately around this movie by reported worldwide gross.

#5,713 Fire in the Sky 1993 · $19.9M #5,714 Volunteers 1985 · $19.9M #5,715 The Apostle 1997 · $19.9M #5,717 Blindness 2008 · $19.8M #5,718 The Last: Naruto the Movie 2014 · $19.8M #5,719 Cruising 1980 · $19.8M

Quick answer

How did Altered States (1980) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Altered States (1980) earned a reported $19.9M worldwide against a reported $15.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $4.9M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 1.32x. In this database it currently ranks #5,716 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #36 among 1980 releases.

Worldwide gross
$19,853,892
Budget
$15,000,000
Gross minus budget
$4,853,892
ROI
1.32x
Source: TMDb. Last updated: Jul 13, 2026. View source Gross-minus-budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and later home/streaming revenue.

Synopsis

Story

A research scientist explores the boundaries and frontiers of human consciousness. Using sensory deprivation and hallucinogenic mixtures from Native American shamans, he explores these altered states of cognizance and finds that memory, time, and reality itself are states of mind.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Dec 25, 1980
Production
Warner Bros. Pictures
Countries
US

Related indexes

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1980, Altered States is positioned in this dataset as a Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller title from Warner Bros. Pictures. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $19.9M, reported production budget is $15.0M, gross-minus-budget is $4.9M, ROI is 1.32x. For comparison, it currently sits #5,716 all-time in the current chart set and #36 among 1980 releases. Streaming availability should be checked against the selected United States region because provider rights can change.

AI-generated contextual summary based on available movie, genre, ranking and box office data. It does not replace official distributor notes or financial reporting.
Data noteGross minus budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and downstream revenue. Domestic, international and opening weekend figures marked as estimated are modelled estimates.