Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

One of my all time favorites.

From my favorite movies..

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

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.

Deviants are held at a rehabilitation fortress until they are set into a deadly game of survival, in the hopes of returning to world society.Recently, I watched the director's "Dead-End Drive-In" for the first time. While it was alright, it was not quite the Ozploitation classic I hoped it would be. "Turkey Shoot", on the other hand, has everything you could want: humans hunting humans, an intense shower scene (with both men and women), and some sort of societal commentary.Whether there is such a thing as Ozploitation in the sense that all the exploitation films in Australia have a similar feel, I don't know and rather doubt it. But there are a few gems in there, and this is certainly one of them. In a way, it almost seems like a precursor to "Battle Royale", and is clearly a companion film to "Dead-End Drive-In" with its focus on deviants and outcasts.

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!

This may have been a 20 minute short. But they stretched this farce to feature length. Every scene groans along at a snails pace, action sequences feature gunfire after gunfire, crossbow shot after cross bow shot, MISS MISS MISS for the later half of the movie. This could have been a hoot but it was a dull premise and the characters were all rubbish. Obviously they had a cast of extras available for one days shooting the rest of the time the film is filled with about 7 people all of them not terribly clever walking through various parts of Australia's bush and magically managing to track each other. There's the usually late 70s - early 80s Orwellian plot about big brother ruling everything and no freedom. Yawn. We watched the whole thing because this was in fact one of those rare movies you can't stop watching because it is so unbelievably bad. You want to see what more bad, bad cinema will come with each scene. Save your money or enjoy a really, really awful movie. This dog won't hunt.