#NERO THE HERO DEATH RACE 2000 FULL#
Baby Boomers: A bomb disguised as a baby (with other members of La Résistance pretending to be a family on a picnic for bait) is what kills Nero and Cleopatra.Ax-Crazy: Joe Viterbo, nicknamed "Machine Gun Joe the Terrible" fires his Thompson submachine gun at the audience for booing him, and runs over his own pit crew later on.Hell, Frankenstein is elected as his replacement. President is run over by Frankenstein and is completely unmourned. As the smirking survivors peek out at the departing Calamity, Machine Gun Joe races up from behind and runs them over. However the first two pull the manhole cover shut before the third has a chance to jump in. Three greasers play a Game of Chicken by standing out in the road, then jumping down a manhole as Calamity Jane approaches.He spares the seniors and splatters the nurses. The nurses at the old folks retirement home, who try to dump their charges out on the road for Frankenstein to run over.Especially Nero and Cleopatra, who die when they try to run over a baby, only to find it was a dummy packed with explosives.
#NERO THE HERO DEATH RACE 2000 DRIVERS#
Actually there's a bomb implanted in it, set to go off when Mr President shakes hands with the winner. However his arm has been replaced, ostensibly by a mechanical arm that can shift gears in less than 1/20th of a second. This is just propaganda however to hide that he's a Legacy Character. Artificial Limbs: Frankenstein has been in so many wrecks, he's more machine now, than man.Turns out the seemingly indestructible Frankenstein is actually a Legacy Character whom the government replaces whenever he's killed or too injured to continue racing. She insists on doing so, only to find an unmarked David Carradine even the burn scars around the eyeholes are fake. Anti-Climactic Unmasking: Frankenstein warns his new navigator not to take off his mask as he's a grotesque horror from all his racing injuries and reconstructive surgery.When he takes off his outfit, it's revealed he has no prosthetics at all. An Arm and a Leg: Frankenstein, according to the race hype.She's an open Neo-Nazi, but it may just be for show.
Matilda The Hun is announced as being from Milwaukee, a city known for its German heritage.
It received a remake in 2008, which went for the Darker and Edgier option and set itself up as a semi-prequel, a Spiritual Successor with The Asylum's Mockbuster Death Racers, which retained the dark comedy, and then finally in 2017 an official Corman-produced sequel, Death Race 2050.Īlso notable for inspiring the controversial Carmageddon series.