Death Race 2000
1975, R, 78 min.
Directed by Paul Bartel, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Fred Grandy, Don Steele, Roberta Collins, Mary Woronov, Louisa Moritz, Sylvester Stallone, Simone Griffeth, David Carradine.

This is the one and only (even though there are plans afoot – with different talent – to make Death Race 3000). This is director Paul Bartel and writer Robert Thom at their most deliriously twisted, and producer Roger Corman at his most visionary. The story involves a car race in a futuristic society in which the idea is to mow down pedestrians. A pre-Rocky Stallone and the always divine Mary Woronov
(Eating Raoul) make this road rage comedy an eternal delight.

This article appears in October 8 • 1999.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.