Every time I am at a traffic lights and someone walks across the road, I always mutter "Fifty Points !". This is where I got it from, classic movie. Cars that Ate Paris is another.
I like watching Ray show these to his kids. I showed my son a lot of these movies you review too and your videos remind me of when my son and I would watch shows and movies like this
53:00 Mark! He told her to toss it out, but her freaking out about it being a "hand" kept her from complying! 😂😅 Ironic! Which body parts freak her out and which don't? 🤔
There was a Death Race video game, but it was banned pretty quickly. The object was to hit people and avoid hitting headstones. When you hit someone they turned into a headstone.
30:55 Mark! I had a college roommate from Tulsa who had a boxed RPG called "Car Wars" with the "Star Wars" logo font. It was inspired by this movie, the first "Mad Max" movie! I've seen the newer movies. I prefer the architecture and prettier women of this movie. 😊
58:47 Mark! People keep saying "popcorn movie" like that. Why? 😮 The only times I don't get popcorn are when I just ate and I'm too full to eat more! Or I don't have the money for it. Or I'm too queasy to eat. Otherwise, I buy popcorn, and I eat it, regardless of the genre. Usually, if I'm early enough, it is all gone before the previews start because I buy the small size the most. 🤔
1:05:57 Mark! "Wacky Racers" an animated cartoon series, predates this movie. If you ate enough breakfast cereal, you could collect the cars! Natalie Wood's sexiest costume is in a car race movie with Tony Curtis as her love interest. 😊 "The Great Race"? 🤔 A good double-feature is "Those Daring Young Men in Their Flying Machines" and "Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies"! By the way! Another double-feature for you! James Garner in: "Support Your Local Gunfighter" & "Support Your Local Sheriff"! 😂😅
The bit where he ignores the senior citizen and takes out the hospital staff instead...priceless! 😂 Here's a fun fact. Mary Woronov who plays "Calimity Jane" Kelly in this movie also appeared early on Babylon 5 Season One as Ko'Dath the Narn aide attached to Ambassador G'Kar. Unfortunately she had a bad reaction to the extensive makeup and had to back out of the role. 😢
Brutally underrated satire comedy. Everyone who likes Idiocracy would appreciate this. And Idiocracy itself is underrated! The rotten SOBs who own media love to bury this stuff deep.
4:19 Mark! Oh, so you missed out on "Kung Fu" and "Kung Fu: The Next Generation" unless the "Next" should be "New"? 🤔 Kenny Rogers has a song called "The Gambler" that eventually got used as the basis for a series of made-for-television movies. They served as a crossover hub for the old television Western series, one of which was "Kung Fu"! Burt Reyinolds made a series of theatrical movies about "The Cannonball Run" and David Carradine may be in at least one, made before or after "Death Race 2000"? 🤔 There was a rival movie called "The Gumball Rally"! 😂 Those comedy movies probably inspired this movie. 🤔 David plays a Navy man in "Gray Lady Down" I think? 🤔 There's more than one submarine movie! "The Neptune Odyssey" comes to mind as well. 🤔 He's in one of them? Unless it is "Raise the Titanic"? 🤔
After DEATH RACE 2000, David Carradine starred in the cross-country road race movie CANNONBALL (aka CARQUAKE), which despite the similar title was not part of the CANNONBALL RUN franchise.
Great flick. I do have it in my DVD collection. There was an arcade game based on the movie back in 1976. This is one of the all-time great cult movies, up there with “Repo Man” and “The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension.” A good cheesy sci-fi movie is “Robinson Crusoe On Mars;” kind of a 60’s version of “The Martian.”
1:00:26 Mark! "Nudity"! Heh. Because of actress Jayne Mansfield, it was taken for granted it would at least be female nudity and most likely blonde at that! But now.... Sigh. Daniel Craig's "Casino Royale" was a big let down with the lack of sexy girl silhouettes dancing in the opening credits montage. 😮 But hey, to be fair, the actor who plays "The Skipper" in "Gilligan's Island" appears in a Western in which he puts on his raggedy long underwear while on his bed, then stands up to reveal a lot more of him than I would think was allowed for men at the time! 😮 I was like, "Why couldn't it have been Ginger or Mary Ann?!" 😢
20:47 Mark! "Cheesey"? Okay, Ray! Maybe you will be the one to finally answer my question?! When something is made of cheese or from cheese or covered in it, I know what it means in the literal context. But in the context that you just used it, why did you use it that way? 🤔 And how different is it from "campy"? 🤔 "Google" gives unsatisfactory answers. 😮
@RKnights ! Oh? Hmm. 🤔 While "Batman" was being labeled as "camp" by commentators on television and by magazine writers, "Cheetos" had a motorcycle riding mouse named "Cheesey Rider" ["Easy Rider"] and by the time he was replaced with the cat, I think I began hearing "cheesey" in place of "campy". I guess it was just a coincidence that so many summer camp movies had been made by then that people thought "camp humor" et cetera was the comedy subgenre they belonged to. 🤔
My sister took me to this at the drive in theater for my 6th birthday. The first movie I remember. It opened for the The Happy Hooker. My sister was great :D
I remember for years after this came out, you'd be in the car with your friends, or your family, and someone, your buddy, your uncle, my mom even, often people who had not even seen the movie, would say something like 'Pedestrian in a crosswalk, 60 points!' as a joke. It was pretty common it seemed. Because of this movie.
