Though when we glance into the future - but not so far as the immeasurably far-flung year 2000 - and find that the film's director, Paul Bartel, would later oversee Eating Raoul, it becomes at least a little bit less surprising and much easier to believe that this mix of grimy genre fare with sociological insight could exist. For it very possibly is the most trenchant satire &c., that I have seen anyway (and there are, of course, many satires I have yet to encounter), in the most surprising and delightful way conceivable. If I were to say to you, a propos of nothing, "the most trenchant satire of American bloodlust and broken-down media culture of the 1970s was produced by Roger Corman," would you believe me? Don't bother answering, because I refuse to believe anybody would I'm the biggest Corman fan I know personally, and I was still taken completely by surprise by Death Race 2000 the first time I saw it.
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