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Particularly funny is a creepy cross between Howard Cosell and Walter Cronkite, played by Carle Bensen. The politics of the film is intriguing, with a fair amount of prescience in depicting single-party rule, a President in a bubble (although here he actually rules from a foreign country), a tendency to blame the French for everything, and an utterly vacuous and compliant media that focuses primarily on cheerleading for the ironically named Bipartisan Party. The ingenious scoring system that allows for higher points for children and the elderly has become a part of the vernacular, only one of the significant influences of this rather subversive and bitterly satirical picture. Although there's a fair amount of blood, it's not a gorefest or too explicit in its mayhem many of the killings are played for comic effect, making the viewer a co-conspirator by being entertained just like the captive audience. President (Sandy McCallum).įrom a violence standpoint, the picture doesn't disappoint, with an ever-escalating body count. But the racers aren't just in danger from each other a rebel group led by Thomasina Paine (Harriet Medin) seeks to disrupt the race and discredit Mr. The key players are Frankenstein (David Carradine), a reassembled racer who has legions of fans gangsterish Machine Gun Joe Viterbo (Sylvester Stallone) the cowgirl Calamity Jane (Mary Woronov) Nazi from Milwaukee Matilda the Hun (Roberta Collins) and narcissistic Nero the Hero. In a dystopian then-future Year 2000, the greatest form of entertainment in the fascist United Provinces of America is the Transcontinental Road Race, which pits five cars in a race to cross the country to New LA, amassing varying points for everyone they manage to run over on the way. The result still holds up extremely well, even though 2000 is now in the past. Those who came in droves to see Death Race 2000, produced by quickie auteur Roger Corman, certainly weren't disappointed in any of those respects, but they may have been surprised to also get a fair amount of political satire and dark comedy to go with it.
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MPAA Rating: R for (violence, gore, nudity, sexuality)ĭVD ReviewNothing gratified the drive-in market of the 1970s like fast cars, gratuitous violence, and a smattering of sex and nudity.
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Other Stars: Louisa Moritz, Don Steele, Joyce Jameson, Harriet Medin, Fred Grandy, Carle Bensen, Sandy McCallum, John Landis Stars: David Carradine, Simone Griffeth, Sylvester Stallone, Mary Woronov, Roberta Colins, Martin Kove "I have also given you the most popular sporting event in the history of mankind-The Transcontinental Road Race, which upholds the American tradition of No Holds Barred!"