Not to say this film doesn't have it's share of sleaze. A higher budget film would have seemed much more seedy and sleazy. It almost helps that the film is so low budget because it gives the violence less impact. Director Paul Bartel stretches the presumably meagre budget to almost breaking point. The sets and cars look cheap and shoddy but that doesn't really matter. The performances and budget aren't anything to write home about.
The satire is over the top and absurd – one great scene has two elderly commentators explain how many points you get for running over men, women, children and elderly people. You can watch it with your brain switched off or with your brain switched on and enjoy it equally.
DEATH RACE 2000 PUBLIC DOMAIN MOVIE
What's so great about Death Race 2000? Well it's the same reason Robocop's so great – it's an action movie on one hand and a satire on the other. I eventually tracked it down on an old VHS and damn was it a great film. One that stuck out was Death Race 2000, a little b-movie from 1975 that was awarded the maximum five out of five guns.
Anyway, I ended up trying to track down every film the book reviewed. With a lot of film guides I tend to only agree with about half the reviews but with this one I agreed with every single review, it was like some future version of me went back in time and wrote it. It covered the genres golden age from the mid 70s to mid 90s rating each film with guns instead of stars. A big influence on my love of action movies as a kid was a book called Action! by Marshall Julius – which was essentially Halliwell's film guide for action movies (I highly recommend picking up a copy).
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