Underneath his leather face mask, Frankenstein hides a secret: he is in fact legend, not man. More a legend than a man, Frankenstein is the product of Swiss engineers whose bionic limbs and replacement body parts keep him going after each crash. The always-a-bridesmaid-never-a-bride 'Machine Gun' Joe Viterbo (Sylvester Stallone) rails angrily against the champ, Frankenstein (David Carradine). The racers gather at the starting point: colorful characters like Nero the Hero (Martin Kove), Matilda the Hun (Roberta Collins), and Calamity Jane (Mary Woronov). It is a brutal past-time, with body counts bringing the murderers fame and fortune.

As the President himself proudly boasts, it is a contest that upholds the grand American tradition of no holds barred! Racers compete not just to be first across the amber waves of ruin and purple mountain travesties, but to earn points by killing pedestrians in their path.

Nowhere is this more evident than the country's favorite sport, the Trans-Continental Road Race. It's an every-man-for-himself sort of unfairground, where the smallest and most vulnerable can count on no special protection. SYNOPSIS: Fear the future: A grim place ruled by the cruel law of winner take all. Not many B-pictures have that kind of lasting pop cultural resonance-then again, Death Race 2000 is not your average B-picture. A gory hit-n-run fulmination, a sci-fi parable about dehumanization, a scathing libel against a TV-addled culture amused by the sufferings of others, or just a popcorn freakshow to pass a lazy Saturday afternoon-you name it, Death Race 2000's got it.Įven today, drivers still sardonically joke about running over pedestrians for points. You got your satire in my exploitation flick-no, you got your exploitation flick in my satire! Said to be futuristic, but not too unlike our own world, Death Race 2000 (1975) mixes pulp and politics with drunken glee. In a genre too often bloated with pretension, B-movie impresario Roger Corman and his team of drive-in auteurs turned in a free-wheeling political burlesque wrapped inside a greasy circus of T&A.

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