Despite a pirated national broadcast made by Ms. She plans to lure him into an ambush to be replaced by a double. The group is assisted by Paine's great granddaughter Annie, Frankenstein's latest navigator. President's regime by sabotaging the race, killing most of the drivers, and taking Frankenstein hostage as leverage against the President. Machine Gun Joe is the main opposition to Frankenstein.Ī resistance group led by Thomasina Paine, a descendant of 1770s American Revolutionary Thomas Paine, plans to rebel against Mr. The game has sadistic rules, where killing babies and physically challenged people will give the player extra points.
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The race is covered on national TV by a news team headed by the boisterous and comical Junior Bruce, seductive matron Grace Pander, and laconic commentator Harold (a parody of Howard Cosell). Each drives with a navigator of the opposite sex, who also implicitly functions as a love interest.
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In the year 2000, the five drivers in the 20th annual race, who all adhere to professional wrestling-style personas and drive appropriately themed cars, include Frankenstein, the mysterious black-garbed champion and national hero Machine Gun Joe, a Chicago tough-guy gangster Calamity Jane, a cowgirl Matilda The Hun, a neo-Nazi and Nero The Hero, a Roman gladiator. To pacify the population, the government has organized the Transcontinental Road Race, where a group of drivers is driving across the country in their high-powered cars, infamous for violence, gore, and innocent pedestrians being struck for bonus points. The United States government restructured into a totalitarian regime under martial law. Oh well, at least there isn't a giant evil pickle from Venus in this one.After the "World Crash of '79", massive civil unrest and economic ruin occurs. Still, it's a fairly low-budget affair pedetrians get crushed, and things git blowed up real good, but it only makes you wonder what the film cud have been with a larger budget. One of Corman's many little social cowmentaries, this one about the all-too American obsession for violence and sports thankfully he allows Bartell to deftly and briskly direct. Also stars Mary Woronov("Eating Raoul", "Rock & Roll High School")as Calamity Jane, Roberta Collins("Eaten Alive", "Hardbodies")delightful as Matilda the Hun, and 60's DJ Don Steele as a mincing little announcer. A pre-"Rocky" Sylvester Stallone is grand as Machine-Gun Joe Viterbo, Frankenstein's arch-rival. Carradine plays a darkly foreboding Frankenstein, so-called because of the many limbs he has lost as a result of running the Death Race. The game, in this case, being the Transcontinental Road Race where anything goes, and where pedestrians are run over and assigned kill points. President rules from overseas, and old folks are routinely euthanized as part of the game. Unlike many Corman cheapies, the stark, spartan setting of "DR2K" only adds to the bleak atmosphere, where Mr. Produced by Corman, and directed by Paul Bartell("Eating Raoul"), the film is fast-paced, blackly humorous, and well-made. Kind of a poor-man's "Roller Ball", "DR2K" is about the ultimate in New America's blood sport in a fascist "near-future", with David Carradine("Kung Fu")as the anti-hero Frankenstein. Every once in a while, Roger Corman, "a dear friend of mine" =8), comes out with a little gem among the tons of coal he produces every year, and "DR2K" is one of them.