Zardoz (1974)

It's 2293 A.D. and an elite but effete society of intellectuals rule the devastated planet behind the protection of the Vortex which separates them from the barbaric masses. An exterminator (Sean Connery), they kill potential breeders to curb overpopulation, hops into a flying stone head and penetrates the Vortex. Now, the plot makes the movie sound a lot more fun than it is. What could have been a splashy sci-fi adventure is a pretentious piece of rubbish. What spawn hath 2001 wrought? This is one cockamamie film! A beefy Connery runs around in a red diaper for the majority of the movie until he exchanges it for a white wedding gown! Yep, it's that kind of loopy movie. After awhile, one drops all pretense of following the silly plot and its pseudo intellectual babble and grasps at whatever unintentional laughs there are to be had. After the critical and box office success of DELIVERANCE, apparently the director John Boorman was given carte blanche to make whatever film he wanted and wrote, produced and directed this! He topped this lulu with his next film, EXORCIST II: THE HERETIC. Not surprisingly, the film has developed not one but two cult followings. One that revels in its badness and another that sees something profound in it. With Charlotte Rampling, Sara Kestelman, John Alderton and Niall Buggy.