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27 April 1975 (USA)
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In The Year 2000 Hit And Run Driving Is No Longer A Felony. It's The National Sport! more
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A champion of a brutal cross-country car race of the future where pedestrians are run down for points...
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Death Race 2 Is Happening
(From ReelzChannel. 17 November 2009, 8:25 AM, PST)
Death Race 2: Casting Now
(From Screenrush. 16 November 2009, 3:26 AM, PST)
(From ReelzChannel. 17 November 2009, 8:25 AM, PST)
Death Race 2: Casting Now
(From Screenrush. 16 November 2009, 3:26 AM, PST)
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Carmageddon, or how I learned to stop worrying and love those crazy seventies
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | David Carradine | ... | Frankenstein |
 | Simone Griffeth | ... | Annie Smith |
 | Sylvester Stallone | ... | Machine Gun Joe Viterbo |
| Mary Woronov | ... | Calamity Jane |
| Roberta Collins | ... | Matilda the Hun |
 | Martin Kove | ... | Nero the Hero |
| Louisa Moritz | ... | Myra |
| Don Steele | ... | Junior Bruce (as The Real Don Steele) |
| Joyce Jameson | ... | Grace Pander |
| Carle Bensen | ... | Harold |
| Sandy McCallum | ... | Mr. President |
| Paul Laurence | ... | Special agent |
| Harriet Medin | ... | Thomasina Paine |
| Vince Trankina | ... | Lt. Fury |
| Bill Morey | ... | Deacon |
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USA:84 min | Argentina:84 min
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Color (Metrocolor)
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1.33 : 1 more
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Iceland:12 |
Australia:M (TV rating) |
Netherlands:18 (original rating) |
Argentina:18 (re-rating) |
Argentina:X (original rating) |
Netherlands:16 (re-rating) |
France:-16 |
Australia:R |
Canada:13+ (Quebec) |
Canada:AA (Ontario) |
Finland:K-18 |
Germany:16 (2002) |
Sweden:15 |
UK:18 |
USA:R |
West Germany:18 (original rating) |
Canada:R (Manitoba) |
UK:X (original rating) |
Norway:18 (DVD release) (2003) (uncut version) |
Norway:16 (video) (1988) (heavily cut) |
Norway:(Banned) (1976-2003) (cinema release) |
Canada:A (Nova Scotia) (original rating) |
Canada:14 (Nova Scotia) (re-rating) (2002)
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Several of the cars in the movie are re-bodied Volkswagens, including a VW Karmann-Ghia (Matilda's Buzz Bomb). The white Resistance Army car that chases Frankenstein very briefly before crashing and blowing up is a 1965 or 1966 Ford Mustang. Nero's car was based on a Fiat 850 Spider, and Frankenstein's on a Chevrolet Corvette.
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Continuity: Although the movie refers to the country as the "United Provinces of America", a banner can be seen near the start of the movie as Machine Gun Joe pulls into the raceway that says "United States".
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Referenced in "Futurama: The Honking (#3.1)" (2000)
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'Mad Max' meets the 'Running Man' and they both drive over miss Daisy. 'Death Race 2000' is a disconcerting smithereen job, but also fun. It is unprobable to say the least: 'Frankenstein' as the embodiment of national virtue? Nice thought over a dose of mescaline maybe. With unbelievable music too. Everything seems 2 B possible: ethical correct splatter comedies? You've got it. The acting in this supposed SF (caricatures of the immoral society of the future) is absolutely horrible (apart from Carradine and Griffeth). Add some black humor and non-existing emotions and you have Death Race 2000: the obscure cult flick in which Sly gets slapped around some as driver Machine-Gun Joe Viterbo. And retrospectively one of his best roles, besides 'First Blood' and 'Rocky'.
Luckily there was room in the rating for some graphical splatter and nudity, which is why this has become a cult movie. And fat chance the uncut version will be banned where I live. It is more than questionable if the story is really about the fear of America becoming that chauvinistic and drenched in bloodlust. I get the impression that most of it is just a glorification of violence. But in a more thoroughly humorous way than e.g. Wild Bunch (1969) et al. Imagine the American president has a summer house in Peking, or driver Mathilda the Hun has a nazi-navigator Herman the German...
DR2k was appropriately filmed by the great cinematographer Tak Fujimoto (Badlands, Silence of the lambs, Sixth Sense, and last but not least Ferris Bueller's day off). Good for Paul Bartel that he made Death Race 2000 before George Miller made Mad Max (1978), because it would have been a completely obsolete cartoon otherwise: something like Evil Knievel vs Dick Dastardly. Nevertheless DR2k is quite enjoyable. This movie may be inspired by 'the Cars that ate Paris' (Weir, 1974) and seemed to have inspired 'Carmageddon' (VG) and Mad Max of course. Guys, it's been real. Jesus Chrysler, I'd almost rate this 6/10.