{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"DEATH RACE 2000 (1975) \u2013 Episode 185 \u2013 Decades Of Horror 1970s","description":"\u201cYou know, it used to be in the old days, we would just take someone like you in an alley and blow their brains out.\u201d While you eat lightning and crap thunder? Join your faithful Grue Crew \u2013 Doc Rotten, Chad Hunt, Bill Mulligan, and Jeff Mohr \u2013 as they take a ride-along with David Carradine and Sylvester Stallone in Roger Corman\u2019s Death Race 2000 (1975). Vroom, vroom! Decades of Horror 1970s Episode 185 \u2013 Death Race 2000 (1975) Join the Crew on the Gruesome Magazine YouTube channel! Subscribe today! And click the alert to get notified of new content! https:\/\/youtube.com\/gruesomemagazine In a dystopian future, a cross-country automobile race requires contestants to run down innocent pedestrians to gain points that are tallied based on each kill\u2019s brutality. Director: Paul Bartel Writers: Robert Thom (screenplay by), Charles B. Griffith (screenplay by), Ib Melchior (from his story: \u201cThe Racer\u201d) Producer: Roger Corman 2nd Unit Director: Lewis Teague, Charles B. Griffith,  Selected cast: David Carradine as \u201cFrankenstein\u201d Simone Griffeth as Annie Smith (Frankenstein\u2019s navigator) Sylvester Stallone as Joe \u201cMachine Gun\u201d Viterbo Mary Woronov as Jane \u201cCalamity Jane\u201d Kelly Roberta Collins as Matilda \u201cThe Hun\u201d Martin Kove as Ray \u201cNero the Hero\u201d Lonagan Louisa Moritz as Myra (Joe\u2019s navigator) Don Steele as Junior Bruce (race announcer) Joyce Jameson as Grace Pander (race announcer) Carle Bensen as Harold (race announcer) Sandy McCallum as Mr. President Paul L. Ehrmann as Special Agent (credited as Paul Laurence) Harriet Medin as Thomasina Paine Vince Trankina as Lieutenant Fury Bill Morey as Deacon Fred Grandy as Herman \u2018The German\u2019 Boch (Matilda\u2019s navigator) William Shephard as Pete (Jane\u2019s navigator) Leslie McRay as Cleopatra (Nero\u2019s navigator) Wendy Bartel as Laurie John Favorite as Henry (credited as Jack Favorite) Sandy Ignon as FBI Agent John Landis as Mechanic Darla McDonell as Rhonda Bainbridge Roger Rook as Radio Operator Dick Miller as a member of the Chicken Gang (uncredited) Lewis Teague as a Toreador (uncredited) Join the Grue-Crew as they revisit the campy sci-fi smash-em-up, Death Race 2000 (1975), from Roger Corman\u2019s New World Pictures and director Paul Bartel. The film stars David Carradine (as Frankenstein) opposite pre-Rocky Sylvester Stallone (as Joe \u201cMachine Gun\u201d Viterbo) in the dystopian \u201cfuture\u201d of the year 2000, a time when Americans root for their favorite drivers as they race from New York to New Los Angeles mowing down civilians along the way for points. Machine Gun Viterbo is out for blood while Frankenstein has other plans. Let the shenanigans begin. At the time of this writing, Death Race 2000 is available to stream from Tubi, Popcornflix, Cultpix, and PPV from Apple TV.  Gruesome Magazine\u2019s Decades of Horror 1970s is part of the Decades of Horror two-week rotation with The Classic Era and the 1980s. In two weeks, the next episode, chosen by Bill, will be Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977), showcasing Ray Harryhausen\u2019s genius, Jane Seymour, Patrick Troughton, and . . . Patrick Wayne? That should be interesting. We want to hear from you \u2013 the coolest, grooviest fans: comment on the site or email the Decades of Horror 1970s podcast hosts at feedback@gruesomemagazine.com.  ","author_name":"Decades of Horror | Horror News Radio","author_url":"http:\/\/docrotten.libsyn.com","html":"