Death Race 2000

(1975)

★ 6.2 IMDb · 589 votes

Genres: Action, Sci-Fi, Comedy

Year: 1975

Runtime: 80 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Пол Бартель

Cast: Дэвид Кэррадайн, Simone Griffeth, Сильвестр Сталлоне, Мэри Воронов, Roberta Collins, Мартин Коув, Луиза Мориц, Don Steele, Joyce Jameson, Carle Bensen

Plot

In a boorish future, the government sponsors a popular, but bloody, cross-country race in which points are scored by mowing down pedestrians. Five teams, each comprised of a male and female, compete using cars equipped with deadly weapons. Frankenstein, the mysterious returning champion, has become America's hero, but this time he has a passenger from the underground resistance.

In the year 2000 - against the backdrop of social turmoil, political unrest, and rampant anarchy - a now-totalitarian United Provinces of America supports a brutal annual event to pacify the masses: the infamous Annual Transcontinental Road Race. 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. Who will score the most points in the violent Death Race 2000?