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Zardoz Details

1974

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Starring	Sean Connery, Charlotte Rampling, Sara Kestelman, John Alderton
Director	John Boorman
Genres	Horror, Sci-Fi/Fantasy

Zardoz

When Sean Connery abandoned the James Bond series to seek out new challenges, he turned to director John Boorman's sci-fi project, ZARDOZ. Connery stars as Zed, one of a carefully bred race of supervisors, the Exterminators, who oversee the agricultural labour of the neanderthal Brutals, since in 2293, with most of the Earth's surface off-limits as a polluted Outlands, industrial society has been abandoned. All worship Zardoz, a huge flying stone head who makes periodic visits to Earth to pick up grain consignments and issue bizarre statements involving the male anatomy through the voice of Arthur Frayn (Niall Buggy). An increasingly skeptical Zed decides to stow away inside the head, which deposits him in the Vortex, a commune of scientists and intellectuals who are ruled by the ever-youthful and asexual Eternals. They capture Zed, allowing geneticist May (Sara Kestleman) to use him as a research subject for a limited period, but he begins to arouse more than scientific curiosity in the commune's supposedly nonsexual female population.

Starring	Sean Connery, Charlotte Rampling, Sara Kestelman, John Alderton, Bosco Hogan, Niall Buggy, Sally Anne Newton, Jessica Swift
Director	John Boorman
Studio	20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Run time	DVD: 1 hr 41 mins
Certificate
Genres	Horror, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Language	DVD: English
Hearing-impaired	English
Subtitles	DVD: Croatian, Czech, Danish, Finnish, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Swedish, Turkish
Released	Production year: 1974 To Rent: DVD: 30 Jun 2003

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- A bizarre futurist fantasy which seems to have substituted itself when Boorman's plans to film Tolkien's Lord of the... read more on Time Out
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  Absolutely abysmal
  
  What possessed Sean Connery , one of my favourite stars, to take part in this drivel ???????????????
  
  What a prat he looks in his little thong and ... read more »
  
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  Absolutely abysmal
  
  What possessed Sean Connery , one of my favourite stars, to take part in this drivel ???????????????
  
  What a prat he looks in his little thong and ... read more »
  
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  - 18 Jan 2012 at 01:51
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  it's a long ting
  
  This was really poor and soooooooooooooo slow. I didn't even finish watching it... 'it's a long ting' ('a long thing' = BORING!).
  
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  - 27 Apr 2010 at 21:21
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  ZARDOZ
  
  if you only want to see the beautiful SEAN CONNERY strutting around in a film with the minimum of clothes, you won`t be disappointed. he does it here, and man, ... read more »
  
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Former footballer Stan Collymore is to star in the Basic Instinct sequel alongside Sharon Stone. The ex-England striker, who has become famous for his exploits off and on the pitch, joined the cast of Basic Instinct 2: Risk Addiction during filming in the UK. His cameo will see him seduced by Stone and then literally stabbed in the back. As well as the return of the Casino star Stone the sequel will feature Charlotte Rampling (Angel Heart, Zardoz), David Thewlis (The Big Lebowski, Naked) and... Read more
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  When Sean Connery abandoned the James Bond series to seek out new challenges, he turned to director John Boorman's sci-fi project, ZARDOZ. Connery stars as Zed, one of a carefully bred race of supervisors, the Exterminators, who oversee the agricultural labour of the neanderthal Brutals, since in ...