The the Jason Statham reboots does not hold a candle to this, as the original is brilliant satire and his versions just had some comedy. Roger Corman did a follow up movie a few years back with that is incredibly funny, though with much less impressive cars and no budget at all,
Corman produced DEATH RACE 2000 to rip off/cash in on the major studio release ROLLERBALL, but in my humble opinion DEATH RACE 2000 is by far the superior film (it was directed by Paul Bartel, who also appears in the film as Frankenstein's surgeon). The Jason Statham reboot - and the sequel and two prequels it spawned - are just meat-headed action movies in comparison (not that there's anything wrong with meat-headed action flicks). The Asylum made DEATH RACERS to cash in on the Statham film, and while it's not a 'good' movie, it at least attempts to capture the satire of Bartel's movie. I consider Corman's own sequel/remake/reboot/whatever DEATH RACE 2050 to be a worthy follow up to the original.
1:03:22 Mark! Hmm. I forget which decade it began during and if it ever ended. But at one point there was a big movement to ban violent sports such as Football and Boxing. This movie may have been a reaction to it? 🤔 The original "Rollerball" movie starring actor James Caan, is an SF classic of the decade it came out during. Roller Derby was still big on television! In the movie, the game was a blood sport, because it had replaced warfare! Corporations took over from governments, because warfare was bad for business and profits! 😮 The remake is just an action movie about an underground extreme sport in Europe somewhere. 🇪🇺 It wasn't sexy either, because it lacked "furniture" girls. Those are girls who live in apartments that are awarded to the best players! Though, the movie looks similar to "Soylent Green" as if designed by the same people. So I may be conflating them. 🤷♂️
26:29 That announcer was doing a bad Howard Cosell voice. Howard Cosell was one of the most controversial sports broadcast personalities in American media but his provocative style and refusal to conform redefined the role of the sports commentator.
THere's a bunch of really grim jokes in this one. :D Looking forward to your reaction on the crotch-wheelie. :D And yes, you're right, this COULD be out of Heavy Metal! Now THAt was some cool weird stuff!
Guys, howdy! 🤠 Good! There are remakes and/or sequels to be seen! Someone took the term "Blood Drive" and punned it as the title for a "SyFy" series in which someone invented automobile motors/engines that use blood as a fuel source! 😮 Hence the title! 😂
That show was so insane that I couldn't believe what I was seeing when it aired. Sadly it never got a second season. Back when SyFy tried to do interesting things.
The series explains the incentive for an alternative fuel source! Ahem. A natural disaster caused the world's largest sinkhole or impact crater, and it took out a lot of fossil fuel sources as it happened! From orbit, it looked like we could see Mother Gaia's interior vagina and surrounding exterior vulva from the Dakotas down to Texas! 🤪 The engines looked like they chewed on their roadkill victims as a part of the conversion process. Collisions weren't required as people dead or alive could be tossed onto the grinders! A school bus full of cheerleaders was used as a fuel source by one team. They were trying to hitch a ride but got used as fuel instead!
The car at the end with the sick ass canopy is a kit car alternately known as a Nova Sterling, Eureka, or Purvis (Pervis). By styling alone, the car is absolutely bad ass, but the kits were usually built on a VW body so they sounds like lawn mowers and drive about as fast. My dream would be to own one/restore one with modern amenities and a decent engine if I had more money than sense.
The Carmageddon games were HEAVILY inspired by this move. You can win a race by hitting all the checkpoints and finishing the laps first OR being the last surviving vehicle OR you can win by default if you manage to kill every single pedestrian on the map. There are also vehicles pretty much lifted straight from the movie with others taking the theme and running with it.
Carmageddon games were so much fun back in the day playing multiplayer. Using the spring to launch other player's cars across the map or driving the giant construction dump truck and just rolling over everyone.
