Turkey Shoot
Turkey Shoot is a 1982 film from Australia, directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith, running 93 minutes. reelscum files it under Ozploitation and video nasty.
- Year
- 1982 · 1980s films
- Country
- Australia
- Runtime
- 93 min
- Director
- Brian Trenchard-Smith
- Updated
- 10 Aug 2026
- Obscurity
- obscure (59/100)
- Also known as
- Blood Camp Thatcher · Escape 2000 · Turkey Shoot - OZ
Defined in the glossary: Ozploitation, Video nasty
The budget vanished mid-shoot and they kept going. Chaotic, mean, fun.
The budget collapsed partway through and the production simply kept going, which gives this Ozploitation dystopia a demented, anything-goes energy. Inmates of a future re-education camp are hunted for sport by the elite, and the film piles on gore, camp and cruelty with no restraint whatsoever.
It is a mess, and the mess is most of the fun. Nobody involved seems to have agreed on what tone they were aiming for, so they hit all of them. Later reappraised as trash of a very entertaining kind.
Chaotic, tasteless and weirdly beloved.
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Written about
- Banned, cut and confiscated
A Fulci print flown out of the country, an Australian rating that just means no, and a German court that filed The Evil Dead under criminal violence. Three states, three machines for making a film disappear.
- Ozploitation: the Australian genre boom, 1971 to 1986
An adults-only certificate, a tax loophole, and a Melbourne doctor who knew what happens to bodies at speed. Australia's fifteen years of cheap, mean, brilliant genre film.
The cycle in depth
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- The Exorcist was banned on video in Britain by one censor
The Exorcist passed uncut for British cinemas in 1974, then had no legal UK video release from 1988 to 1999 because one censor would not certify the tape.
On these lists
- Essential Ozploitation
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Filed alongside
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