#Film death race 2000 movie#
#Film death race 2000 drivers#
#Film death race 2000 driver#

#Film death race 2000 movie#

This movie may be inspired by 'the Cars that ate Paris' (Weir, 1974) and seemed to have inspired 'Carmageddon' (VG) and Mad Max of course. Good for Paul Bartel that he made Death Race 2000 before George Miller made Mad Max (1978), because it would have been a completely obsolete cartoon otherwise: something like Evil Knievel vs Dick Dastardly.

#Film death race 2000 driver#

Imagine the American president has a summer house in Peking, or driver Mathilda the Hun has a nazi-navigator Herman the German.Р”ВR2k was appropriately filmed by the great cinematographer Tak Fujimoto (Badlands, Silence of the lambs, Sixth Sense, and last but not least Ferris Bueller's day off). But in a more thoroughly humorous way than e.g. I get the impression that most of it is just a glorification of violence. It is more than questionable if the story is really about the fear of America becoming that chauvinistic and drenched in bloodlust. And fat chance the uncut version will be banned where I live.

Luckily there was room in the rating for some graphical splatter and nudity, which is why this has become a cult movie. And retrospectively one of his best roles, besides 'First Blood' and 'Rocky'. Add some black humor and non-existing emotions and you have Death Race 2000: the obscure cult flick in which Sly gets slapped around some as driver Machine-Gun Joe Viterbo. The acting in this supposed SF (caricatures of the immoral society of the future) is absolutely horrible (apart from Carradine and Griffeth). Everything seems 2 B possible: ethical correct splatter comedies? You've got it. It is unprobable to say the least: 'Frankenstein' as the embodiment of national virtue? Nice thought over a dose of mescaline maybe. 'Death Race 2000' is a disconcerting smithereen job, but also fun.

'Mad Max' meets the 'Running Man' and they both drive over miss Daisy. This is a rip roarin' non-stop action-packed black comedy that is an absolute hoot! I can't recommend this one highly enough.Death Race 2000 is set in the near future where the ultimate sporting event is the deathrace where pedestrians are run down for points.

#Film death race 2000 drivers#

The other drivers include such cult figures as Mary Woronov ('Chopping Mall'), Roberta Collins ('Caged Heat'), Martin Kove ('The Karate Kid'), Leslie McRae ('Blood Orgy Of The She Devils') and Fred Grandy ('The Love Boat'). The champion of the people is Frankenstein (David Carradine - 'Boxcar Bertha', 'Q') who has to race against a flamboyant group of rivals, led by his mortal enemy Machine-Gun Joe Viterbo (Sly Stallone!) who is intent on knocking him off the top. The setting is the near future where a totalitarian regime keep the populace happy with a violent and extremely popular sport of hit and run car racing. Anytime you're down just put 'Death Race 200' on and you're guaranteed to be cheered up! Directed by the late Paul Bartel ('Eating Raoul', 'Lust In The Dust')), co-produced by b-grade legend Roger Corman ('Bloody Mama', 'House Of Usher'), and co-written by Charles Griffith ('The Wild Angels', 'Little Shop Of Horrors'), this is simply one of the most enjoyable and entertaining exploitation movies of all time. Based loosely on the short story The Racer/Race of Death by Ib Melchior, Death Race 2000 is a brutal. 'Death Race 2000', like 'Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls', 'The Omega Man', 'Repo Man' and 'Rock'n'Roll High School', is one of those dependable all time favourite trash classics that I watch regularly and never fail to get a smile out of. Death Race 2000 is a cult classic of a film from 1975.