Sci-Fi Words of Wisdom: Death Race 200 Edition
“It’s no accident that the word sabotage was invented by the French.”
“It’s no accident that the word sabotage was invented by the French.”
Tuesday June 22 is short of exciting horror, fantasy, and science fiction titles arriving on home video, but cult fans will be pleased to note new DVD and Blu-ray discs for DEATH RACE 2000, the 1978 satire from producer Roger Corman, about a lethal cross-country race, for which drivers improve their ranking by mowing down pedestrians. It’s no secret that DEATH RACE is basically an exploitation rip-off of ROLLERBALL, but in this case the little low-budget movie is far livelier than its big-budget template. The film, which stars the late David Carradine and a pre-ROCKY Sylvester Stallone, has been previously released on DVD several times (including a special edition), but this marks its Blu-ray debut. The high-def disc (featuring a 1.85 transfer from the Interpositive film element) is loaded with bonus features, including:
The week’s other releases include AVATAR THE LAST AIRBENDER: THE COMPLETE BOOK 1 (COLLECTOR’S EDITION) and THE GOTHIC HORROR COLLECTION: NOSFERATU, VAMPYR, AND LE VAMPIRE. The former is a 7-disc collection of the animated series that inspired by upcoming movie by M. Night Shyamalan. The latter is a single-disc featuring the over-rated F.M. Murnau silent adaptation of DRACULA, plus Carl Theodore Dryer’s creepy and critically well regarded VAMPYR (1932) and LE VAMPIRE (1945), a short documentary about vampire bats.
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