Salubfoto It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

Mischa Redfern I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

Mehdi Hoffman There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

Anoushka Slater While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

grantss In a totalitarian country, any subversives, undesirables and "deviants" are sent to a prison camp to be rehabilitated and reeducated. The camp is run in fascist fashion, with guards torturing and killing prisoners for sport. Their pinnacle of the guards oppression is an event where a select band of prisoners are set free in the surrounding bush, to be hunted by the guards and special guests for sport - the Turkey Shoot.Quite trashy with very low production values, but you know this going in - this is, after all, a B-grade exploitation movie. However, Turkey Shoot is pretty bad even by that genre's standards.Basic, lame plot. Really not much too it. There is some intrigue about how the prisoners escape their ordeal, but it becomes quite predictable, quite quickly.Some incredibly stupid, implausible scenes - the writers and director weren't even trying to make things seem realistic. For example, man has his legs crushed by a bulldozer. Blood magically starts gushing from his chest and mouth. Now I'm no doctor but that seems medically impossible.Then there's the performances. They're largely of the ultra-hammy variety, with the actor who played the whip-cracking chief guard particularly bad. However, Olivia Hussey puts in a good performance, especially considering the script and direction she had to work with, and is about the only good thing about the movie. She looks distinctly out of place in this movie, being a decent actor and having starred in movies like Romeo and Juliet and Death on the Nile. Her career must have been in a massive slump for her to agree to appear in this.

HumanoidOfFlesh I remember seeing "Turkey Shoot" for the first time several years ago and it surely left the lasting impression on me.Set in a totalitarian future Paul(Steve Railsback),Rita(Lynda Stoner)and Chris(Olivia Hussey)have been labelled 'deviants' by the government and are transported to a correctional camp where prisoners are brought into line or tortured and killed.The correctional camp is led by cruel Mr.Thatcher,whose motto goes like this:"freedom is obedience;obedience is work;work is life".It's time to begin 'turkey shoot',in which inmates,given a head start,are then hunted by camp authorities armed with guns,tranquilizer darts,exploding arrows,bazookas and a cannibal wolf-man."Turkey Shoot" surely moves fast.It's full of violence,torture and gore and I must say that Orwellian concept is a nice touch.9 out of 10.A cult classic!

bdl7431 This movie feels extremely derivative - when I watch it, I get the feeling that I have seen similar scenes from a number of other movies - Bridge over the River Kwai opening, when the older inmates look a the new arrivals (early in the film), someone with coke bottle glasses which reminds me of Dustin Hoffman's character in Papillion, the somewhat sadistic camp head guard - Cool Hand Luke and, in particular, the little known "The Hill" - overall, predictable. Other than the nudity and the scenes of the F-111s flying around - it's really just a bit of forgettable fluff.Also, I have the supposedly uncut version - I did see this film on cable years ago, and frankly I don't understand what the additional scenes are that made up this 10 minutes. It may be some of the graphic violence, nudity and swearing.

BA_Harrison According to the quotes on my Turkey Shoot DVD insert (the uncut, widescreen UK release by HardGore), "...the bloody action is almost non-stop..." and the film contains "...the most head explosions since 'Scanners'...". Although neither of these are particularly accurate descriptions—the bulk of the gore is reserved for the latter half of the film and there is only one head explosion—it is still an enjoyably silly and violent exploit flick that is well worth checking out.In Aussie director Brian Trenchard-Smith's Orwellian vision of the near-future, years of social disturbance and moral decay have led to the rise of an über-fascistic government that no longer welcomes free speech, and clamps down hard on those who deviate from the rules: anyone who threatens to upset the status-quo is shipped to a correctional facility for 'reprogramming'.The toughest of all of these camps is led by a nasty, power-hungry sadist named Thatcher (Michael Craig), who controls his prisoners through the use of fear and violence. Any infraction of the camp's rules is dealt with most severely, with punishments ranging from a simple beating (or rape, if you happen to be a pretty lady) by the camp's bully-boy guards, to a hideously painful public execution.When the camp's three newest arrivals Chris, Rita and Paul (Olivia Hussey, Lynda Stoner, and Steve Railsback) are offered a slim chance of freedom, by becoming the prey in a man-hunt organised to satisfy the blood-lust of several influential guests, they reluctantly accept, reasoning that they stand more chance of survival taking part in Thatcher's hunt than if they remain in the camp. Along with two veteran inmates, they are released, only to be pursued several hours later by the hunting party: Thatcher (armed with a high-powered rifle), a cross-bow wielding lesbian, a slimy overweight politician led by two of Thatcher's henchmen, and a maniac in a bulldozer who uses a hairy circus freak to trap and kill his prey (pretty cool, huh?).Of course, it comes as no surprise which inmates are bagged, and which survive, but with so much cheesy gore on display, who cares if the outcome is a mite predictable? Viewers are treated to a machete in the head, dissection by 'dozer blade, a jungle style booby-trap impalement, removal of hands by machete, a couple of bloody arrow attacks, ONE (yes, one) head explosion, and the complete obliteration of an upper torso by machine-gun fire. Add an explosive B-movie finalé and an atmospheric synth score by Mad Max composer Brian May, and you've got one heck of a fun film!