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Screen cap from promotional trailer
form y separately published work icon Turkey Shoot (International) assertion single work   film/TV   fantasy   science fiction  
Alternative title: Blood Camp Thatcher; Escape 2000
Issue Details: First known date: 1982... 1982 Turkey Shoot
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Adaptations

form y separately published work icon Turkey Shoot Jon Hewitt , Belinda McClory , ( dir. Jon Hewitt ) Australia : F. G. Film Productions Thatcher Productions , 2014 8133324 2014 single work film/TV science fiction fantasy horror

'TURKEY SHOOT is a smash-hit live reality show combining stalk and chase adventure with the ultimate twist. If you win you can have whatever your heart desires – but lose – you die. Disgraced ex-Navy Seal Rich Tyler attempts to clear his name by becoming the next contestant – number #777 in the world’s highest rating reality show.'

Source: Screen Australia. (Sighted: 3/12/2014)

Notes

  • Turkey Shoot is considered an international work by AustLit because it has American script-writers and because its Australian production (and vaguely Australian setting) is driven by specific tax breaks.

    Note also Brian Trenchard-Smith's comment that the original script 'was set in the depression era Deep South [of the US]. We had tax based financing in place on condition that it was supposed to be set in Australia. So I suggested we set it in the future, and make it more universal' ('Interview with Brian Trenchard-Smith', Arrow in the Head [horror-film fansite], 5 August 2011).

  • On Trailers From Hell, Brian Trenchard-Smith discusses the trailer for Turkey Shoot in a four-minute video: https://trailersfromhell.com/turkey-shoot-2/ (Sighted: 21/06/2017)

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Works about this Work

Dead Heart : Australia’s Horror Cinema Geoff Stanton , 2018 single work column
— Appears in: FilmInk , 31 October 2018;
No Film for Chickens Brian Trenchard-Smith , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Perspectives Essays 2010;

'INT. LONDON UNDERGROUND PLATFORM DAY

England 1983. Commuters stand in silent groups awaiting the next rattling arrival on the Piccadilly Line.

Work, consume, be silent, die - is etched on the faces of many. The Thatcher Years.

Only two men are having a conversation; one, a young movie geek, the other, a national newspaper film critic (although in fact he sees himself as a Cinema Critic)' (Introduction)

No Film for Chickens Brian Trenchard-Smith , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Perspectives Essays 2010;

'INT. LONDON UNDERGROUND PLATFORM DAY

England 1983. Commuters stand in silent groups awaiting the next rattling arrival on the Piccadilly Line.

Work, consume, be silent, die - is etched on the faces of many. The Thatcher Years.

Only two men are having a conversation; one, a young movie geek, the other, a national newspaper film critic (although in fact he sees himself as a Cinema Critic)' (Introduction)

Dead Heart : Australia’s Horror Cinema Geoff Stanton , 2018 single work column
— Appears in: FilmInk , 31 October 2018;
Last amended 21 Jun 2017 09:21:30
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