--- product_id: 22498549 title: "Zardoz" price: "£533.68" currency: GBP in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/22498549-zardoz store_origin: GB region: United Kingdom --- # Zardoz **Price:** £533.68 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Zardoz - **How much does it cost?** £533.68 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.co.uk](https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/22498549-zardoz) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Writer-director John Boorman's fabulously bizarre Zardoz (1974) is a visually stunning science fiction/fantasy fable starring Sean Connery as the spanner in the works of a dreamily languid future society. A primitive Adam, Connery's Zed charges like a bull through the china shop of a civilization from which all signs of lusty humanity have been drained. Co-starring the fascinating Charlotte Rampling, and featuring spectacular production design by Anthony Pratt and stunning cinematography by Geoffrey Unsworth. Review: Forgotten goodie. - Oldie but goodie! Very different take on Syfy. Really good actors who are British icons - in their youth here! Review: Zardoz does it! - No matter how critical an attitude I bring to it, I simply cannot dislike this film! Its premises, performances, and images are a godsend to a lover of "thinking person's" science fiction. I have no idea what previous reviewers mean when they talk of a hippie sensibility pervading the film. I saw it twice during its initial release and have just seen it again after twenty some odd years; it still holds its special relevance and the satire still connects. Plus, it's a pleasure watching a science fiction film without a surfeit of gratuitous computer generated effects. Most of the story is told with the use of splendid cinematography, interesting sets, and a simple straightforward script with a few compelling twists. Some may argue that the actors' lines are trite; they are, but to wonderful biting effect. The masks worn by the Exterminators are marvelous, as is the floating head of Zardoz. The aerial photography and sound effects are also used to great effect near the beginning of the film to set the stage for the entrance into the Vortex and Zed's "big boy adventure" among the Immortals. Though Sean Connery's Zed chews most of the scenery, my favorite character was Friend played by John Alderton, especially after he received his sentence and was banished to the world of the aging Renegades. Hilarious! Even the time lapse ending was effective. Normally this device is used as a crutch for a filmmaker simply because he/she doesn't know how to develop a denouement. Not here; it works perfectly! This DVD release is crisp and vibrant with stunningly saturated colors and fine sound. I concur with a previous reviewer; this has to be the finest use of the Second Movement of Beethoven's Seventh Symphony ever in a film, heard in both it's original scoring and in a special choral arrangement--slow, stately and at a funeral march tempo, the way it should be despite the composer's score markings! I haven't heard the director's narrative track and am in no hurry to do so; the film speaks well for itself. In my opinion, this rightfully ranks as a "must have" for fans of lovingly-made, imaginative, and thought-provoking films. Bring an open mind and a sense of humor along with the popcorn; you're in for a treat! ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Contributor | Charlotte Rampling, John Boorman, Sean Connery | | Customer Reviews | 4.1 out of 5 stars 1,738 Reviews | | Format | Blu-ray | | Genre | Drama | | UPC | 709112696636 811956020413 | ## Images ![Zardoz - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/A1yCm6ESpnL.jpg) ![Zardoz - Image 2](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/A1pYaE05YOL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Forgotten goodie. *by C***Z on April 1, 2026* Oldie but goodie! Very different take on Syfy. Really good actors who are British icons - in their youth here! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Zardoz does it! *by M***E on February 4, 2004* No matter how critical an attitude I bring to it, I simply cannot dislike this film! Its premises, performances, and images are a godsend to a lover of "thinking person's" science fiction. I have no idea what previous reviewers mean when they talk of a hippie sensibility pervading the film. I saw it twice during its initial release and have just seen it again after twenty some odd years; it still holds its special relevance and the satire still connects. Plus, it's a pleasure watching a science fiction film without a surfeit of gratuitous computer generated effects. Most of the story is told with the use of splendid cinematography, interesting sets, and a simple straightforward script with a few compelling twists. Some may argue that the actors' lines are trite; they are, but to wonderful biting effect. The masks worn by the Exterminators are marvelous, as is the floating head of Zardoz. The aerial photography and sound effects are also used to great effect near the beginning of the film to set the stage for the entrance into the Vortex and Zed's "big boy adventure" among the Immortals. Though Sean Connery's Zed chews most of the scenery, my favorite character was Friend played by John Alderton, especially after he received his sentence and was banished to the world of the aging Renegades. Hilarious! Even the time lapse ending was effective. Normally this device is used as a crutch for a filmmaker simply because he/she doesn't know how to develop a denouement. Not here; it works perfectly! This DVD release is crisp and vibrant with stunningly saturated colors and fine sound. I concur with a previous reviewer; this has to be the finest use of the Second Movement of Beethoven's Seventh Symphony ever in a film, heard in both it's original scoring and in a special choral arrangement--slow, stately and at a funeral march tempo, the way it should be despite the composer's score markings! I haven't heard the director's narrative track and am in no hurry to do so; the film speaks well for itself. In my opinion, this rightfully ranks as a "must have" for fans of lovingly-made, imaginative, and thought-provoking films. Bring an open mind and a sense of humor along with the popcorn; you're in for a treat! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A Sci Fi. Fairy Tale *by C***. on April 4, 2026* Basically Sci Fi. A Fairy tale. Utopian society where there is no death. They send the people to make infractions to the society banned to an old foiks home. By Aging but not killing them. The leaders of the society are bored being not able to die. They are reborn. A magician amongst them concocts a plan to disrupt the society. Zardoz is his name together with the outsiders they destroy the society and its. immortality. This story is an allegory and has a plot twist. you wont see coming. Marvelous every one should see this. 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