New racers introduced here included Von Dutch, the Alcoholic, Happy the Clown, Steppenwolf, Rick Rhesus and Harry Carrie. The comic book series, as the title indicates, takes place 20 years after the film ended and deals with Frankenstein's return to the race. The pair had already worked together on several comics, including Marshal Law. It was written by Pat Mills of 2000 AD fame, with art by Kevin O'Neill.
#Death race 2000 film series
Cast and crew Principal cast Characterĭeathsport is a 1978 science fiction B-movie produced by Roger Corman, directed by Allan Arkush and Nicholas NiciphorĪ comic book sequel series titled Death Race 2020 was published in April-November 1995 by Roger Corman's short-lived Roger Corman's Cosmic Comics imprint. It also stars Zach McGowan, Christine Marzano, Danny Glover, and Lorina Kamburova.
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The reward for the drivers is that if one racer wins five races, they will be granted their freedom by Warden Hennessey.ĭeath Race: Beyond Anarchy is a sequel to the 2008 film, Death Race, being directed by Don Michael Paul and features the return of Danny Trejo and Frederick Koehler. The racers, along with their navigators, drive a three-part race over three days on a closed track at Terminal Island, with various pressure plates: swords activate the racers' offensive weapons, shields activate defensive weapons such as oil, smoke, and napalm, and skulls ("Death Heads") activate deadly metal traps which rise up from the track. Claire Hennessey (Joan Allen), the warden of Terminal Island Penitentiary, earns profits from the pay-per-view broadcast of a modern gladiator game called the "Death Race", with the prisoners as the players. In the year 2012, the economy of the US collapses, causing unemployment and crime rates to skyrocket, and a sharp increase of convicted criminals, which leads to privatized prisons for profit. Anderson stated in the DVD commentary that he thought of the film as a prequel) of Death Race 2000. 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 States’ economy and once-great postal service).Īmong the crassest laugh-lines in the cinema is the reveal that Frankenstein has had his hand replaced with a detachable bomb (‘what do you call that?’ ‘a hand grenade’), and there are deservedly classic performances from Stallone (‘loved by thousands, hated by millions’) and Woronov as the craziest of the racers.Death Race is a 2008 remake (although director Paul W.
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It has a comic strip premise which is neverthless wholly credible in a sick sort of way, with character-themed race car drivers – 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) – 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 (‘of course it’s violent, that’s how we like it, violent, violent, violent!’). A distinctively crass, hugely enjoyable sick satire from director Paul Bartel, working for uber-producer Roger Corman – allegedly, Bartel kept thinking up more and wilder jokes, while Corman insisted more and more people got run over.