I love this film. It's such morbid fun. Rogen Corman at his best. And great satire, on politics, sports, and love of violence. The driving cinematography is great. Everyone credits Mad Max for this kind of camerawork, but this film did it just as well sooner. For the longest time, all you could see was the edited version on TV, even cable TV. It wasn't until, maybe, 15 years ago that I found the full, uncensored version.
20:19 If you're around tubi, look for "The Ratings Game"; a 1984 made for TV film starring Danny DeVito as a low-level mob-connected guy who figures out how to rig the TV ratings system.
Frankenstein's car is a roadster inspired Corvette. Since they have fiberglass bodies, its no wonder he was in the lead. And suffered such extreme injuries from crashes. Lol 😆 Roger Corman was executive producer on the newer Death Race movies. So yes there is a connection to the original IP at least in the basic premise. 😂 David Carradine also starred in Roger Corman's Deathsport (1978). Also starring playboy playmate Claudia Jennings. Similar to Death Race but with motorcycles instead. 😂 After driving through that fake tunnel...she should have bought a squirrel. (Rat Race reference).
This is a Roger Corman film, he made films cheap and fast, he famously had no patience for artistry, he was in film making to make money, and... there's nothing wrong with that. Fun Fact! Sylvester Stallone, who has always been a writer first and actor second, rewrote the script to fix his character's dialog. He also does most of his own vehicle stunt work in this movie because Corman was too cheap to keep the stunt people on staff for one second longer than it took them to perform the more dangerous work.
I have loved this movie since 1980 when I was 12 years old and my older brother introduced it to me. The remake is OK for what it is, but there is no beating this movie in my opinion.😂
David Carradine as Frankenstein was bad ass I remember watching this at the drive-in it was Carradine’s first movie after his Kung Fu tv series which you should review. Love your reactions.
My buds and i snuck into a drive in with our lawn chairs and a cooler of beers and a few Thai stcks. Half way through we were rolling on the ground laughing. When the fisherman was running around for his life but not willing to drop his catch,i laughed so hard i hyperventilated to the point i scared myself wondering if it was really possible to laugh oneself to death!
The 70's, maybe lacking in "modern" SFX, but for ideas and concepts for movies almost an unequalled decade. BSG, Capricorn One, Rollerball, Parallax View, Soylent Green, etc etc
The best thing about movies like this from this era is that it seems like the type of movie you would make with your friends if you had some extra cash and just wanted to have fun and not really care about the box office. We dont get movies like this anymore.
Oddly it was made the opposite. Roger Corman produced it because it was a cheap and it would make a great poster and get a good payoff. Corman was a genius for making movies where he knew the poster would get young folks in the seats. RIP Roger Corman!
@RKnights Dude! Mine got incinerated by my Grandmother when she finally broke into my trunks where I kept all my nudie mags (I was a freshman in high school when she did it!)
A film with some strong connections to this one would be Rock and Roll High School (1979) also produced by Roger Corman and directed by Joe Dante (Gremlins)
@@RKnights I attend or work three to four sci-fi comic cons a year I'd love to take Alligator to the con and park it by the replica Mach fives and Road Warrior interceptors.
If the dialogue seems a little…silly 🤭, that’s a product of Roger Corman’s favorite tongue-in-cheek scriptwriter Charles B. Griffith, who also gave Corman the original “Little Shop of Horrors”, and the equally satirical but darker “A Bucket of Blood”. His stuff’s worth checking out for gloriously inappropriate cheese. (And the best undiscovered stuff is ALWAYS on Tubi. 😎)
One of my degrees is in Broadcast and Film Production. While in film school I had the opportunity to watch a lot of unique and "edgy" films. Although this is not one that was shown in class, it is one that I found on my own. There were a lot of "underground" film screenings on campus, then when VHS rentals were finally available, we had access greater libraries of "obscure" niche films.
I will strongly suggest another car movie Vanishing Point. Vanishing Point is really underrated, but is super influential guys like Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez and other directors often cite it as a favorite. It's just purely a car movie from the late 60s.
I love this movie. I saw it in the mid 90s at some point as a teenager. Definitely have seen it a bunch of times since. They actually had a Death Race 2000 arcade game based on the movie. I remember reading about it. Never saw it in an arcade, though.
Ray, I'm getting the biggest kick out of watching you react to this. I was going to recommend this a long time ago but it's just so damn cheesy, I thought you'd make fun of me and my taste in movies. I see now that I could not have been more wrong. Thanks for the laughs, I needed that.
The remakes were good, but pale in comparison to the fantastic Death Race 2000! This movie gave me a crush on the beautiful Mary Woronov! This movie brings a new meaning to Hand Grenade!
"Why is this not a board game?" Published in 1980 Steve Jackson's Car Wars captures the feel of driving combat cars in a no rules race, either cross country or in arenas. They recently updated and released a new version.
