Roger Corman's obvious cash-in on the classic Death Race 2000 re-unites him with the iconic David Carradine who plays the part of Kaz Oshay, a desert drifter forced to compete in a futurist motorcycle dueling game known as Death Sport.
Our story begins with Kaz Oshay under attack from a bunch of guys with these odd looking lazer guns that somehow cause whatever they hit to disappear into thin air. Sword in hand and ready for battle Kaz manages to send a few of these bad guys to hell before eventually finding himself captured and confined to a prison cell.
Located in the cell directly across from Kaz is a beautiful vixen known as Deneer, played by the lovely Claudia Jennings. The two make an instant connection and agree to help one another escape the Death Sport. Or something to that effect.
We are then introduced to the bad guys, one of whom is some sort of dictator-President type who gets his rocks off by torturing naked young women in a black room with a bunch of dangling glittery poles and is told by a doctor that his brain is rotting. The other is an ambitious trouble maker working directly beneath the dictator-President (or whatever the hell he is) and has plans to overthrow the current government with his own whacked-out regime.
Fast forward a bit and we finally get our first glimpses of the Death Sport. Kaz, Deneer, the doctor who told the dictator-President guy his brain was rotting and the doctor's son are forced onto motorcycles and made to do battle in an arena covered with land mines. For about ten minutes or so we are treated to some cool explosions and whatnot but nothing all that exciting. Eventually our heroes find an exit and manage to ride off into the desert. The bad guys are in hot pursuit.
Earlier in the film Deneers daughter was stolen by a bunch of mutants. Now free, Deneer and Kaz make it their mission to find the young girl and also evade the bad guys looking for them. When we finally get a good glimpse of the mutants they turn out to be nothing more then a bunch of weirdo's in hoods with the most unintentionally funny and downright cheapest, fake bulging eyeballs ever seen on film. While most viewers would sneer at such a thing I found the ridiculousness of the mutants costumes to be quite charming.
It should be noted that while much of Death Sport is cheaply made, I found the location choices to be highly impressive. The prison cells all have this off white dirty coloration on the walls and a very futuristic look fitting for the scenes they are used. There is also a abandoned factory seen later in the film that sort of drives home that post apocalyptic feel.
Although Death Sport certainly lacks the anarchist charm of Death Race 2000, the movie manages to stand firm and develop its own identity despite the shady motives of its producers. If you stumble across a cheap copy of Death Sport give it a shot, it may be exactly what you are looking for.
Our story begins with Kaz Oshay under attack from a bunch of guys with these odd looking lazer guns that somehow cause whatever they hit to disappear into thin air. Sword in hand and ready for battle Kaz manages to send a few of these bad guys to hell before eventually finding himself captured and confined to a prison cell.
Located in the cell directly across from Kaz is a beautiful vixen known as Deneer, played by the lovely Claudia Jennings. The two make an instant connection and agree to help one another escape the Death Sport. Or something to that effect.
We are then introduced to the bad guys, one of whom is some sort of dictator-President type who gets his rocks off by torturing naked young women in a black room with a bunch of dangling glittery poles and is told by a doctor that his brain is rotting. The other is an ambitious trouble maker working directly beneath the dictator-President (or whatever the hell he is) and has plans to overthrow the current government with his own whacked-out regime.
Fast forward a bit and we finally get our first glimpses of the Death Sport. Kaz, Deneer, the doctor who told the dictator-President guy his brain was rotting and the doctor's son are forced onto motorcycles and made to do battle in an arena covered with land mines. For about ten minutes or so we are treated to some cool explosions and whatnot but nothing all that exciting. Eventually our heroes find an exit and manage to ride off into the desert. The bad guys are in hot pursuit.
Earlier in the film Deneers daughter was stolen by a bunch of mutants. Now free, Deneer and Kaz make it their mission to find the young girl and also evade the bad guys looking for them. When we finally get a good glimpse of the mutants they turn out to be nothing more then a bunch of weirdo's in hoods with the most unintentionally funny and downright cheapest, fake bulging eyeballs ever seen on film. While most viewers would sneer at such a thing I found the ridiculousness of the mutants costumes to be quite charming.
It should be noted that while much of Death Sport is cheaply made, I found the location choices to be highly impressive. The prison cells all have this off white dirty coloration on the walls and a very futuristic look fitting for the scenes they are used. There is also a abandoned factory seen later in the film that sort of drives home that post apocalyptic feel.
Although Death Sport certainly lacks the anarchist charm of Death Race 2000, the movie manages to stand firm and develop its own identity despite the shady motives of its producers. If you stumble across a cheap copy of Death Sport give it a shot, it may be exactly what you are looking for.
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