B-Movie Blitzkrieg Podcast - Episode 4
Death Race 2000 (1975)
Start your engines and hide your pedestrians, because the B-Movie Blitzkrieg Podcast is back, revving harder than a muscle car on a death wish. Your intrepid hosts, Duncan & The Baz, are steering straight into the high-octane chaos of Death Race 2000 (1975) the cult-classic collision of dystopian satire, grindhouse grit, and pure vehicular insanity.
This episode, we’re shifting into top gear to explore Roger Corman’s gleefully twisted vision of the future: a transcontinental road race where drivers rack up points by turning pedestrians into speed bumps, and the government swears it’s all in the name of national morale. With a leather-clad David Carradine behind the wheel and a pre-Rocky Sylvester Stallone spewing insults like machine-gun fire, this is one road trip to fascist America you won’t soon forget.
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In This Episode:
A lap-by-lap breakdown of Death Race 2000’s delirious dystopia, featuring:
* Frankenstein: the masked man, the myth, the merchandise machine.
* Machine Gun Joe Viterbo: Stallone at his shoutiest.
* Cars so impractical they’d fail an MOT on sight.
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Top 5 Rad/Sad & Bad Moments, including:
* The greatest use of a hospital ward as a speed trap in cinema history.
* Road rage as state policy.
* Flamboyant TV Hosts
* What is the deal with the fight choreography
* A sex scene with a radish?? Or was that a typo in The Baz's notes?
We also debate whether the film is a brilliant political satire wrapped in B-movie cheese, or simply an excuse for Roger Corman to film people in spandex crashing cars into papier-maché buildings. Spoiler: it’s both.
Plus, we tip or drivers helmets to the pop-culture impact that had a generation of parents cracking pedestrian knock-down points confusing their children for years to come. And in true B-Movie Blitzkrieg tradition, we hand down the official rating: does Death Race 2000 cross the finish line in a blaze of grindhouse glory, or spin out in a puddle of its own absurdity?
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Whether you come for the rubber-burning action, the gleefully tasteless kills, or the bizarrely optimistic vision of authoritarian rule, this episode’s got enough carnage and camp to fill an entire freeway. Remember: in the future, everyone’s a speed bump if you try hard enough.
Until next time, keep your engines hot, your seatbelts loose, and your morality questionable. Here at B-Movie Blitzkrieg… the bizarre meets the brilliant one B-Movie at a time.
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Next Episode Drops Friday, August 29th 2025
Grab your crossbows and prep your shoulder pads...we’re heading into 2019: After the Fall of New York (1983), a post-apocalyptic fever dream where Mad Max meets Escape from New York, with a side order of mutant rats. Expect scavenger gangs, irradiated landscapes, and enough 80s Italian sci-fi optimism to melt a Geiger counter.
If you thought Death Race 2000 was wild, wait until you see the end of the world… on a budget.
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TIMECODE:
00:00:00 - THEME SONG
00:00:45 - INTRO
00:03:50 - PLOT
00:08:18 - TOP 5 RAD/SAD/BAD MOMENTS
00:18:15 - BEST/WORST LINES
00:22:55 - PLOTHOLES
00:25:25 - SCORE
00:27:30 - CLOSE