Let our editors help you find what's trending and what's worth your time. The film takes place in a dystopian American society in the year 2000, where the murderous Transcontinental Road Race has become a form of national entertainment.

Death Race 2000 is a 1975 American science fiction sports film produced by Roger Corman, directed by Paul Bartel, and starring David Carradine. The recent big-budget вЂњre-imaginingвЂќ of Paul BartelвЂ™s tacky but wacky original lost all the subversive wit and cartoonish outrageousness that made the property a drive-in cult classic in the first place. ', In a 1982 interview, Bartel said, 'Most of my guilty pleasures in this film were ripped out by the roots by Roger Corman before the film ever saw the light of day and substituted with crushed heads and blood squibs. Roger Ebert gave the film zero stars in his review, deriding its violence and lamenting its appeal to small children. The setting is the near future where a totalitarian regime keep the populace happy with a violent and extremely popular sport of hit and run car racing.

Death Race 2000 is a satirical, post-apocalyptic, dystopian examination of a popular murder-sport taking place 25 years in the future. In the far reaches of space, a small crew, 20 years into their solitary mission, find things beginning to go hilariously wrong. Scoring points simply by running over unsuspecting pedestrians, the national champion driver, Frankenstein, has to race against fast contestants such as the beautiful cowgirl killer, Calamity Jane the neo-Nazi, Matilda the Hun the Roman gladiator, Nero the Hero, and, first and foremost, the Chicago thug and ambitious challenger, Machine Gun Joe. Biological war has decimated life on Earth. Machine Gun Joe Viterbo, the second-place champion, is the most determined of all to defeat Frankenstein and win the race. Death Race 2000 isnвЂ™t the sharp satire Corman thinks it is, but itвЂ™s fun.

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