Turkey Shoot (film)

Turkey Shoot, also known as Escape 2000 and Blood Camp Thatcher, is a 1982 Australian dystopian futurist exploitation film directed by Brian TrenchardSmith and starring Steve Railsback, Olivia Hussey and Michael Craig. The cast is a mix of international actors, Australian soap opera actors and television personalities.

In the totalitarian near future, social deviants are sent to prison camps for reeducation and behaviour modification. The new arrivals at Camp 47 are Chris Walters Olivia Hussey, a shopkeeper accused of helping a rebel Rita Daniels Lynda Stoner, a suspected prostitute and Paul Anders Steve Railsback, a dissident who has escaped from several other camps. After suffering brutal treatment at the hands of Camp Master Charles Thatcher Michael Craig and his chief enforcer, Ritter Roger Ward, the prisoners accept a deadly deal. They will be human prey in a turkey shoot, which Thatcher has organised for Secretary Mallory Noel Ferrier, and VIPs Jennifer Carmen Duncan and Tito Michael Petrovich. If they can evade the heavily armed guests in the surrounding jungle until sundown, Chris, Rita and Paul will be set free. As the turkey shoot progresses, the tables are turned, and the prisoners become the hunters, culminating in a freeforall slaughter terminated by a government napalm airstrike.The original script was sort of like I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang meets The Most Dangerous Game, with 70 pages of Chain Gang and Most Dangerous Game lasted aboutpages. I didnt think that was good balance. Also it was set in the depression era Deep South. We had tax based financing in place on condition that it was supposed to be set in Australia. So I suggested we set it in the future, and make it more universal. We wanted to make a tongue in cheek but gutsy action movie with subtext about corporate fascism at the beginning of the Reagan era. He had Australia frightened...Ronald Ray Gun cartoons were often spray painted on Sydney walls in 1981 So we hired Neill amp Jon to redo it. Then of course, there were days when I was writing pages myself during the shooting. ........

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