If you look at any list of the best sci-fi movies of all time, I’d wager that 1974’s Zardoz is not on there. It’s just too weird for a mainstream audience.
However, weird does not necessarily mean “bad,” and I’d argue that Zardoz, which was directed by John Boorman (who directed the worst Exorcist movie of all time, Exorcist II: The Heretic) is arguably more interesting than widely accepted sci-fi movies like Oblivion, Elysium, and Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of War of the Worlds (Ouch, I just realized that I mentioned TWO middling Tom Cruise movies).
