DEATHSPORT

DEATHSPORT. Henry Suso and Allan Arkush, dirs. Roger Corman, prod. USA: New World Pictures, 1978. David Carradine, star.

Compendium of clichés from several genres, including SF. Note antithesis and conflation of horses and "death machines": small motorcycles (glorifed trail bikes). Note also threatening containment of hero and heroine in electrifiable cells. Given production by the highly conscious Roger Corman, such use inticates that these motifs were clichés worth having some fun with by the 1970s.