The featurette 'Killer Score With Composer Paul Chihara' spends 11 minutes with the classically trained musician as he candidly recalls how he created the disco-riffic soundtrack to 'Death Race 2000.' ('We didn't know if we were making a porno movie,' he says.) A new audio commentary from assistant director Lewis Teague and editor Tina Hirsh occasionally delivers a juicy tidbit but is unlikely to earn anyone's undivided attention for its full 78 minutes. Only a couple of the extras are new to this release, part of a series of Roger Corman movies being reissued on DVD this summer. ('Is that a grenade?' asks Simone Griffeth, who plays the race navigator, as she looks directly in Carradine's hand at what is clearly a grenade.

But don't worry, 'Death Race' fans, the excellent visual quality never detracts from the often flagrantly ridiculous dialogue. The new high-definition transfer of the movie, which stars David Carradine and Sylvester Stallone as the two central overly aggressive drivers, makes the picture look sharper than one might expect given its age and given that it was made with the word 'cheap' perpetually on the minds of the filmmakers. Yet something about this less-than-subtle satire of an America obsessed with violence and unquenchable in its thirst for blood still seems relevant, or at least relevant enough to make revisiting 'Death Race' - with all of its blatantly fake blood, comically tricked-out cars, pseudo-social commentary and unnecessary nudity - an entertaining experience. (Mow down an elderly person? That's an easy 100 points in 'Death Race' world.)

president has ever sanctioned a cross-continental speedathon that awards point values based on the quantities and ages of the casualties. Here we are in 2010, a full decade beyond the future envisioned in the 1975 cult hit produced by Corman, and, so far, no U.S. Roger Corman, the master producer of low-budget schlock, may be exaggerating a little when he makes that statement during one of the DVD extras on a new edition of ' Death Race 2000,' out this week on DVD ($19.98) and Blu-ray ($26.97).

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