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Deathrace 2000
1975
More delightfully sick humor from Bartel (EATING RAOUL). In a boorish future, the government sponsors a popular, but bloody, cross-country race in which points are scored by mowing down pedestrians--with bonus points for the elderly! Five teams, each comprised of a male and female, compete using cars equipped with deadly .. Read more
| Starring | David Carradine, Sylvester Stallone, Simone Griffeth, Dan O'Herlihy |
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| Director | Paul Bartel |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Thriller |
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Deathrace 2000
More delightfully sick humor from Bartel (EATING RAOUL). In a boorish future, the government sponsors a popular, but bloody, cross-country race in which points are scored by mowing down pedestrians--with bonus points for the elderly! Five teams, each comprised of a male and female, compete using cars equipped with deadly weapons. Frankenstein, the mysterious returning champion, has become America's hero, but this time he has a passenger from the underground resistance. A legendary cult film.
| Starring | David Carradine, Sylvester Stallone, Simone Griffeth, Dan O'Herlihy |
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| Director | Paul Bartel |
| Studio | OPTIMUM |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 16 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Thriller |
| Language | English |
| Released | DVD: 16 Feb 2004 Production year: 1975 |
| Format | DVD |
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An action-packed satire set in the America of the future, which features a nationally televised road race in which drivers score points for ramming pedestrians. The event is staged to pacify the ravenous public's lust for blood and prevent the overthrow of the totalitarian president. Paul Bartel's light-hearted direction keeps this demolition derby on an amusing track, despite the graphic violence, and there are digs at US political apathy and the nation's obsession with sports. With its cast of cartoon caricatures — David Carradine is a bionic Frankenstein, Sylvester Stallone is Machine Gun Joe Viterbo — this Roger Corman production is a lot more entertaining than its more serious and expensive contemporary, ROLLERBALL.
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The perfect example of a 'corporation' movie; dreamed up as a quickie rival to Rollerball, it follows its big brother... read more on Time Out
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7 out of 7 people found this review helpful
Cult Classic
This film is a cult classic, Set in the futre year of 2000 and worth watching for the comedy value alone. The scene where the geriatrics are left outside the local hospital to be run over is just hillarious. The lead character dresses up like the Gimp from Pulp Fiction and any acts of sabotage against the race gets blamed on 'the French & their stinky European cousins'.
They really don't make them like they used to.
It also has Sylvester Stallone starring in it before he became famous, and directly influenced the computer game Carmagedden. -
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Death Race 2000
In the near future the ultimate sporting event is the deathrace. Contestants get to score points for running people down as they speed across the country. The sport has crazed fans who sacrifice themselves to the drivers. An overt agency is trying to bring an end to the immoral deathrace and has infiltrated one of their followers in to the race as a navigator. In the end of the race the lives of the competitors, the President and the deathrace itself are in peril.
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David Carradine 1936-2009
- 05 Jun 2009
A forthright and intelligent actor who wasn’t afraid to speak his mind, David Carradine was found dead in his hotel room in Bangkok on 4th June 2009, after what seems to have been an act of auto-asphyxiation. The actor will be remembered most vividly for the title role he played in Quentin Tarantino’s two volume revenge opus “Kill Bill” – a part he inherited when the director’s first choice, Warren Beatty, pointed out that if Tarantino wanted him to act so... Read more
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