Olivia Hussey in Escape 2000 (1982)

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Popularly titled Turkey Shoot and Blood Camp Thatcher, the impossibly grisly splatter film Escape 2000 (1982) takes a familiar premise and pushes it to its punishing limits. Set in the bleakly post-apocalyptic “future” of the year 2000, the film explores the horrors that unfold at a mind-control camp for juvenile delinquents. Steve Railsback and Olivia Hussey are two of the wayward Aussie teens with the bad fortune of getting shipped off to the remote encampment. There they’re treated to hard labor and a variety of mental and physical tortures. The trial culminates in a so-called “Turkey Shoot”, in which the prisoners are released into the outback to be hunted like animals. One thing’s for sure––Olivia Hussey’s come a long way since her Romeo and Juliet (1968) days. Instead of baring her cleavage in fair Verona, the Argentine babe’s giving hand jobs to guards in lockdown. Not to be outdone, Lynda Stoner steams up the shower room with her enormous rack before succumbing to a grisly, though flesh-revealing, fate.