Frankenstein’s navigator, Alice, turns out to be working for the resistance, but then so does Frankenstein. There’s quite a lot of violence, but it’s all too cartoonish to take seriously, though perhaps it was shocking in its time.
NERO THE HERO DEATH RACE 2000 DRIVERS
The drivers head west, crushing pedestrians as they go, but are themselves being picked off by the anti-Mr President resistance run by the schoolmarmish Thomasina Paine. I might cut down my usual recap of the plot, because there isn’t much of one. Remember the year 2000, when everyone dressed like this? Frankenstein is lauded by the press, proclaimed a close personal friend of Mr President and is certainly the one to beat in the TCRR of the year 2000. He’s so called because he’s been injured countless times and sewn back together, each time better than before. The other survivor, the hero of many races, the idol of millions is the great racer known as - Frankenstein (David Carradine). This was a point in Stallone’s career where he could still get beaten up by David Carradine. Joe drives a mob-themed car, bedecked with machine-guns and giant knives and is one of only two survivors of previous races. Later, I realised that it actually was Sylvester Stallone a few years before he hit it big with Rocky. Next up is Machine-gun Joe - played by an actor who I initially thought was doing a really good Sylvester Stallone impression.
NERO THE HERO DEATH RACE 2000 DRIVER
There’s Calamity Jane (Mary Woronov), a cowgirl who drives a car made up to look like a bull, Nazi-themed driver Matilda the Hun (Roberta Collins) in her Buzz-bomb, and Roman-themed Nero the Hero (Martin Kove) whose car looks like a lion. Each of them has some sort of amusing branded persona. The drivers of these cars are great celebrities with legions of admirers. In this event, five cars race from New York to New Los Angeles, scoring points on the way by running people over. Mr President does generalised, unspecified evil things and maintains his power over the people by means of an annual of the Trans Continental Road Race. In the distant future year 2000, the sinister Mr President (Sandy McCallum) runs an evil government that has taken over the USA.
Remember back in the year 2000 when buildings looked like this? It’s also produced by Roger Corman, which means it could go either way, quality wise.
Death Race 2000 is exactly like a Hunger Games/Wacky Races mash up, no exceptions. No, on second thoughts, I take that back. Never mind, though, I have something almost as silly: Death Race 2000! What’s that, you ask? Well, if you imagine something like a cross between The Hunger Games and The Wacky Races then, that’s basically Death Race 2000, except that… Since the best part of Victor Frankenstein is the visuals, I think I’ll leave that one for now. I was going to write about Victor Frankenstein this week, before I remembered that, duh, the DVD isn’t out yet so I can’t get any screenshots. David Carradine in a gimp suit at the controls of a car shaped like an alligator. Frankenstein! Ripped up, wiped out, battered, shattered, creamed and reamed! A dancer on the brink of death!” - Junior Bruce, Death Race 2000.
Only two time winner of the Trans Continental Road Race. “Frankenstein! Frankenstein the legend! Frankenstein the indestructible! Sole survivor of the titanic pile-up of ’95. “I need not describe the feelings of those whose dearest ties are rent by that most irreparable evil, the void that presents itself to the soul, and the despair that is exhibited on the countenance.” - Mary Shelley, Frankenstein.
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