Turkey Shoot (2014)

Turkey Shoot (2014) is the kind of lean, mean midnight movie that doesn’t pretend to be prestige—it just grabs you by the collar and sprints, powered by a nasty little near-future hook and a wicked Ozploitation grin. Jon Hewitt stages the whole ordeal like a grimy carnival of violence and spectacle, where reality TV sadism meets survival-action tension, and Dominic Purcell sells the desperation with a bruised, no-nonsense toughness. It’s cheap in the way cult fans often mean as a compliment: scrappy, punchy, and eager to entertain, with enough cynical bite to keep the mayhem from feeling hollow. If you’re allergic to sleaze, brutality, or B-movie rough edges, it might not be your ride—but if you want a fun, feral action watch that knows exactly what it is, this one hits the target.

Turkey Shoot (2014) is aiming for a slick, near-future “man hunted for entertainment” thriller with a dash of satirical bite about media bloodlust. The problem is it rarely generates real tension: the pacing drags, the setup feels choppy, and the action often looks more like staged scuffling than sharp, gripping set pieces. If you’re coming for a tight survival game with clever escalation and a pointed message, you’ll likely find it muddled and oddly toothless. Still, Dominic Purcell has the right tough-guy presence, and if you’re in the mood for a cheap, pulpy B-movie riff on The Running Man, you might get some guilty-pleasure value out of it.