The context of this film: an hour-long "educational" movie for members or would-be members of the Unarius Academy of Science
, a New Age school and at the time this was made, an alien/personality cult of sorts. Members believe (among other things) that founder Ruth E. Norman, known in the tabloids as "Spaceship Ruthie", was a physical manifestation of God, or at least of the Archangel Uriel. Her late husband Ernest, who started it all, is thought to be Archangel Raphiel (spelled as shown).
The film itself starts out with a hunky and improbably clean-cut caveman named Zan, who is visited by an alien who tells him that humanity has a higher purpose and how they are reincarnated over and over to learn from their experiences. Zan doesn't believe him, so the alien gives him a vision of his past life, in which he was ruler of a planet and joined an evil planet-destroying empire for power.
It's incredibly cheesy, sort of like a New Age Chick Tract with more special effects and fewer threats of eternal punishment.
The film can be watched on YouTube.
Tropes Appearing In This Film:
- As Himself - the co-founder of the Unarians, Ruth E. Norman/Uriel, appears in this film to play Uriel, complete with the infamous gaudy clothes she/he was fond of wearing in her later years.
- Costume Porn - Uriel's costumes (and she has at least half a dozen), if they can be called that, seeing as how she wore the same thing Real Life as well.
- Easy Evangelism - Caveman!Zan accepts everything the alien tells him and has a Jack Chick-esque "conversion" after he gets mind-raped with his past life.
- For the Evulz - there's no real reason given for why The Empire wants to take over the galaxy except for the power and being able to control people.
- Gem-Encrusted - the buttons and controls in Zan's ships are colorful crystalline things.
- Reincarnation - Caveman!Zan was Spaceman!Zan in a past life!
- What Have I Done - Spaceman!Zan wonders this after destroying a planet inhabited by 4.2 billion people.
- Zeerust - the computer reads out in BASIC.
