The recent DVD and Blu-ray from Severin Films is the uncut version.
The Michael Felsher-penned liner notes from the Anchor Bay DVD claim there is no uncut version anymore.
When the film was completed and finished in 1981, it was submitted to the Australian ratings board [editor's note: The OFLC] for certification. As you would expect [editor's note: I would? Why?] there were objections to several moments in the finished product, and a few trims had to be made to appease the board. Sadly these excised bits were never retained and have been lost to time. What has become known as the "uncut" version was released in Australia as TURKEY SHOOT and was subsequently sent to video there on the Roadshow Video label
As is typical of Michael Felsher's liner notes, he explains little and doesn't say what these lost-to-time trims are, and I have never read one single interview from Brian Trenchard-Smith in which he mentions them. Also, Michael Felsher is a complete idiot, so there is always the possibility he doesn't know what he's talking about at all. In any event, let's just say Severin released the 1982 94 minute Australian theatrical version, as previously released by Anchor Bay, and not the 1983 80 minute New World Pictures theatrical version (because they were too cheap to ship out a 5th reel) and most certainly not the 1984 re-rated 79 minute New World Pictures/Embassy/Nelson home video and television version (because Richard Heffner went to go see the film playing in theatres in October of '83 and blew a gasket over the gore in it he claims the MPAA never approved of for an "R" rating).
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