Turkey Shoot (1982)
6/10
Much Better Than Dead-End Drive-In
7 October 2016
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.
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