"The gun is good. The penis is evil." So sayeth Zardoz, a giant floating stone head that is worshipped as a god by the aptly named Brutals, the primitive remnants of humanity who roam the plains of post-apocalypse Earth in the year 2293. When a smarter-than-the-average Brutal named Zed (Sean Connery) stows away in the Zardoz head on one of its flights, he discovers that his revered god is a sham concocted by a passive, immortal race called the Eternals to pacify and rule their bestial inferiors — which makes our loincloth-clad hero fighting mad, and makes him a potential liberator for a rebellious group of Eternals looking to destroy the complacent tyranny of their "perfect" society. Throwing in every sci-fi trope it can get its hands on — Time travel! Psychic powers! Genetic engineering! Totalitarian dystopias! — and combining them with some of the most self-indulgent and downright crazy visuals in cinema history (we're talking Sean frickin' Connery in a red diaper and bandoliers crazy), Zardoz is the very definition of a gonzo cult classic. "A trip into a future that seems ruled by perpetually stoned set decorators" (Roger Ebert).