Turkey Shoot (aka Blood Camp
Thatcher, Escape 2000)
1982, Australia
dir. Brian
Trenchard-Smith
cast: Steve
Railsback, Olivia Hussey, Roger Ward
In a future
Australia on the verge of anarchy after a holocaust, political
dissidents are sent to “re-education” camps. At Camp Thatcher,
the most notorious of these, the governor and friends use the inmates
in brutal hunts.
The plot's the
standard Most Dangerous Game hunted-turning-the-tables-on-the-hunter
schtick, but with some ridiculously over the top deaths- exploding
arrows to heads, a hairy mutant who looks like a refugee from Carry
On Screaming gets cut in half by a bulldozer, heads get shot clean
off, hands severed and so on. If you believe the stories, live
ammunition was apparently used in some scenes to save money and keep
the actors on their toes and the hand severing scene came close to happening for real after one of the actors missed her cue. A classic piece of Ozploitation trash.
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