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Turistas
Release Date: December 1, 2006
Studio: Fox Atomic
Director: John Stockwell
Screenwriter:
Michael Ross
Starring: Josh Duhamel, Melissa George, Olivia Wilde, Desmond Askew, Beau Garrett, Max Brown, Raul Guterres, Andréa Leal
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
MPAA Rating: R (strong graphic violence and disturbing content, sexuality, nudity, drug use and language)
Official Website: FoxAtomic.com | MySpace.com/Turistasmovie
 
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After a terrifying bus accident maroons a diverse group of young adventure travelers in a remote Brazilian beach town, they slowly discover that the white sand beaches and lush jungles are concealing a darker, unsettling secret. More here

 

 

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Jay Antani
Boxoffice Magazine

The anti-Americanism that swept the world in response to our response to 9/11 has been a crackling subject matter for filmmakers of all stripes. In the realm of thrillers, Eli Roth rode the anti-American theme in Hostel, with grisly and profitable results, with a sequel forthcoming. Now it seems director John Stockwell and writer Michael Ross want to cash in, too, with Turistas. More

David Edelstein
New York Magazine

Ugly Disemboweled Americans

The awful, offal-ridden Turistas—textbook torture-porn—would be too disgusting to discuss were it not for its efficiency at exploiting the fear that haunts our post-Iraq American dreams, and that can be discerned in works as various as the Oscar-bait ensemble drama Babel and the cringe comedy Borat: how our combination of arrogance and ignorance has left us hideously vulnerable in a world that hates our guts. More

Owen Gleiberman
Entertainment Weekly

Would you believe it if I said that the fearsome homicidal baddie in Turistas is the most humane and morally responsible person in the movie? Stranded by a bus accident during a humdinger of a party-hearty vacation in Brazil, a group of young revelers, played by pretty ciphers like Josh Duhamel and Melissa George in the usual wisps of clothing, find a bar on a beach, where they drink, dance, and wake up to discover they've been drugged and robbed. What they don't realize is that they're the prey of Zamora (Miguel Lunardi), a surgeon in a righteous huff over the parasitical underground market for vital organs in countries like his own. Once the fresh-meat tourists have been lured to his rain-forest lair, he decides on a cornrowed Aussie baby doll and, as she lies naked, removes her liver. As he explains during the procedure, he plans to ship the organ to a hospital in Rio, where, for once, it can be transplanted into the body of a needy, impoverished Brazilian. More

Bob Longino
Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Give Turistas, the edgy, unnerving, graphically violent South American vacation movie full of sex-hungry young adults and horror, credit for knowing full well not only what kind of entertainment it is, but for delivering the goods. More


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Official Website: FoxAtomic.com | MySpace.com/Turistasmovie
 



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