I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

Despite being extremely gory, this is a film that is never disturbing, thanks to the cheesy veneer which makes it impossible to take seriously. The movie is a highly ambitious Australian effort to jump on the futuristic bandwagon, taking place in a totalitarian society where 'thinkers' are sent to detention camps run by sadistic wardens. We get half an hour of the usual cruelty/murder/beatings by the guards before a select few inmates are set free and the film turns into a modern-day remake of THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME (although THE RUNNING MAN is a much similar modern-day effort; even the costumes are similar). Making effective use of the Australian outback locations, TURKEY SHOOT is a film that offers non-stop action and adventure, making it hard to dislike. I can only wish that all B-movies like this had such spirit and sensational pacing.The plot boils down to extended death scene after extended death scene. There are burnings, beating, shootings, and all manner of sadistic torture. Amid the escapees and the armed guards, we get hammily-accented British bad guys and even a werewolf (in great makeup) thrown into the mix for good measure! It's hard to see how the late David Hemmings ended up as an executive producer of this trash, but British director Brian Trenchard-Smith shoots a great movie and one of those rare offerings which really deliver the goods. The budget may be low, but this doesn't mean that special effects and explosions are left out; in fact this is one of the most effect-packed films I've seen in a long while, great fun if you don't mind the cheesy nature of them.For viewers who enjoy spotting faces, Turkey Shoot is a film with a diverse cast. Steve Railsback is as unlikable as always as the grim hero, but at least he's different from the rest in this way. The beautiful Olivia Hussey gets to act frightened all the while – you wonder why she's here – whilst the veteran villain is Brit Michael Craig. Yet I enjoyed the over-the-top turns of some of the villains, including ex-wrestler Roger Ward as a sadistic guard and the obese Noel Ferrier as one of the hunters. Other fun moments include an eye impaling inspired by ZOMBIE FLESH EATERS, bone-breaking, and people being crushed to death. The sexy Lynda Stoner acts as the third 'turkey' whilst typecast Australian oddball John Ley is the most unfortunate character of the film. Still, it's hard to concentrate on the cast when the film offers this much gratuitous violence, action, and engaging thrills and spills… this is a B-movie to buy!

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!

Ozploitation. Exploitations colloquial cousin. During a period Ozploitation films where popular and Turkey Shoot is a notable success amongst some of the trash of the Australians attempts at exploitation films. It's fairly controversial 'The Most Dangerous Game' approach has helped it gain a fair amount of cult following over the years and all though it doesn't hold up in the slightest to later films with the same honourable human hunting intentions such as Battle Royale and more recently Exam it still holds up nicely as the definitive Australian approach to the subject matter.Turkey Shoot takes place in a dystopian future, now past, where 'social deviants' can be re-educated and returned to society through concentration style camps. The films narrative starts by following the lives of three newly arrived inmates and their view upon the extreme violence and toil prisoners suffer throughout their stay, mostly beatings and depravity by a hugely entertaining large bold Australian with a handlebar moustache. In the second half of the film the camps owners, safari British style hunters, round up five one-dimensional, to the extreme, characters (we have whore, rebel, rebel mark 2, bad guy and vulnerable) and force them to participate for their possible freedom in a human hunt, staring themselves, called Turkey Shoot. When faced with the dilemma of what to do when hunted each character uses their own personality to forge different ways of dealing with the situation and in true exploitation style extreme violence bordering on hilarity ensues.Brain Trenchard-Smiths direction is riddled with plot holes but the right ingredients are there; i.e. gore, nudity and some kind of circus freak werewolf guy. What makes the film and its direction good is that it doesn't treat itself seriously, there is no character development or even some kind of message or lesson learnt by the end of the film. It just wants to exist to entertain its audience and being a film exploiting violence make money. All the factors that would bother audiences in drama films don't matter in Turkey Shoot and can be disregarded as its honesty in being a technically bad film tells the audience that it wasn't made to win awards or be visually or musically stunning.Naturally the acting is bad. But as all the characters only have one characteristic for the actors to act in the characters are appealing as comical relief from the films serious, even if not shown in the film, underlying story. The English actors are great in playing their roles as the bad guys in typical posh ascents to stress that they are 'better people' than the Ausies. The person that stands out most however is Roger Ward as Chief Guard Ritter, his enthusiastic approach to the violent sadistic character fits perfectly creating a highly memorable giant Australian with a handlebar moustache. This along with the werewolf placed in the film just to chew peoples toes and such are probably the most imaginative parts of the film and make it memorable over many other films in its genre.Visually and musically there is little going on. The film is shot and edited nicely enough but sometimes its conventional style makes you think that the director could have done so much more. The aspect that saves its dull camera work comes from the variety of lush Australian landscapes ranging from the sandy concentration camp style centre to woods, fields of long dry grass and beaches. This helps the film as a whole always capture your interest and I'm in no doubt that without this kind of variety in the sets landscapes the film might seem very boring indeed. Overall Turkey Shoot holds up as an entertaining popcorn flick and with its blend of extreme violence and lovable characters (for the most part, villain-wise anyway) makes a entirely watchable exploitation movie. If you are a fan of the The Most Dangerous Game style situations it might boost itself to a must watch.

Turkey Shoot was the film I was looking forward to most out of a marathon viewing of Ozploitation films, which included "Thirst", "Dead Kids", "The Survivor", and "Patrick".Not expecting a hell of a lot from any of them I was nevertheless surprised at some genuinely good moments in all.Turkey Shoot looked like a winner until one scene that lobbed it into the incompetent category. The scene where Paul rescues Jenny from the clutches of Mallory in the inferno. He grabs Mallory's weapon, shoots him in the balls, then grabs Jenny and runs for it, leaving the weapon behind.Sorry. Even schlock films need to pay attention to this kind of detail.