This is part of the gripe I list when I go off on the year 2000. I was born in '67. I was told, in order, that the year 2000 would bring: Flying cars, bases on the Moon, Death Race 2000, WWIII, the second coming of Christ, and the Y2K apocalypse. What did I get? The second-non-goofiest pair of New Year's glasses for the decade 2000-2009, and it wasn't even the actual Millenium. At least in '99, we partied like it was 1999.
Let's see... - Flying cars. - There are currently legit car companies working on prototype quad-blade cars that fly like drones. Time will tell if they flop as hard an any other flying car design throughout history. - Moon bases. - The world seems to have renewed its interest in space things. And they say a few stations on the moon would help. 'Could' happen any year, now. - Death Race - Sequel movies, I guess. - WW III - If these current world leaders of ours keep going... - Christ - If we have a war, we're going to need Christ. (And bring back John Wayne on the way.) - Y2K - Interesting thing. Those cleaver programmers had long since figured out how to get around 99 while still keeping it so small. 100 (Or the year 2000)= A0. 110 (2010) is B0. According to those ancient systems, we should be living in the year C4 (2024) and about to enter C5. Plenty of time to retire vacuum tubes and ancient Unix OS's in. I can't remember if the crazy thing only went to G (2060) or all the way to Z. (2250 to '59) And by then, our children's-children's AI's should be able to fix everything.
The narrator was doing a bad impression of Howard Cosell. Cosell was THE sports announcer through the 60s, 70s, and early 80s. Everyone knew his voice and style.
Notice the symbolism at the start of the race? In this alternative world, Germany won the war and took over at least the Americas. So, their world must have been horrible and made a race like this so popular. As for Mr. Frankenstein, it's all propaganda that the general audience eats up. Because he's always masked, 'Frankenstein' can be played by almost anyone, as the lore of the character is what matters.
Every time I am at a traffic lights and someone walks across the road, I always mutter "Fifty Points !". This is where I got it from, classic movie.
Cars that Ate Paris is another.
I still do it too
56:45 Mark! Hmm. Mark Hamill did "Corvette Summer" and Ron Howard did "Eat My Dust!" as standard car movies. This is the SF twist!
I like watching Ray show these to his kids. I showed my son a lot of these movies you review too and your videos remind me of when my son and I would watch shows and movies like this
33:43 Mark! "Buzz Bomb" was nickname for the "V-1" given because it buzzed as it approached the target! 😮
41:59 Mark! Hey, you let those two interruptions play out! 😮
53:00 Mark! He told her to toss it out, but her freaking out about it being a "hand" kept her from complying! 😂😅 Ironic! Which body parts freak her out and which don't? 🤔
41:16 Mark! Before this came "The Lords of Flatbush"! It's a movie about life in a classic-style street gang that isn't a criminal organization. 🤔
There was a Death Race video game, but it was banned pretty quickly. The object was to hit people and avoid hitting headstones. When you hit someone they turned into a headstone.
55:54 Mark! Hmm. A "Lamborghini" maybe? 🤔 But anyway, that voice is meant to be Walter Cronkite! 😅
30:55 Mark! I had a college roommate from Tulsa who had a boxed RPG called "Car Wars" with the "Star Wars" logo font. It was inspired by this movie, the first "Mad Max" movie!
I've seen the newer movies. I prefer the architecture and prettier women of this movie. 😊
58:47 Mark! People keep saying "popcorn movie" like that. Why? 😮 The only times I don't get popcorn are when I just ate and I'm too full to eat more! Or I don't have the money for it. Or I'm too queasy to eat. Otherwise, I buy popcorn, and I eat it, regardless of the genre. Usually, if I'm early enough, it is all gone before the previews start because I buy the small size the most. 🤔
This is the best Death Race movie
, I saw this as a teen!!!
1:05:57 Mark! "Wacky Racers" an animated cartoon series, predates this movie. If you ate enough breakfast cereal, you could collect the cars! Natalie Wood's sexiest costume is in a car race movie with Tony Curtis as her love interest. 😊 "The Great Race"? 🤔
A good double-feature is "Those Daring Young Men in Their Flying Machines" and "Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies"!
By the way! Another double-feature for you! James Garner in:
"Support Your Local Gunfighter" &
"Support Your Local Sheriff"! 😂😅
This is my go to movie when I don't feel well. Thanks for diving into my childhood
This movie needs more love and respect
The bit where he ignores the senior citizen and takes out the hospital staff instead...priceless! 😂
Here's a fun fact. Mary Woronov who plays "Calimity Jane" Kelly in this movie also appeared early on Babylon 5 Season One as Ko'Dath the Narn aide attached to Ambassador G'Kar. Unfortunately she had a bad reaction to the extensive makeup and had to back out of the role. 😢
So good
This movie gave me a crush on Mary Woronov!
