#DEATH RACE 2000 MOVIE#
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This is the best cross-country road-race movie-and the most Now hereвЂ™s Joe Bob Briggs with todayвЂ™s feature attraction Death Race 2000:

#DEATH RACE 2000 MOVIE#

It's 100% Weird!Д«y the way, you may remember Hamilton Camp from the TNT MonsterVision 100% Weird movie Arena, not to be confused with Roger CormanвЂ™s flick The Arena, which was filmed in Russia and set in a sadistic/sexy future. The film is directed by Harry Hurwitz, the man responsible for the cult favorite, The Projectionist, and features Christopher Lee in a supporting role. This time around he plays an ex-Hollywood stuntman who teams up with Playboy photographer Stockard Channing on a trans-African auto race. What is it about road movies and David Carradine? He kept the pedal to the metal in both Cannonball and Death Race 2000 and here he is behind the wheel once again in Safari 3000. Come to think of it, Carradine also starred in the drive-in movie вЂњCannonballвЂќ as a racer who is killed when a beer can rolls under the brake pedal just as he runs out of bridge on a highway under construction вЂ“ no relation to the big-budget movie Cannonball Run, which just happened to come out around the same time. There have been no further sequels, though I suppose you could say that the Lee and Camp characters bear an uncanny resemblance to the Paul Williams and Pat McCormick duo in all three Smokey & The Bandit movies (1977-83). You can say two things for this movie, itвЂ™s in focus and in color. Somewhere along the line, Carradine picks up hitch-hiker Stockard Channing, and Ian Yule rounds out the main supporting cast. Thus ends Safari 3000, available on video but not DVD. At one point, smiling natives pull CarradineвЂ™s car to the finish line in an unintentionally disturbing image. At one point they hit a chicken with the car and a tribal judge rises out of the floor of a hut (a scene later used in the Dan Aykroyd film вЂњNothing But TroubleвЂќ), demanding that they pay for the loss, though Carradine notices that the accident victim appears to be a frozen chicken tossed into the road for them to hit. And thatвЂ™s pretty much one of the highlights of the movie, which just sort of meanders around for 91 minutes to fill time until the credits come up at the end.

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Christopher Lee and Hamilton Camp get out, wearing giant Darth Vader helmets, and try to hire him as their driver in the race. It starts with Carradine racing down a road.

Carradine plays an ex-Hollywood stuntman who finds himself in an international race across darkest Africa. It bears more resemblance to CormanвЂ™s 1960s вЂњHellвЂ™s AngelsвЂќ movies than to Death Race 2000.Дespite the title, this oneвЂ™s set in the present. ItвЂ™s set in the year 2078, and has the Ranger Guides ( Mad Max Highway Patrol/Texas Rangers on motorcycles) opposed by a vicious gang called the Statesmen. This one has motorcycles with riders wielding light-sabers ( Star Wars was still playing in some theaters). Producer Roger Corman came out with a semi-sequel three years later called Deathsport (1978), also starring Carradine. The nasty-looking вЂњDeath RaceвЂќ cars were designed and built by James Powers. Like CormanвЂ™s Carnosaur, вЂњDeath RaceвЂќ came out the same year as a similar movie (Rollerball) in order to piggyback itвЂ™s big-budget publicity. Though Rollerball had better special effects, many fans prefer вЂњDeath Race 2000вЂќ for itвЂ™s nonstop action script. The most vicious of his three biggest rivals is Machine Gun Joe (Stallone), who runs over his own pit crew at the start of the race for extra points.ДЇrankenstein is secretly a member of a radical underground group that wants to end the annual Death Race by blowing up all the entrants, one by one. CarradineвЂ™s character is called Frankenstein because so many body parts have been replaced in past Death Races. This 1975 low-budget movie is better than some of Roger CormanвЂ™s other flicks, at least partly because the two leading racers are played by David Carradine and a young Sly Stallone.

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ItвЂ™s the year 2000, twenty-five years in the future, and the Orwellian government that runs the world channels AmericaвЂ™s aggressions into a sadistic transcontinental race in which racecar drivers get extra points for killing pedestrians, bystanders and each other. Death Race 2000 Monstervision's Joe Bob Briggs Looks At Death Race 2000

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