October 2023

Plot is not something I tend to or like to focus on in my blogs, but we must in this case. The story is about a group of race drivers that work in 2-man (1 man, 1 woman) teams to drive across the country. Each team has a theme of sorts. Frankenstein was a lizard car, Joe was a gangster car, there was a Nazi-themed group, a western team, a Hun car, and a Roman-themed group. Where Death Race 2000 gets unique is that they can intentionally trick and harm one another. They also get points for various things as they drive. One of the team members is the driver and the other, typically the female, is the navigator. As expected, the driver drives, and the navigator plans the route. Wrap your dome around that and we’ll move one. Before we do though, I want to say that at the time I watched Death Race 2000, it was the most sci-fi thing I had seen in a while.