This film is dreadful and should be banned. I cannot see the humour in running over children. Stallone should be beheaded. Chap rubbish.

Terrific movie! Another example of making crap the right way! Funny, fast, clever, and violent. David Caradine is one of the best Deadpan Delivery Camp actors there has ever been. This guy's also a geniune "good" actor. Catch him in "Bound For Glory" sometime. But like Karloff and Price and several other well known B stars he just seems to be swimming in his element in these tongue-and-cheek cheeseball films. The "Hand Grenade" scene is priceless! Herman the German went into politics by way of the Love Boat! Mary Woronov, a true B queen if ever there was one, is as campy and sexy as ever in this one...and she's a mean death car pedaling bitch! And Sly Stallone belongs here, his "A" features gag me. Paul Bartel made one of the best Roger Corman films of all time with this little beauty and I'm amazed that it hasn't picked up a much bigger cult following than it has over the years. Rent it, buy it, watch it with friends and-or car buffs. Throw popcorn at the screen and have a blast. I even remember the arcade video game that came out when the movies did. It was one of the first video games of its kind. Most pinball machines still had spin counters instead of digital readouts back then...that should tell you haw long ago this was. Movies like this one were still considered dirty by most standards and seldom played anywhere but at the drive-ins.  I saw it with a carload of idiots for $1.75...bumber sticker night...as many people has you could stuff in a car for one admission price! Now that was the way to see these kind of movies! Inside the concession stand was the infamous video game machine, there for the week run of the film, 25 cents a play...couldn't get anywhere near it...more people played the game that night than actually stayed in thier cars and actually saw the movie. God...I hate getting old.

Death Race 2000 was actually made in the year of 1975. Roger Corman used a low budget in this movie, but I like it anyway because David Carradine and Sylvester Stallone were the main actors.

DR2000 is awesome, plain and simple.  Complete gory violent mindless fun.  It's amazing how many people have seen this movie and remember it (although many times the name of the movie eludes them).  To this day, whenever pedestrians cross my car's path I mentally tally their point totals.

Oh, and to Bessie--maybe you don't see the "humour" in running over children, but I sure do ...  

This movie gives me goofbumps!  Word!  I especially enjoy the reprter at the end of the movie screaming "violence!  Violence!!  VIOLENCE!!!" right before he becomes street pizza!  Woo!  Hoo!

I remember watching "Death Race 2000" when i was just a boy, (I think I was about 10 years old.) and I liked it ALOT!! My dad watched it with me and then we went out in the backyard and raced my R/C cars around and ran over "G.I. JOE" and "HE-MAN" toys. But, then my mom came home for the store and saw us 'killing' my toys and grounded me from the T.V. for two weeks. After that my dad got me a "Hot Wheels" (I think) Frankenstein's CAR!!! and was playing with that in the livingroom floor. Problem is I left it in floor when i was called to the dinningroom table. After dinner, my mom was walking to her bedroom barefoot and stepped on it, and the top is pointed and it cut her. SO she pick it up and throw it in the TRASH!!!!
"I WANT MY "Frankenstein's CAR" BACK!!!!!

This movie is so bad it's good. Everyone should see this movie at least once. It's just way too funny. Hearing about the great pile up of '99 makes me laugh every time.
A must see all the way.
If you've ever heard anyone shout "old man 100 points!" or shouted it yourself while driving, Deathrace is where it all began.

Awesome movie....That and Rollerball (the original) make a great double feature.

BTW - I believe its Grace Pander, not Parker (joke there somewhere)

And I believe if you listen to the dialog, Frankenstein has no replaced limbs - its a new frankenstein every time.  Am I wrong?  He says to annie that he was raised to be the winner "this year."  Its all part of the act.  Also - I dont believe that after 15 (??) races he suddenly decides this year to kill Mr. P.

Theres a lot more political satire here than first meets the eye - I believe the story on which it was based was less of a comedy than the movie turns out to be.  But I wouldnt change a thing in the movie - its perfect in its cheesiness and 70s flavor.