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#DEATH RACE 2000 THE MOVIE MOVIE#
#DEATH RACE 2000 THE MOVIE DRIVER#
#DEATH RACE 2000 THE MOVIE TV#
#DEATH RACE 2000 THE MOVIE FREE#

#DEATH RACE 2000 THE MOVIE MOVIE#

Clad in black plastic mask and cape, one might accuse the character of ripping off Darth Vader if the movie hadn’t come out two years before Star Wars.

#DEATH RACE 2000 THE MOVIE DRIVER#

The President’s champion in this national sporting spectacle is a half man, half machine driver called Frankenstein. The President of the United States has become something of a Roman Emperor, sating the blood lust of his nation’s denizens by creating the Trans-Continental Road Race, the street melee equivalent of a gladiator competition. What did we do to deserve this? It’s the year 2000 (bear in mind, the movie was made in 1974) and the world is a very weird place. For whatever reason, the man is apparently getting a special DVD collection of his early works released, a sort of B-grade movie lifetime achievement award. Of course, that doesn’t matter since you would likely be driven to stick your head in the oven after just a couple weeks. If you felt the need to mentally abuse yourself you could sit down to a Corman produced project every night for a year and still not be able to get through his entire body of work. I'd certainly recommend Death Race 2000.Roger Corman comes from the school of movie making that favors quantity over quality, unless you’re talking about budget in which case the cheaper the better.

#DEATH RACE 2000 THE MOVIE TV#

Case in point is a brawl between Stallone, shortly to become Rocky, and David Carradine, coming from hit show Kung Fu and later working with Tarantino in Kill Bill, that still somehow feels like something from the 1960s Batman TV Show.

Even the jarring changes in the music smoothly match those of the tone.Įven when the film falls short it has a so bad it's good quality to it. Practical effects, very competent despite the low budget, provide plenty of thrills and spills. The campy feel fits the crass satire of the film perfectly. I saw this recommended on AskReddit as a film to watch with a few beers, and it doesn't disappoint. I'm taking of course about Death Race 2000, the Ultra-violent cult classic about a televised race across a dystopian America where racers earn points by mowing down pedestrians.

#DEATH RACE 2000 THE MOVIE FREE#

However, if you haven't seen a movie in a very long time and are re-discovering it then exceptions may be made.Īmerica's economy in free fall, a lying conman clinging to power with the support of a vicious police state, the people distracted by a rigged contest between deeply flawed challengers played out as grotesque spectacle for their amusement.

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