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Back to the finderTHE FILM / 1982
Turkey Shoot posterA FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOK

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MOVIE1982 1h 33m AUS

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Its state-enforced youth death game matches Turkey Shoot’s ruthless authoritarian satire, savage action, and escalating survival pressure, with the same gleefully confrontational exploitation edge.

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A falsely accused prisoner is turned into televised prey by a totalitarian regime, delivering a similarly broad, violent, darkly comic collision of dystopian control and human-hunt thrills.

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Fortress

Why this pick

This lean prison-break dystopia shares the camp-bound oppression, sadistic officials, bodily menace, and fast-moving B-movie energy that make Turkey Shoot so enjoyably nasty.

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Punishment Park

Why this pick

A harsher, more pseudo-documentary companion to Turkey Shoot: political detainees face an officially sanctioned pursuit that turns authoritarian rhetoric into raw, increasingly desperate survival tension.

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Why this pick

Its absurd future regime, state-approved murder spectacle, cartoon brutality, and satirical exploitation tone make it an ideal fit for Turkey Shoot’s unapologetically trashy dystopian bite.

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01 / THE STORY

A little about the film.

In a near-future totalitarian state, so-called "social deviants" are sent to mass prison camps for re-education and behaviour modification. The new arrivals at Camp 47 are Chris Walters, a shopkeeper accused of helping a rebel; Rita Daniels, a suspected prostitute; and Paul Anders, a political dissident who has escaped from several other camps. Camp Master Charles Thatcher subjects his wards to brutal, inhuman treatment; Chris barely avoids being raped by the sadistic guards, and Paul is tortured for intervening. Their cellmates Griffin and Dodge separately plot escapes, but their on-going attempts is unknowingly surveilled by the guards.

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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME

The people who bring it to life.

Olivia Hussey

Olivia Hussey

Chris Walters

Michael Craig

Michael Craig

Charles Thatcher

Carmen Duncan

Jennifer

Noel Ferrier

Secretary Mallory

Lynda Stoner

Rita Daniels

Roger Ward

Chief Guard Ritter

Michael Petrovitch

Tito

Bill Young

Griff