Subsequently, David Carradine managed to etch out for himself the role of a sort of Zen Clint Eastwood in a number of low-budget films like this.
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Death Race 2000 starred David Carradine, who had just come off the end of his cult tv series Kung Fu (1972-5). Also on board was Paul Bartel’s Raoul and frequent co-star, low budget cult queen Mary Woronov. Bartel had previously directed the little-seen kinky black comedy Private Parts (1972) and would go onto create the cult black comedy Eating Raoul (1982) about a couple killing swingers. Griffith who scripted some Corman’s more amusing cult films like A Bucket of Blood (1959) and The Little Shop of Horrors (1960) and Robert Thom, who wrote the quirkily satirical science-fiction film Wild in the Streets (1968) and the very strange The Witch Who Came From the Sea (1976). In the producer’s seat was Roger Corman and on the script were Ib Melchior, a B-budget director/producer of the 1960s who made films like The Angry Red Planet (1959), Reptilicus (1961), Journey to the Seventh Planet (1962) and The Time Travelers (1964) Charles B. Indeed, Death Race 2000 gained a cult reputation in some quarters for a number of years.ĭeath Race 2000 brings together some of the more fertile talents that were then gathered under the New World Pictures roof.
The irony is that Death Race 2000 was a far more enjoyable film than the much more ponderous and heavy-handed Rollerball was. This quirky little low-budget production was designed to exploit the success of the far bigger budgeted Rollerball (1975) and its vision of future sports.
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