They all hop in their buggies and start mowing ’em down, stopping at various checkpoints so the filmmakers can squeeze in a few gratuitous sexual interludes.
Matilda the Hun is a Nazi who commandeers ‘The Buzz Bomb’, a Karmann Ghia shaped like a V-1 bomb cowgirl Calamity Jane’s ride is fitted with bull’s horns while the toga-wearing Nero the Hero drives ‘The Lion’, a cat-shaped Fiat 850 Spider. He drives ‘The Monster’, an alligator-themed ’68 Vee-Dub with a modified Corvette body, powered by a flat-six Corvair.įrankenstein’s arch-rival, ‘Machine Gun’ Joe Viterbo – played by Sly Stallone, who gives an hilarious performance as the perennial runner-up – runs a black rod with a machete on the bonnet and mounted machine guns. Supposedly part-human and part-machine, rebuilt after numerous prangs, he wears an S&M mask to hide his disfigurement. Mysterious hero Frankenstein (David Carradine) is the government’s champion and a national icon. The big score, however, is anyone over 75, worth a big 100 points.įive racers take part in the rally, each with a navigator/sex partner, and a car that matches their ideology. The scoring system is easy to follow: women are worth 10 points more than men in all age brackets, teenagers are worth 40 points, toddlers under 12 are worth 70.
The citizens are kept satisfied through gory gladiatorial games like the Transcontinental Road Race, a three-day, coast-to-coast murder rally where points are scored not just for speed but for the number of pedestrians killed. In the future, a fascist regime run by Mr President (Sandy McCallum) holds power over the population.
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