Mary woronov was also on Eating Raual🤘
And "Rock 'n Roll High School" with the Ramones.
@@mwanush Such a crazy fun film with good music!
Brutally underrated satire comedy. Everyone who likes Idiocracy would appreciate this. And Idiocracy itself is underrated! The rotten SOBs who own media love to bury this stuff deep.
4:19 Mark! Oh, so you missed out on "Kung Fu" and "Kung Fu: The Next Generation" unless the "Next" should be "New"? 🤔
Kenny Rogers has a song called "The Gambler" that eventually got used as the basis for a series of made-for-television movies. They served as a crossover hub for the old television Western series, one of which was "Kung Fu"!
Burt Reyinolds made a series of theatrical movies about "The Cannonball Run" and David Carradine may be in at least one, made before or after "Death Race 2000"? 🤔
There was a rival movie called "The Gumball Rally"! 😂
Those comedy movies probably inspired this movie. 🤔
David plays a Navy man in "Gray Lady Down" I think? 🤔 There's more than one submarine movie! "The Neptune Odyssey" comes to mind as well. 🤔 He's in one of them? Unless it is "Raise the Titanic"? 🤔
After DEATH RACE 2000, David Carradine starred in the cross-country road race movie CANNONBALL (aka CARQUAKE), which despite the similar title was not part of the CANNONBALL RUN franchise.
@glenharrison983 ! Oh, thank you for the clarification! ☺️😊
Great flick. I do have it in my DVD collection. There was an arcade game based on the movie back in 1976. This is one of the all-time great cult movies, up there with “Repo Man” and “The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension.” A good cheesy sci-fi movie is “Robinson Crusoe On Mars;” kind of a 60’s version of “The Martian.”
1:00:26 Mark! "Nudity"! Heh. Because of actress Jayne Mansfield, it was taken for granted it would at least be female nudity and most likely blonde at that! But now.... Sigh. Daniel Craig's "Casino Royale" was a big let down with the lack of sexy girl silhouettes dancing in the opening credits montage. 😮
But hey, to be fair, the actor who plays "The Skipper" in "Gilligan's Island" appears in a Western in which he puts on his raggedy long underwear while on his bed, then stands up to reveal a lot more of him than I would think was allowed for men at the time! 😮 I was like, "Why couldn't it have been Ginger or Mary Ann?!" 😢
I owned this on VHS as a kid. It fit with my quirky sense of humor and my grandmother thought it was hilarious
Your grandma must have been a gem
20:47 Mark! "Cheesey"? Okay, Ray! Maybe you will be the one to finally answer my question?! When something is made of cheese or from cheese or covered in it, I know what it means in the literal context. But in the context that you just used it, why did you use it that way? 🤔 And how different is it from "campy"? 🤔
"Google" gives unsatisfactory answers. 😮
I believe cheesey is the same as campy. I grew up using cheesey alot more than campy
@RKnights ! Oh? Hmm. 🤔 While "Batman" was being labeled as "camp" by commentators on television and by magazine writers, "Cheetos" had a motorcycle riding mouse named "Cheesey Rider" ["Easy Rider"] and by the time he was replaced with the cat, I think I began hearing "cheesey" in place of "campy". I guess it was just a coincidence that so many summer camp movies had been made by then that people thought "camp humor" et cetera was the comedy subgenre they belonged to. 🤔
@@RKnights ! Psst! "A lot" is two words! 🧐
My sister took me to this at the drive in theater for my 6th birthday. The first movie I remember. It opened for the The Happy Hooker. My sister was great :D
Your sister was a real one
I remember for years after this came out, you'd be in the car with your friends, or your family, and someone, your buddy, your uncle, my mom even, often people who had not even seen the movie, would say something like 'Pedestrian in a crosswalk, 60 points!' as a joke. It was pretty common it seemed. Because of this movie.
The the Jason Statham reboots does not hold a candle to this, as the original is brilliant satire and his versions just had some comedy. Roger Corman did a follow up movie a few years back with that is incredibly funny, though with much less impressive cars and no budget at all,
I saw the first reboot and it was ok. This is a masterpiece
Corman produced DEATH RACE 2000 to rip off/cash in on the major studio release ROLLERBALL, but in my humble opinion DEATH RACE 2000 is by far the superior film (it was directed by Paul Bartel, who also appears in the film as Frankenstein's surgeon). The Jason Statham reboot - and the sequel and two prequels it spawned - are just meat-headed action movies in comparison (not that there's anything wrong with meat-headed action flicks). The Asylum made DEATH RACERS to cash in on the Statham film, and while it's not a 'good' movie, it at least attempts to capture the satire of Bartel's movie. I consider Corman's own sequel/remake/reboot/whatever DEATH RACE 2050 to be a worthy follow up to the original.
