Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 106 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Violence
- Strong
- Frights
- Mild
Why tonight?
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
The story
In the far future, a savage trained only to kill finds a way into the community of bored immortals that alone preserves humanity's achievements.
- future
- immortality
- dystopia
- murder
- savage
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Sally Anne Newton — Avalow
- Niall Buggy — Arthur Frayn / Zardoz
- Bosco Hogan — George Saden
- Jessica Swift — Apathetic
- Bairbre Dowling — Star
- Christopher Casson — Old Scientist
- Reginald Jarman — Death (voice)
- John Boorman — Farming Brutal Shot by Zed (uncredited)
- Katrine Boorman — Young Eternal (uncredited)
- Telsche Boorman — Young Eternal (uncredited)
- David de Keyser — Tabernacle (voice) (uncredited)
- Directed
- John Boorman
- Written
- John Boorman
Production
- Rating
- 5.9 / 10 · 537 ratings
- Studio
- John Boorman Productions, 20th Century Fox
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
