Turistas (Unrated Edition)
by John Stockwell
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Actor: Desmond Askew, Josh Duhamel, Melissa George, Miguel Lunardi, Olivia WildeDirector: John Stockwell
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
Cinematographer: Enrique Chediak
Composer: Paul Haslinger
Editor: Jeff McEvoy
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; Portuguese (Original Language); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 96 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-03-27
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Movie Reviews of Turistas (Unrated Edition)
Movie Review: I Left My Heart In San Francisco And My Kidneys In Brazil
Summary: 4 Stars
"Turistas" is a shocking, gory little gem. Don't watch it before you go on vacation to a South American country. You may change your plans.
The film begins with a heart pounding bus accident on the cliffs of Brazil, which leaves a group of American and European tourists stranded. After their brush with death, they all become friends and decide to party at a nearby bar on the beach. Their drinks are drugged and they awaken the next morning to discover all their possessions have been stolen. There are no police and the locals have conspired not to help them. One young man deceives them into following him to a remote house where a ghoulish nightmare ensues.
Rife with suspense and gore, this film has a high body count. Chase scenes abound, taking place in rain forests and flooded caverns. The later scenes were very claustrophobic; I felt myself suffocating. The acting from the young leads was very good and the photography was excellent. It was hard to imagine that such gruesome horror could take place in the tropical beauty of this primitive paradise. But the environment, as well as its people, are extremely deceptive.
"Turistas" is highly recommended for those who prefer their horror taking place in the beautiful outdoors. It should be watched as a double feature with "The Ruins," which I have also reviewed. Both movies involve innocent tourists fighting for their lives.
Summary of Turistas (Unrated Edition)
Rising star Josh Duhamel (TV's Las Vegas) leads a group of young backpackers who find themselves stranded on a remote Brazilian beach; an exotic paradise, with warm sunshine, cool ocean breezes, and plenty of hot bodies. But, after a night of partying, the wayward turistas are drugged and robbed, and their dream vacation becomes a gruesome nightmare. Trapped and desperate, the vulnerable travelers are lured deep into the menacing jungle and beyond, where a dark and twisted fate too terrifying to imagine awaits.If not for Hostel, we'd never have been treated to the gory, horrific delights so lovingly captured with sadistic detail in Turistas. Together, these movies could be spawning a radical new Hollywood-pedigreed sub-genre of extreme horror. Like Hostel, Turistas concerns a group of American hardbodied kids on an exotic foreign vacation--this time in Brazil. After a suspense-filled opening sequence of a speeding bus careening off a dangerous mountain (it's also tinged with just the right kind of humor), the kids wander into the seeming paradise of a secluded beachfront resort where they think nothing of locals who lure them one by one to their gruesome and shocking deaths. Hey, they're here to party! These excruciatingly graphic scenes unfold in the lair of a madman doctor named Zamora, who harvests organs of the still-living as a way of exacting revenge on American turistas to "give back" to the locals they exploit with their capitalist dollars. One such scene has the donor undergoing surgery without the help of anesthesia wherein the lovely young "patient" has the chance to see her still thriving innards pulsing warmly on her well-formed chest to the tune of her own screams. This stuff is not for the faint of heart (or liver, or kidney, or lungs, for that matter). But there is a fair amount of nicely staged tension, especially a "foot" chase scene in a water-filled cave that will give claustrophobics a whole new way to experience nightmares. The two most familiar faces are Melissa George and Josh Duhamel, from TV's Alias and Vegas respectively. Fans of this new world of extreme gross-out horror should be thankful that TV has plenty of cute young bodies waiting for their big screen break, no matter how many organs they have to donate to get there. --Ted Fry
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