{"id":13150,"date":"2016-02-18T03:48:35","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T08:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=13150"},"modified":"2017-05-10T13:09:15","modified_gmt":"2017-05-10T17:09:15","slug":"ozploitation-at-its-finest-turkey-shoot-1982","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=13150","title":{"rendered":"Ozploitation at its Finest: Turkey Shoot (1982)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-13155\" src=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/TurkeyShoot_poster.jpg\" alt=\"TurkeyShoot_poster\" width=\"258\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/TurkeyShoot_poster.jpg 497w, https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/TurkeyShoot_poster-198x300.jpg 198w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 258px) 100vw, 258px\" \/>Back in December I reviewed for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rue-morgue.com\/#!online-store\/c4rc\/!\/Rue-Morgue-162-December-2015\/p\/57013186\/category=11406406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rue Morgue magazine<\/a> Synapse\u2019s swell Blu-ray edition of<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=13149\">Turkey Shoot <\/a><\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=13149\">\/ <strong>Escape 2000<\/strong><\/a>, a classic 1982 ozploitation film that\u2019s endured as a classic of glorious excess and exploitation goodness, and I\u2019ve expanded the piece with more details on the extras and its unique elements (a few being eerily contemporary).<\/p>\n<p>An expanded review of Cult Epics excellent Blu-ray of <strong>Angst<\/strong> (1983) is also in progress, plus a pair of Jess Franco classics.<\/p>\n<p>Those free tonight should\u00a0head down to The Royal Cinema to catch a 35mm screening of Don Coscarelli\u2019s <strong>Phantasm II <\/strong>(1988), which starts at 8pm, as is part of RM\u2019s ongoing Cinemacabre Movie Nights series. Visit RM\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rue-morgue.com\/#!events\/c1zg5\" target=\"window\">website<\/a> or check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1685863385030728\/\" target=\"window\">Facebook post<\/a> for more info on this rare chance to see a film print of this cult classic.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m pre-committed to catching the Toronto production at the Alumnae Theatre of Rob Becker\u2019s <strong>Defending the Caveman<\/strong> starring Andrew Chapman. Expect a review and maybe some bonus media this weekend. Show details are available at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecaveman.ca\/\" target=\"window\">official website<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheCavemanToronto2015\" target=\"window\">Facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Also coming soon: <a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=13610\">an in-depth review of KINO\u2019s<strong> The Mask<\/strong><\/a> (1961) Blu-ray and DVD (each sporting different extras\u2026 grrr) and some bonus media with very trippy visuals, \u2018hand-crafted\u2019 using a 1976 Atari Video Music synthesizer.<\/p>\n<p>When the footage is projected on a big monitor, your head may feel like it\u2019s about to explode.<\/p>\n<p>Ahem:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-13159\" src=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/TheMask_snapshot-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"TheMask_snapshot\" width=\"565\" height=\"318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/TheMask_snapshot-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/TheMask_snapshot-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/TheMask_snapshot-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/TheMask_snapshot.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 565px) 100vw, 565px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Cheers,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mark R. Hasan<\/strong>, Editor<br \/>\n<strong>KQEK.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blu-ray review of Brian Trenchard-Smith&#8217;s 1982 ozploitation classic Turkey Shoot \/ Escape 2000 (Severin) + Phantasm II comes to The Royal via Rue Morgue&#8217;s Cinemacabre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13156,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[4255,4261,2562,2563,4260],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/TurkeyShoot_featured.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-3q6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13150"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13150"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16001,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13150\/revisions\/16001"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}