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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Twentieth Century Fox
EAN: 0024543428787
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 27, 2007
Running Time: 96 minutes
Sales Rank: 4410
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: December 01, 2006
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Description:
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.
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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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Stay far,far away from this garbage
This movie is so haorrible its not even funny.its very slow movie,the acting is bad,all of the good action takes place at the end and before you know it its all over before you got a chance to even enjoy it.if you are looking for this type of film watch any of the saw movies or the two hostel movie...all of which are better then this.trust me dont even rent this.i got it for $5.99 and felt cheated.a fair warning to all those considering this....DONT DO IT to yourself.
Rating:  - Gory, Gross and Good?
A lot of negative reviews here might make you overlook this movie. It is in the Hostel/Saw genre of gross out, torture movies, but is actually fairly entertaining. The movie plays on the abduction fears many tourists have about latin America and steps it up a notch by adding in black market organ thieves. Sexy actors and actresses and a beautiful natural landscape provide nice eye-candy which coupled with an interesting story line makes for a good night of entertainment. Sure there is the obligatory gory scenes, but that is all part of this popular genre. The bottom line is if you like Saw you will probably like this movie. If you don't like the gross-out genre then this movie probably isn't for you.
Rating: - In the 'vein' of "Hostel"...
This film touches a visceral nerve. Set against the beautiful scenery of Brazil, it follows the travels of American tourists unaware they are being lured to their deaths. If you liked Hostel (Unrated Widescreen Edition), you will enjoy this movie. The thematic elements are the same, but they are two very different films. I mostly stayed away from this one because it got some bad press, but upon viewing it, felt that it was well crafted and worth a gander, especially if you are looking for yet another layer of horror topography. And the nubile bodies bouncing around the screen don't hurt either. Check this out if you want a diversion from the abundant teen slasher or zombie fodder.
Rating:  - You Can't Beat the Scenery, For a While
I will attempt to make this short, while hopefully covering some important points which will help you to consider this film for its merits as well as its flaws. Firstly. An initial caveat to all you raconteurs with high expectations. That is, do not--I say do not go in to see this movie thinking you are going to get a cinematic product on the level of an Alfred Hitchcock or Stanley Kubrick film. Yeah, don't think that. But I do not think that I am stretching things in saying that you will enjoy a fine time of it for about an hour. I say an hour because you will have to switch off for a good five minutes or so after that because the dissection scene is simply too grotesque and sadistic to endure, at least by my standards. Then you can turn back--but getting back on point, we are not giving this film its proper due. There are some out there who will say the movie did not deliver the goods, when in one sense, it is absolutely undeniable, an immutable fact, that the movie delivers "the goods" in force. The cinematographer, obviously a man, is here to help--he brings the camera to bear on one of the most ludicrously sensual and sexy casts in recent memory, this side of "Baywatch". That noteworthy program assembled a Hall of Fame gallery of hotness to which we still pay homage, but the assembled lineup of Beau Garrett, Melissa George, Olivia Wilde, and the two Brazilian chicks at the bar, all in their swimwear, can honestly can suit up and play in the same game with, while obviously not surpassing, the ... Read More
Rating: - Just Awful
Horrible acting, worse plot...the only thing it has going for it is some good looking ladies, but even they can't make the film worth watching. Save 2 hours of your life and avoid this movie.
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