Escape 2000

My 1st introduction to escape 2000 was this uncut version that blew my expectations away! This has it all and then some. Anyone with distaste for the government ends up in a nazi style camp, where nothing good happens to them except rapes, beatings, lashings, and being turned loose for a chance to escape while being hunted down like animals for sport. Steve Railsback (the stuntman, lifeforce) is great as usual up against some nasty Aussie baddies and one half-man half-beast who's seen too much "professional" wrestling on T.V. Blondie Lynda Stoner is a babe and gives Dolly Parton a run for her money. The all out assault on the camp at the end including fighter jets, showed some decent budget. Prisoners are tortured, babes lose their clothes, a guy gets cut in half, and much more in this freakin' masterpeice! Special features has director Brian Trenchard Smith disowning the film, but his descriptions and stories are hilarious. 16x9 DVD picture is very good as is the 5.1 surround sound.

A/K/A "Turkey Shoot", I discovered this flick thru the great Aussie exploitation documentary, "Not Quite Hollywood". A great find, the film is a bold, shameless women-in-prison / futuristic-death-chase hybrid with virtually nothing but action. After about (literally) one minute of exposition, we are thrown into the scenario: three attractive young people are hauled into a cruel "re-education" camp, where they can either put up with brutal torture or plan their escape. They do the latter. The last half of the film is set up as a "Most Dangerous Game"-style death hunt. As the actors will tell you in the DVD extras, anything that was not an action sequence was cut from the script before shooting. That makes for a lack of motivation but an overabundance of fistfights, shower nudity, eye-gouging, bloody motor vehicle mayhem, etc. My best out-of-nowhere item in the film is the half-man/half-wolf "pet" one of the hunters owns... no explanation for its condition is given whatsoever! It is just dropped into the story without the bat of an eye. Love it. Made around the same time as "Dawn of the Dead", and with a similar vibe... chaos, violence, nihilism, despair, all set to a pulsing synth score. 4/5.

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.