Escape 2000

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Summary: This is a great DVD
Review: Being the first time that I have seen this on DVD I only had low expectations. What a surprise! This disc is fantastic! You not only get a pristine transfer of the movie,(and a great soundtrack job)but also some of the most entertaining commentary and features yet. What makes this disc special is that instead of congratulating themselves for making a film classic the filmmakers instead offer some hilarious excuses for their wretched film. The funniest of the interviews is with actress Lynda Stoner who slams the endeavor but skirts around the issue of her lousy performance. All in all: Great job again Anchor Bay. The movie is actually a pretty good exploiter so ignore the critics and get ready to have fun.

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Summary: Only ever seen the butchered U.K video. This should be good.
Review: Escape 2000 was released on video in the U.K during the early eighties, as Turkey Shoot, with a lurid cover design, and the prospect of some good old ultra violence, with just a dash of the in out in out, to mix things up. Not in the hacked up by the BBFC 18cert version that i first viewed, as a teen. So the chance to, after so many years get an unrated in 1.2.35:1 widescreen dvd is great news to me, just pre-ordered mine.
Plus being Anchor Bay they've managed to get the director to do a commentary plus there are interviews with cast and crew. Has to be worth the price of the hunt.....
Tim

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Summary: Low budget, escapist action B-flick for concept fans
Review: Steve Railsback stars in this quirky sci-fi chase flick. It's reminiscent of more recent "mortal combat" style movies where several different characters square off against each other in battles to the death. The nefarious villains hunt the defenseless "fugatives" with high-tech and/or unique weapons of choice that fit their personalities. When I was a kid I played this very "game" with several of my G.I.Joe action figures. G.I. Joe in fatigues (Railsback and crew) vs.assorted action figures costumed in tin-foil and clay (pretty much like the baddies in this movie). There's the sinister hunter, the cyborg, the wookie/werewolf, and the evil temptress. In fact, I think the writer/director played the same game as a child. It is violent and stereotypical of this genre, but I thoroughly enjoyed watching!

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Summary: aka Turkey Shoot
Review: This futuristic actioner directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith is set in a re-education and behaviour modification camp of the Society who imprison "deviants" and endlessly repeat their motto "Freedom is obedience. Obedience is work. Work is life". The screenplay by Jon George and Neill Hicks, based on a story by George Schenck, Robert Williams and exec producer David Hemmings, seems to be influenced by the Nazi death camps, with the leader named Thatcher as presumably a comment on Margaret Thatcher, though the film could hardly be taken seriously as a political allegory, or on any level for that matter.
Of course those in power of the camp are corrupt and they hunt inmates they release in the local bushland, given a head start, including Steve Railsback, Olivia Hussey, and Lynda Stoner, who at one point frollicks in water so we get to see her in wet yellow dungarees.
The treatment allows for various acts of sadism, some gore, and multiple deaths, though thankfully the Society team suffer too. The idea of one hunter having one target is soon abandoned so cross-cutting between the individual hunted is arbitrary. This kind of cat and mouse adventure is morally bankrupt, only giving pleasure to those who enjoy witnessing humiliations. Outre touches include Carmen Duncan's campy lesbian wearing multi-coloured eye shadow, the ludicrous "freak" who appears to be more werewolf than human, and a snake crawling out of a skull's eye socket.

Rating:
Summary: aka Turkey Shoot
Review: This futuristic actioner directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith is set in a re-education and behaviour modification camp of the Society who imprison "deviants" and endlessly repeat their motto "Freedom is obedience. Obedience is work. Work is life". The screenplay by Jon George and Neill Hicks, based on a story by George Schenck, Robert Williams and exec producer David Hemmings, seems to be influenced by the Nazi death camps, with the leader named Thatcher as presumably a comment on Margaret Thatcher, though the film could hardly be taken seriously as a political allegory, or on any level for that matter.
Of course those in power of the camp are corrupt and they hunt inmates they release in the local bushland, given a head start, including Steve Railsback, Olivia Hussey, and Lynda Stoner, who at one point frollicks in water so we get to see her in wet yellow dungarees.
The treatment allows for various acts of sadism, some gore, and multiple deaths, though thankfully the Society team suffer too. The idea of one hunter having one target is soon abandoned so cross-cutting between the individual hunted is arbitrary. This kind of cat and mouse adventure is morally bankrupt, only giving pleasure to those who enjoy witnessing humiliations. Outre touches include Carmen Duncan's campy lesbian wearing multi-coloured eye shadow, the ludicrous "freak" who appears to be more werewolf than human, and a snake crawling out of a skull's eye socket.

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Summary: like watching a 3.2million dollar troma movie
Review: this was absolutelly amazing. I bought this with out knowing what this was or if it was good. The story is amazing the gore is awesome for the time, the acting is amazing, and lots of big explosions. But one of my favorite things is the soundtrack, its filled with lots of electronic synth, helps pull off the futuristic 1995 aspect. this reminds me if lloyd kaufman made a 3 million dollar 70's movie any troma fan would love or peter jackson fan.