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Released
1975 · FILM

Death Race 2000

A charismatic champion returns to a deadly cross‑country road race where points are earned by killing pedestrians, only to discover his passenger is an undercover rebel intent on ending the murderous spectacle.

In the year 2000, hit and run driving is no longer a felony. It's the national sport!

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Runtime
80 min
ActionComedySci-Fi

Synopsis

In a crude and violent future, the government organizes a brutal, nationwide race that garners public attention through its deadly nature. Competitors earn points by striking pedestrians, and five teams—each consisting of one male and one female—compete using heavily armed vehicles. Frankenstein, the enigmatic reigning champion who has become a national hero, returns for the race with a passenger who is a member of an underground resistance group.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 18

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Tina HirschShot by Tak FujimotoScored by Paul Chihara

Box Office

1975 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 27× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$8.0M

Budget$300K
Worldwide gross$8.0M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Frankensteins Todesrennende
  • La Course à la mort de l'an 2000fr
  • Anno 2000 - La corsa della morteit

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