#Deathsport

[humanoidhistory]

Deathsport, 1978, produced by Roger Corman.

[steampunkforever]

We are, as a culture, once more accepting how much sword and sorcery wizard-van fantasy rules. Maybe this is a consequence of Stranger Things' normification of Dungeons and Dragons, maybe it's just the fact that Frank Frazetta art rips. It doesn't matter, men in loincloths with magic swords rule.

Of course when discussing Sword and Sorcery media, a certain filmic archetype comes to mind, filled with cheap sets, skimpy costumes, and writing terrible enough to earn the film in question the title of "camp." People romanticize this half-remembered sort of film the same way that horror fans with romanticize Chopping Mall or Blood Rage. The thing is that when you come face to face with real-life examples of this sort of fantasy movie, it turns out to be much worse. Such is the case with the 1978 film Deathsport, a movie purportedly supposed to follow up Death Race 2000, a prime example of films that suck.

Despite some very fun concepts and cool swords, the film is a mess. Production itself was apparently a trainwreck, with half the cast and crew whacked out on drugs at any given moment, and preproduction was probably much of the same, considering the incoherent plot. It's a properly bad film, and the reshoots meant to shoehorn in more gratuitous nudity (as well as a room full of hanging christmas lights that also kill you?) do absolutely nothing to make the film better.

When I tell you how bad this is, I do it with full affection. This is a Corman-produced film and he had a specific touch and formula to his stuff that adds a bit of shine to a film that even its stars admit to being mostly exploding motorcycles, titillation, and poor narrative construction. This is a film you'd see Mystery Science Theater 3000 do an episode on, and that lends a charm to it in itself.

Still a very bad movie, would not suggest watching alone and sober.

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[markonpark]

ENDS SUNDAY! eBay, MarkOnParkWorld: DEATHSPORT 1978 Vintage 1-sheet Movie Poster

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Remembering Deathsport star Richard Lynch on the anniversary of his death.

R.I.P. (1940 - 2012)

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[inthewindtunnel]

Deathsport

End Of The World

[sonicziggy]

"End of the World" by Deathsport https://ift.tt/4vJV1uR

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Claudia Jennings Deathsport (1978)

[hannibal-or-maybe-just-rex]

1978: Deathsport. IMDb 4.1.

[le-souriant]

Listen to it and much more on the #MusicMonday playlist.

@osornios

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[moonshynecybin]

do you think you would make it in moto2 or motogp, just based on the vibes? (no matter if u have a license or not)

hellllllll no brother. like even outside of the physical ability to do it, you absolutely HAVE to have that dawg in you and i literally quit my family’s deathsport when i was a teenager bc i was casey stoner style freaked out every time i stepped in a kayak

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Remembering cult cinema icon Claudia Jennings on the anniversary of her date of her death.

R.I.P. (1940 - 1979)

[chemiosmotic]

the thing about arbitred is that it engenders in you the exact same mix of horrified fascination that it does in arbitrage