Death Race 2000 (1975)

Death Race 2000 (1975)

Author: Geekscape December 4, 2025 Duration: 33:22
Did you wake up today think the HMN boys were going to watch a 50-year-old dystopian scifi movie starring David Carradine and Sylvester Stallone that’s creepily prescient of what 2025 would look like? Neither did we, but here we are discussing DEATH RACE 2000 (1975). In a future America, the President is a worthless politician spending his days in Moscow, is more of a TV personality than statesman, and has created a gladiator-style race where the drivers kayfabe their way across the country running people over for points. Oh almost forgot, a huge part of the country is apparently Nazi lovers. Sound familiar? Listen to us enumerate how depressingly accurate these predictions really are. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Author: Language: English Episodes: 100

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Urban Legends: Final Cut (2000) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 55:02
If there’s one thing this show’s hosts love, it’s movies that really peel back the layers of what film schools is truly like. Case in point, 2000’s URBAN LEGEND: FINAL CUT, a tale in which a film professor decides to ste…
Blood Tracks (1985) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 54:58
A good chunk of us are probably buried under snow right now, so why not grab our skis and hit the slopes? While we’re at it, we might as well crank some obscure 80s Swedish hair metal but be careful - they rock so hard t…
The Gate 2 (1990) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 50:04
Few horror tropes get our blood pumping quite like a little heavy metal and Satanic panic, so you must be wondering why it took us this long to get to THE GATE 2: THE TRESPASSERS (1990). Well, we don’t have a good answer…
Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 52:07
Our tradition of letting listeners vote on the first movie of the year for us has once again led to the most obvious choice: more kinder trauma! If you’re a millenial and weren’t homeschooled in the late 80s, you were sc…
Shadow of the Vampire (2000) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 40:18
You know what’s crazy? The fact that as of today, Willem Dafoe has now starred in not one, but TWO Nosferatu films. A24’s retelling is now playing in theaters and so we decided now would be a perfect time to discuss a pe…
Christian Cringe Preview [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 20:25
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Dark Angel (1990) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 58:38
Gather round, kids - we’ve got a heartwarming story for you about a Christmas long ago (1990) in a magical place called “Houston” where a detective on a mission encounters an alien with an arm-mounted drain snake to crea…
Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 40:21
There’s a Friday the 13th in December, so grab your Santa hat and hockey mask because we’re celebrating the holiday with one of the few remaining films from the franchise that hasn’t been covered yet, the 1984 classic FR…
Watcher in the Woods (1980) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 57:26
December is an month chock FULL of kindertrauma, so what better way to kick it off than get lost in the fever dream Disney classic THE WATCHER IN THE WOODS (1980)? The trailer seemed to pop up on every 80s-era live actio…
Man's Best Friend (1993) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 47:07
Imagine a new take on Frankenstein’s Monster, but instead of it being a human… it’s a dog. And instead of it being horror, it’s almost pure comedy. Congrats, you’ve successfully pitched MAN’S BEST FRIEND (1993) to a ciga…