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Ironically, all the violence in this R-rated film could today almost be shown on free commercial television completely intact, while its extensive and superfluous nudity would undoubtedly have to be cut. When it was new, the basic concept of scoring points by deliberately hitting innocent bystanders, coupled with brief but gory flashes of this mayhem, was extremely shocking, generating a mixture of nervous laughter and amused approval from audiences. Although the attempt to kill Frankenstein fails, Annie discovers that her reticent partner might just be sympathetic to the cause.īased on a story by Ib Melchior ( Robinson Crusoe on Mars, Planet of the Vampires), Death Race 2000's screenplay was written by longtime Corman collaborator Charles Griffith ( The Little Shop of Horrors, Attack of the Crab Monsters) and Robert Thorn (TV's The Defenders, Corman's Bloody Mama), who along with director Paul Bartel ( Eating Raoul) infused the picture with almost endless satire, which wasn't quite what Corman had in mind.
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(However, just how this relates to a final score and a winning driver isn't explained, making the race and its rules needlessly confusing.) As the cars begin mowing down unfortunate victims the resistance's plan becomes clear: they hope to assassinate Frankenstein and replace him with one of their agents so that the agent can in turn assassinate the President (Sandy McCallum), introduced in a weird homage to A Matter of Life and Death.
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As Frankenstein's navigators have the same mortality rate as Dirty Harry Callahan's partners, Annie Smith (Simone Griffeth), actually the granddaughter of Thomasina Paine (Harriet Medin), leader of the resistance movement, rides shotgun.įor a low-budget movie, there's some pretty satisfactory editing in the opening scenes among the principal actors and their cars, footage from a real racing event at the Ontario (California) Motor Speedway, and a modestly effective if incredibly garish and phony-looking matte painting of a futuristic New York City.Ībout 15 minutes into the race, its primary appeal is shockingly revealed: drivers are awarded points for hitting and killing innocent pedestrians, with senior citizens worth the most.
This being a low-budget ($300,000) movie, the big race is limited to just five contestants and their navigators: Calamity Jane's (Mary Woronov) vehicle resembles a bull Nero's (Martin Kove) a lion Nazi-influenced Matilda the Hun (Roberta Collins she rides with Herman the German, amusing played by Fred Grandy) a V-1 rocket and Machine Gun Joe Viterbo (Sylvester Stallone), who looks like Al Capone, and drives a sedan-like vehicle with knives and machine guns mounted on its hood.īut by far the most popular driver is the mysterious Frankenstein (David Carradine, in his first role after walking off the set of Kung Fu), covered from head-to-toe in black leather and a mask, supposedly to hide the myriad scars, burns, and stitches from his many spectacular crashes. Following a military coup and global financial collapse blamed on the French (how prescient is that?), an international bipartisan government has placated its citizenry with an annual transcontinental road race.
Notably short (79 1/2 minutes), Death Race 2000 is a darkly humorous sci-fi thriller-satire set in a dystopian future, one that in some ways is more eerily accurate than George Orwell's 1984. The transfer looks very good and the disc is loaded for bear with fun and informative extra features. It's also nice to see the film presented in a form frankly much superior to how titles like this looked back then, at decaying downtown grindhouses or at equally rundown drive-in theaters way out in the sticks.
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Arguably producer Roger Corman's best-known film made during his New World period (1970-83), Death Race 2000 (1976) nostalgically encapsulates the bygone days of the drive-in movie with its lurid blend of sex and violent action, and though it doesn't quite live up to its cult classic reputation that's okay - it's still a lot of fun anyway.
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