The Final Sacrifice (also known as Quest for the Lost City) is a 1990 independent Canadian adventure film produced and directed by Tjardus Greidanus, a freshman at Southern Alberta Institute of Technology, and stars Christian Malcolm and Bruce J. Mitchell.
Teenage Troy McGreggor finds a map belonging to his late father, Thomas, who was murdered seven years earlier.
Thomas, an archaeologist, met his untimely death after becoming involved with a mysterious cult led by a sinister man with supernatural powers known only as Satoris.
Pipper, recognizing the name, reveals that he was a close friend as well as an expedition partner of Thomas' and has been hiding in the woods from Satoris for the past seven years.
He later explains that the cultists are the last descendants of an ancient and advanced race called the Ziox, who inhabited the area long before the Indians, and whose civilization was destroyed by their god in a month-long rainstorm after they turned to worshiping an unholy idol.
According to Pipper, the Ziox built a great city that was more advanced than "anything the ancient Egyptians or Romans ever knew", but which sank into the ground due to the flooding.
Pipper gives Rowsdower his horse and a rifle, directing him to the ancient Ziox sacrifice site that he was able to decipher from Troy's map.
With the idol destroyed, the lost city of the Ziox does indeed rise from the ground, and Satoris' cult breaks up as its members are freed from his evil influence.
The Final Sacrifice arose as the project of a film student named Tjardus Greidanus, who was enrolled in the filmmaker program at the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology.
In the episode, Michael Nelson, Tom Servo and Crow T. Robot poke fun at the film's characters (mostly Troy McGreggor and Zap Rowsdower) and Canadian stereotypes.