1:03:22 Mark! Hmm. I forget which decade it began during and if it ever ended. But at one point there was a big movement to ban violent sports such as Football and Boxing. This movie may have been a reaction to it? 🤔
The original "Rollerball" movie starring actor James Caan, is an SF classic of the decade it came out during. Roller Derby was still big on television! In the movie, the game was a blood sport, because it had replaced warfare! Corporations took over from governments, because warfare was bad for business and profits! 😮
The remake is just an action movie about an underground extreme sport in Europe somewhere. 🇪🇺
It wasn't sexy either, because it lacked "furniture" girls. Those are girls who live in apartments that are awarded to the best players!
Though, the movie looks similar to "Soylent Green" as if designed by the same people. So I may be conflating them. 🤷♂️
I saw this in the theater when I was a teenager. Me and my friends laughed our asses off. This is pure satire.
26:29
That announcer was doing a bad Howard Cosell voice. Howard Cosell was one of the most controversial sports broadcast personalities in American media but his provocative style and refusal to conform redefined the role of the sports commentator.
1:11 Mark! The arcade video game "Spy Hunter"! 😊
THere's a bunch of really grim jokes in this one. :D Looking forward to your reaction on the crotch-wheelie. :D
And yes, you're right, this COULD be out of Heavy Metal! Now THAt was some cool weird stuff!
This movie needs more love
I watched this on cable back in 1978 when I was 10.
Guys, howdy! 🤠 Good! There are remakes and/or sequels to be seen! Someone took the term "Blood Drive" and punned it as the title for a "SyFy" series in which someone invented automobile motors/engines that use blood as a fuel source! 😮 Hence the title! 😂
Thanks for that
That show was so insane that I couldn't believe what I was seeing when it aired. Sadly it never got a second season. Back when SyFy tried to do interesting things.
Man, I forgot about that show!
The series explains the incentive for an alternative fuel source! Ahem. A natural disaster caused the world's largest sinkhole or impact crater, and it took out a lot of fossil fuel sources as it happened! From orbit, it looked like we could see Mother Gaia's interior vagina and surrounding exterior vulva from the Dakotas down to Texas! 🤪
The engines looked like they chewed on their roadkill victims as a part of the conversion process. Collisions weren't required as people dead or alive could be tossed onto the grinders!
A school bus full of cheerleaders was used as a fuel source by one team. They were trying to hitch a ride but got used as fuel instead!
The car at the end with the sick ass canopy is a kit car alternately known as a Nova Sterling, Eureka, or Purvis (Pervis). By styling alone, the car is absolutely bad ass, but the kits were usually built on a VW body so they sounds like lawn mowers and drive about as fast. My dream would be to own one/restore one with modern amenities and a decent engine if I had more money than sense.
Got to see this movie in the theater, had to sneak in with some friends because we were 10yrs old.
The Carmageddon games were HEAVILY inspired by this move. You can win a race by hitting all the checkpoints and finishing the laps first OR being the last surviving vehicle OR you can win by default if you manage to kill every single pedestrian on the map. There are also vehicles pretty much lifted straight from the movie with others taking the theme and running with it.
Video games?
@@RKnights Yes. 4 of them in total now. all 4 are on steam.
Carmageddon games were so much fun back in the day playing multiplayer. Using the spring to launch other player's cars across the map or driving the giant construction dump truck and just rolling over everyone.
I love this film. It's such morbid fun. Rogen Corman at his best. And great satire, on politics, sports, and love of violence. The driving cinematography is great. Everyone credits Mad Max for this kind of camerawork, but this film did it just as well sooner. For the longest time, all you could see was the edited version on TV, even cable TV. It wasn't until, maybe, 15 years ago that I found the full, uncensored version.
This movie should have been titled "Everyday Traffic in Albuquerque."
20:19 If you're around tubi, look for "The Ratings Game"; a 1984 made for TV film starring Danny DeVito as a low-level mob-connected guy who figures out how to rig the TV ratings system.
This was the first movie I saw in a theater back in 75. I was 5.
I haven't seen this since it first came out.
Snuck into a drive-in as a teenager.
