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Other competitors include Calamity Jane (Bartel regular Mary Woronov of Rock 'n Roll High School) and Matilda the Hun (Roberta Collins of Caged Heat). The government's racing wunderkind, Frankenstein (David Carradine), is a biomechanically reconstructed superstar in competition with the bitter Joe Viturbo (a young Sylvester Stallone). The elderly and children earn the highest points, of course. In the far off year 2000, America has become a bloodthirsty fascist state where fans gather for the "Death Race," in which outrageous contestants race their cars across the country and earn points for the number of pedestrians they hit along the way. One of the high points, Death Race 2000, was intended to ride on the coattails of the ponderous MGM sci-fi/action/sports epic, Rollerball what director Paul Bartel ( Eating Raoul, Private Parts) delivered was a minor masterpiece of bloody social satire. Back in the mid-'70s, Roger Corman made a minor cottage industry out of women in prison and horror films thanks to his wild and wonderful New World Pictures. Score 100 points for this fast paced drive-in masterpiece, a rare example of a B-movie outdoing the big budget Hollywood product it's trying to imitate.