12 Sci-Fi Movies That NOBODY Understands

Come on now—they can’t all be good films, can they?

Directed—somehow—by Deliverance and Point Blank helmer John Boorman, 1974’s Zardoz is positive proof that the director should have stuck to simpler stories. And it’s just as well the film proves this, because there’s pretty much no way to work out whatever else it’s supposed to say.

The surreal tales of “Eternals” and “Brutals”, this flick follows a perpetually and understandably confused Sean Connery as he tries to uncovers the meaning behind the generations-long battle between the two groups, who act as obvious metaphors for the ruling and working class in a story whose dystopia is otherwise impossible to make sense of. There’s the eponymous flying rock, an AI, some Beethoven, and eventually even a Wizard of Oz reference, but don’t try to decipher it all—you’ll be far too busy staring at Connery’s distracting g-string.