Frankenstein's car is a roadster inspired Corvette. Since they have fiberglass bodies, its no wonder he was in the lead. And suffered such extreme injuries from crashes. Lol 😆
Roger Corman was executive producer on the newer Death Race movies. So yes there is a connection to the original IP at least in the basic premise. 😂
David Carradine also starred in Roger Corman's Deathsport (1978). Also starring playboy playmate Claudia Jennings. Similar to Death Race but with motorcycles instead. 😂
After driving through that fake tunnel...she should have bought a squirrel. (Rat Race reference).
Roger Corman would have made a great gladiator agent in ancient Rome.
This is a Roger Corman film, he made films cheap and fast, he famously had no patience for artistry, he was in film making to make money, and... there's nothing wrong with that.
Fun Fact! Sylvester Stallone, who has always been a writer first and actor second, rewrote the script to fix his character's dialog. He also does most of his own vehicle stunt work in this movie because Corman was too cheap to keep the stunt people on staff for one second longer than it took them to perform the more dangerous work.
That is awesome to hear
I have loved this movie since 1980 when I was 12 years old and my older brother introduced it to me. The remake is OK for what it is, but there is no beating this movie in my opinion.😂
This movie is a gem. I wish I have seen it sooner
I bought this movie so many years ago, just to get the footage of that airplane.
The movie is fantastic
Both versions of this movie are in my collection.
Stallone is hilarious.
He is great in this
There was a Death Race coin-op video game that released around the time of the movie.
David Carradine as Frankenstein was bad ass I remember watching this at the drive-in it was Carradine’s first movie after his Kung Fu tv series which you should review. Love your reactions.
This movie was 100 percent bad ass
This movie, Wacky Racers, Cannonball Run, It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, and probably many more. It seems there was a bit of a theme during that era.
Roger Ebert hated this film then 30 yrs later called it a masterpiece. He finally got the Joke..... this movie is a satire of violence.
My buds and i snuck into a drive in with our lawn chairs and a cooler of beers and a few Thai stcks. Half way through we were rolling on the ground laughing. When the fisherman was running around for his life but not willing to drop his catch,i laughed so hard i hyperventilated to the point i scared myself wondering if it was really possible to laugh oneself to death!
The 70's, maybe lacking in "modern" SFX, but for ideas and concepts for movies almost an unequalled decade. BSG, Capricorn One, Rollerball, Parallax View, Soylent Green, etc etc
70s might be the best decade for film and tv
Rollerball is so good
Logan's Run
Yes points assigned to all. Loved it in college. 1975-79
This movie is a masterpiece
The best thing about movies like this from this era is that it seems like the type of movie you would make with your friends if you had some extra cash and just wanted to have fun and not really care about the box office. We dont get movies like this anymore.
Oddly it was made the opposite. Roger Corman produced it because it was a cheap and it would make a great poster and get a good payoff. Corman was a genius for making movies where he knew the poster would get young folks in the seats. RIP Roger Corman!
"Heavy Metal" magazine!!! Collected them back in the day!!
Hell yeah! I have the complete collection digitized
@RKnights Dude! Mine got incinerated by my Grandmother when she finally broke into my trunks where I kept all my nudie mags (I was a freshman in high school when she did it!)
There was a RPG game that was loosely based off this and several other car movies called Car Wars.
You lactose intolerant viewers will appreciate the reboot. It's totally cheese free.
A film with some strong connections to this one would be Rock and Roll High School (1979) also produced by Roger Corman and directed by Joe Dante (Gremlins)
The surviving Frankensteins Alligator car and the cows hyde Bullcar with horns still exist.
That is great to hear
@@RKnights I attend or work three to four sci-fi comic cons a year I'd love to take Alligator to the con and park it by the replica Mach fives and Road Warrior interceptors.
I only found out this movie exists because it had Burt Rutan's VariViggen airplane in it and I wanted to see that.
Did you guys notice "Gopher" from The Love Boat? "Blitzkrieg!"
Still have the VHS of this on my shelf simply as a conversation starter. If you know Death Race, you're gold in my book. 👍
Respect :-)
😂 I still have my DVD
If the dialogue seems a little…silly 🤭, that’s a product of Roger Corman’s favorite tongue-in-cheek scriptwriter Charles B. Griffith, who also gave Corman the original “Little Shop of Horrors”, and the equally satirical but darker “A Bucket of Blood”. His stuff’s worth checking out for gloriously inappropriate cheese.
(And the best undiscovered stuff is ALWAYS on Tubi. 😎)
That hand grenade would seriously impede my sex life.
This movie reminds me of the late 60's cartoon series the wacky races.
Holy sh!$% you are right
Coming next year, R. Knights gaming with Death Race
One of my degrees is in Broadcast and Film Production. While in film school I had the opportunity to watch a lot of unique and "edgy" films. Although this is not one that was shown in class, it is one that I found on my own. There were a lot of "underground" film screenings on campus, then when VHS rentals were finally available, we had access greater libraries of "obscure" niche films.
