#Death race 2000 car drivers
#Death race 2000 car driver

At a hospital, nurses place patients in wheelchairs into the road for вЂњEuthanasia Day,вЂќ but Frankenstein veers onto the sidewalk killing the hospital workers instead. Joe makes the first kill by running over a construction worker. Their objective is to race across the United Provinces of America, from New York Memorial Raceway to New Los Angeles, while picking up as many points as possible by running over civilians, or destroying other racers.ДЇrankenstein, a scarred veteran of many races who has been repaired by Swiss doctors between each race, is the odds-on favorite to win, while Machine Gun Joe, a tough Chicago mobster, wants to take him down.

#Death race 2000 car driver

Each team includes a driver and a navigator in a themed car, including Calamity Jane (Mary Woronov) in a Bull car complete with spiked horns, Matilda the Hun (Roberta Collins) and Herman the German (Fred Grandy) in a Neo-Nazi Buzz Bomb, Machine Gun Joe (Sylvester Stallone) and Myra (Louisa Moritz) driving a car with tommy guns and a giant knife, Nero the Hero (Martin Kove) and Cleopatra (Leslie McRay) in a Greek chariot, and Frankenstein (David Carradine) and Annie (Simone Griffeth), in a dragon styled vehicle. Three announcers, an over-the-top radio-styled Junior Bruce (The Real Don Steele), the sympathetic and sycophantic Grace Pander (Joyce Jameson), and the droll and sports-centric Harold (Carle Bensen) introduce the five teams for this yearвЂ™s race. In the dystopian year 2000, the running of the 20th Annual Transcontinental Road Race is about to get underway. Shot obviously on the cheap, with carny-look custom cars (with hood-mounted bullhorns or monster teeth) and dollops of ketchupy splat, it includes many Looney Tunes-style gags as rebel forces attack the race, prompting a great running joke as the state-controlled news media refuse to admit the existence of American dissidents and blame all revolutionary acts on the French (who have apparently wrecked the United StatesвЂ™ economy and once-great postal service).ДЄmong the crassest laugh-lines in the cinema is the reveal that Frankenstein has had his hand replaced with a detachable bomb (вЂwhat do you call that?вЂ™ вЂa hand grenadeвЂ™), and there are deservedly classic performances from Stallone (вЂloved by thousands, hated by millionsвЂ™) and Woronov as the craziest of the racers.Death Race 2000 title card.

#Death race 2000 car drivers

It has a comic strip premise which is neverthless wholly credible in a sick sort of way, with character-themed race car drivers вЂ“ the leather-clad and purportedly scarfaced Frankenstein (Carradine), snarling hood Machine Gun Joe Viterbo (Sylvester Stallone), cowgirl killer Calamity Jane (Mary Woronov) and fun-loving Nazi valkyrie Matilda the Hun (Robert Collins) вЂ“ who seem to have inspired generations of wrestlers and TV gladiators, and hilarious work from Don Steele and Joyce Jameson as the smarmy, hypocritical, fanatical sports commentators who alternately harrass and hail the automotive killers (вЂof course itвЂ™s violent, thatвЂ™s how we like it, violent, violent, violent!вЂ™). A distinctively crass, hugely enjoyable sick satire from director Paul Bartel, working for uber-producer Roger Corman вЂ“ allegedly, Bartel kept thinking up more and wilder jokes, while Corman insisted more and more people got run over.