Deathsport

1978
R
1h 22m

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4.1/10

2.6K

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Action Drama Sci-Fi Sport Thriller

Futuristic Science Fiction about a sport to the death, using "destructocycles".Futuristic Science Fiction about a sport to the death, using "destructocycles".Futuristic Science Fiction about a sport to the death, using "destructocycles".

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IMDb RATING

4.1/10

2.6K

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Trivia
A follow-up of sorts to the film Death Race 2000 (1975), this film's failure at the box office scrapped all of the plans for a second follow-up film that would have been titled "Deathworld".

Goofs
When a Destructocycle drives off a cliff, the cable it is attached to is clearly visible.

Quotes
Kaz Oshay: Like sand in the wind, keep moving.

Alternate versions
The print used for Shout Factory's 2011 DVD was a composite version consisting of an interpostive created for TV showings, missing all the violence and nudity, so a splicy 35mm theatrical print containing all of said material had to be reinstated into the print filling in the missing footage.

Connections
Edited into Saturday the 14th Strikes Back (1988)

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3/10

"Send in more death machines!"

Anyone visiting the Hollywood hills during the late seventies had be prepared for running across film crews perpetrating monstrosities like this little beauty on which Quentin Tarantino gorged during his misspent youth.

New World supremo Roger Corman's name on the credits wasn't the recommendation it was fifteen years earlier, especially as it suffers from the usual seventies infelicities of ghastly haircuts, hideous synthesised music, hordes of mutants with eyes like ping balls and exteriors that look like giant jelly moulds.

Feminists might take issue at casting a Playboy playmate as the female lead, but the late Miss Jennings wields a mean blaster and never wears anything remotely as humiliating as David Carradine's loin cloth (a sight it's going to take me a long time to forget).