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Rating:  - 5 stars isn't enough
My 1st introduction to escape 2000 was this uncut version and 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 being turned loose for a chance to escape while being hunted down like animals for sport. Steve Railsback is great as usual up against some nasty Aussie baddies and one half-man half-beast. Special features has director smith disowning the film but his descriptions and stories are hilarious. Prisoners are tortured, babes lose their clothes, a guy gets cut in half, and much more in this freakin' masterpeice! DVD picture is very good WS anamorphic and 5.1 surround sound
Rating: - like watching a 3.2million dollar troma movie
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.
Rating:  - This is a great DVD
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.
Rating: - Only ever seen the butchered U.K video. This should be good.
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
Rating:  - aka Turkey Shoot
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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