Death Race 2000 is a 1975 cult political satire action film directed by Paul Bartel, and starring David Carradine, Simone Griffeth and Sylvester Stallone. The film takes place in a dystopian American society in the year 2000, where the murderous Transcontinental Road Race has become a form of national entertainment. The screenplay is based on the short story The Racer by Ib Melchior.
In 2000, during the 20th annual race, a resistance group led by Thomasina Paine (Harriet Medin), a descendant of 1770s American Revolutionary Thomas Paine, plans to rebel against Mr. President's regime by sabotaging the race, killing most of the drivers, and taking Frankenstein hostage as leverage against the President. The group is assisted by Paine's great granddaughter Annie (Simone Griffeth), Frankenstein's latest navigator. She plans to lure him into an ambush to be replaced by a double. Despite a pirated national broadcast made by Ms. Paine herself, the resistance's disruption of the race is covered up by the government and instead blamed on the French, who are also blamed for ruining the country's economy and telephone system. The game has sadistic rules, where killing a baby and physically challenged people will give the player extra points. Machine Gun Joe (Sylvester Stallone) is the main opposition to Frankenstein.
Death Race 2000 is a 1999 album by the Dayglo Abortions. Death Race 2000 is the band's first album to feature a duo vocal style. Gymbo Jak sings on tracks 3,6,7,11, & 14 and The Cretin sings on tracks 1,2,4,9,10,12,13,15,16 & vocals are done by both on tracks 5,6,7, & 8. The album was only pressed 1000 times by God records. The album was only pressed in the color grey and doesn't feature track 17. Death Race 2000 is also the first album to feature The Cretin since 1992.
The lyrical themes of the album include drug addiction, comedic influences, and general grotesqueness.
my old man is getting in the way but the government decided he's gonna die anyway. i'm not into colostomy bags so i'm gonna get rid of that dirty old fucking hag. we don't need the sick and the weak. stephen hawkins in a geek. so push him out in the street. it's euthanasia day. i'm tired of cooking mashed potatoes and mush peas all day. that stupid old fart said my mohawk looks gay for one in my life the cops have nothing to say. 'cause the government decided your all gonna die today. we don't need the sick and the weak. bill gates is a geek so push him out in the street it's euthanasia day.