That sounds amazing
I will strongly suggest another car movie Vanishing Point. Vanishing Point is really underrated, but is super influential guys like Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez and other directors often cite it as a favorite. It's just purely a car movie from the late 60s.
Yes! Definitely beats Fast and Furious. Black actor for the sequel, Jimmy (Dy-no-mite) Walker.
There was a game series called Carmaggedon inspired by this film
The Death Race 2050 is the official sequel to this movie.
I love this movie. I saw it in the mid 90s at some point as a teenager. Definitely have seen it a bunch of times since. They actually had a Death Race 2000 arcade game based on the movie. I remember reading about it. Never saw it in an arcade, though.
The guy that plays Nero was in Karate Kid.
Ray, I'm getting the biggest kick out of watching you react to this. I was going to recommend this a long time ago but it's just so damn cheesy, I thought you'd make fun of me and my taste in movies. I see now that I could not have been more wrong. Thanks for the laughs, I needed that.
Brother! I love this movie. Im glad to hear you enjoy our reaction. Such a great movie
The modern movie ratings system started in 1968. 😮
The remakes were good, but pale in comparison to the fantastic Death Race 2000!
This movie gave me a crush on the beautiful Mary Woronov!
This movie brings a new meaning to Hand Grenade!
It sure does lol 🤣🤣🤣
Death race 2050 is a sequel to this one
so much better than the remakes
There was a video game death race 2000. It was the first game to be banned in the U.S.
Two board games are based on this, and others also, battlecars came out
..and now for the gratuitous nudity...
"Why is this not a board game?"
Published in 1980 Steve Jackson's Car Wars captures the feel of driving combat cars in a no rules race, either cross country or in arenas. They recently updated and released a new version.
thank you , I will look it up
@@RKnights Thunder Road Vendetta is a modern board game with car battling and racing
The movie was reportedly based on a Pong-era B&W mid-70’s video game where you ran over pedestrians, and…that’s it. One point per target, though.
They used Volkswagon bugs with different bodies
This is part of the gripe I list when I go off on the year 2000. I was born in '67. I was told, in order, that the year 2000 would bring: Flying cars, bases on the Moon, Death Race 2000, WWIII, the second coming of Christ, and the Y2K apocalypse. What did I get? The second-non-goofiest pair of New Year's glasses for the decade 2000-2009, and it wasn't even the actual Millenium. At least in '99, we partied like it was 1999.
Let's see...
- Flying cars. - There are currently legit car companies working on prototype quad-blade cars that fly like drones. Time will tell if they flop as hard an any other flying car design throughout history.
- Moon bases. - The world seems to have renewed its interest in space things. And they say a few stations on the moon would help. 'Could' happen any year, now.
- Death Race - Sequel movies, I guess.
- WW III - If these current world leaders of ours keep going...
- Christ - If we have a war, we're going to need Christ. (And bring back John Wayne on the way.)
- Y2K - Interesting thing. Those cleaver programmers had long since figured out how to get around 99 while still keeping it so small. 100 (Or the year 2000)= A0. 110 (2010) is B0. According to those ancient systems, we should be living in the year C4 (2024) and about to enter C5. Plenty of time to retire vacuum tubes and ancient Unix OS's in. I can't remember if the crazy thing only went to G (2060) or all the way to Z. (2250 to '59) And by then, our children's-children's AI's should be able to fix everything.
Frankenstein doctor in this film is its director....
Carradine died from auto erotic strangulation. Better he died making this movie.
These cars were used Volkswagen Beetles, that they replaced the bodies. and the teeth on the Frankenstein car we plastic and kept falling off.
The narrator was doing a bad impression of Howard Cosell.
Cosell was THE sports announcer through the 60s, 70s, and early 80s. Everyone knew his voice and style.
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No worse than the Purge movies these days.
If I'm correct you could buy these cars as matchbox or hot wheels die cast cars
Notice the symbolism at the start of the race? In this alternative world, Germany won the war and took over at least the Americas. So, their world must have been horrible and made a race like this so popular. As for Mr. Frankenstein, it's all propaganda that the general audience eats up. Because he's always masked, 'Frankenstein' can be played by almost anyone, as the lore of the character is what matters.
You guys.
Two words.
Eating.
Raul.
Look it up.
This movie has my favorite airplane ever invented. The Rutan Variviggen is the closest thing to an F16 most mortal men will ever know.
Kung Fu vs Rocky.
Typical roger Corman movie. BTW - all the cars were VW' because they all they could afford on the budget