In The Year 2000 Hit And Run Driving Is No Longer A Felony. It's The National Sport!

A Cross Country Road Wreck!

Across the town the traffic is MURDER


eath Race 2000 is a 1975 cult action film directed by Paul Bartel, and starring David Carradine, Simone Griffeth and Sylvester Stallone. The film takes place in a dystopian American society in the year 2000, where the murderous Transcontinental Road Race has become a form of national entertainment. The screenplay is based on the short story The Racer by Ib Melchior.[3]

Cult hero Paul Bartel directed this low-budget satire in which America's passion for cars, violence, and sporting events are finally brought together in one convenient package. In the not-so-distant future, the United States has become a totalitarian regime overseen by the charming but sinister Mr. President (Sandy McCallum), who, in order to satisfy the masses' need for entertainment (and to quench their thirst for violence), has created a new national sport -- the Death Race, a nationwide road rally in which the winner is not determined by who finishes first, but by who scores the most points along the way by running over hapless pedestrians. Aspiring champions Machine Gun Joe Viterbo (Sylvester Stallone), Calamity Jane (Mary Woronov), Nero the Hero (Martin Kove), and Matilda the Hun (Roberta Collins) are all looking to take the top honors away from Frankenstein (David Carradine), a half-man/half-machine who has been built to be the best racer on Earth and can outrun and outkill anyone on the circuit. However, not everyone likes the Death Race, and revolutionary leader Thomasina Paine (Harriet Medin) wants to sabotage the event in the name of restoring democracy; her plan is to foil Frankenstein's expected victory by smuggling her daughter Annie (Simone Griffeth) into Frankenstein's race car as his navigator. Featuring David Carradine at the height of his Kung Fu fame (and Sylvester Stallone a year before Rocky), Death Race 2000 was a major drive-in hit in 1975; Bartel and Carradine teamed up for another road race movie, Cannonball, a year later, and a semi-sequel, Death Sport, appeared in 1978. ~

Release Date: June 5 , 1975

Distrib: New World Pictures

Boxoffice: $20,000,000

Trivia :DEATH RACE 2000 was a most popular movie throughout the 70s. Other studios tried to mimic its success through the 70s and 80s about cross country racing. Name these films that tried to emulate it by their poster taglines:


A) The race that drove Africa wild!

B) You'll root for them all...but you'll never guess who wins.

C) It's a hilarious coast-to-coast, 180 mile-an-hour, go-for-broke, outrageous road race with the world's most expensive cars.


D) She challenged the desert, its men, their passions and ignited a bold adventure.

E) In one desperate race for prize and glory, They join the human race

F) A comedy that's over the limit and beyond the law!

G) The annual Trans-American outlaw road race - A cross country demolition derby without rules!

H) The popcorn is in the lobby. The nuts are on the screen.


Which of these films won the race at the boxoffice?

Which of these films is exactly the 3rd in a trilogy of cross country road race films?

Which actor starred in 4 different cross country road race films?

Name the films?

Which of the above is the only one not to involve cars or trucks?