- DIRECTOR:
John Boorman
- ACTORS:
Sean Connery, Charlotte Rampling, Sara Kestelman, John Alderton, Sally Anne Newton, Niall Buggy
- PLOT:
A trained murderer kills the being posing as his god and proceeds to disrupt the seemingly idyllic world of the immortal society that has long since decayed into decadance.
- EVALUATION:
With its absurd plot, meme-inducing loincloth, and community theatre dialogue, Zardoz serves as a prime example of a film that never bothered to ask itself: "Hey, is this stupid?"
- WRITING:
A sample: "The Penis is evil! The Penis shoots Seeds, and makes new Life to poison the Earth with a plague of men, as once it was. But the Gun shoots Death and purifies the Earth of the filth of Brutals. Go forth, and kill! Zardoz has spoken."
- FILMING:
The cinematography by Geoffrey Unsworth, who did 2001: A Space Odyssey, is actually pretty good.
- BEST PART:
The creepy head statue floating around in the fog (but before it starts vomiting out guns).
- TRIVIA:
Apparently writer-director John Boorman admits that this project was largely drug-fueled.
- STINGER:
Sean Connery shoots the audience.
