In one outlandish scene a woman racer spots a mother with her children having a picnic in the country. Because of that, the outlandish scenes of running down and killing pedestrians not only works, but works but rocks.
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What makes Death Race 2000 work is that the movie never takes itself seriously. There's also a home bred terrorist group killing the racers in attempt to stop the violence.įrom the start of the movie until the end, my attention was held fast by the satirical wit and sheer spectacle of bizarre looking racing cars and topless women which makes such a strange film satisfying. Annie has more on her mind than just winning however. His navigator is the lovely Annie Smith (Simone Griffeth) who's as talented in bed as she is working on a car's engine. The returning champion is Frankenstein (David Carradine) a veteran of many Death Races who has been so badly injured in past wrecks that he must wear a mask to hide his gruesome face. A cross country car race where contestants score points by running down and killing pedestrian. President, keeps the people happy by giving them what they want.he gives them the Death Race. In the year 2000.the distant future, Americans have become overly obsessed with graphic violence as entertainment (go figure!). Allan Arkush was brought in to conduct reshoots either because Niciphor quit or was fired on Carradine’s orders.Cast: David Carradine, Sylvester Stallone, Simone Griffeth Both Carradine and director Nicholas Niciphor have differing views about what occurred but both agree that Niciphor conflicted with Carradine and had a tyrannical manner, that Carradine assaulted Niciphor and that various of the crew, in particular Claudia Jennings (and possibly Carradine) were under the influence of drugs during shooting. Corman wanted it made in 21 days based around David Carradine’s availability. The film was apparently a mess behind the scenes. The film clearly considered this would be enough in itself to maintain interest and this gives Deathsport extremely limited appeal beyond those that are motocross fans. Worse the middle of the film turns into a lot of buzzing around the desert on motorbikes.
The same motorbike stunts and explosions are repeated several times.
The film has a single matte painting of a futuristic city background for the arena and uses it several times over – and obviously so. Ultimately, it is this and the cheapness of the production that does Deathsport in. The Range Guides – with Deneer (Claudia Jennings) and Kaz Osay (David Carradine) on the left In actuality though, it is just David Carradine back in Kung Fu (1972-5) mode uttering imponderable epigrams – and here the prose really does become quite purple. While it uses the post-holocaust landscape instead of outer space as its playground, the film otherwise features the same type of story involving rayguns, heroes with mystical training, helmeted villains in black, and with motorcycle chases in lieu of interstellar dogfights.Ĭertainly, the idea of the mystical Range Guides gives the Mad Max copy a more intriguing and potentially substantial theme than usual. Of course, what Deathsport was trying to imitate at the time was Star Wars (1977). Without even realising it at the time, Deathsport prefigured Mad Max 2 (1981) and its trend-setting depiction of the post-holocaust landscape as a realm inhabited by motorised crazies and loner heroes engaged in gladiatorial combat. Although it wasn’t a Death Race sequel, this was a connection that Corman was more than happy to play upon in pre-release. In 1978, Roger Corman and David Carradine paired up again for Deathsport, which many took to be a sequel to Death Race 2000. This proved to be a surprising box-office success and later became the basis of Paul W.S. Producer Roger Corman and star David Carradine made Death Race 2000 (1975), a quirky attempt to capitalise on the success of the future sports theme of the larger-budgeted Rollerball (1975).
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