Tagline: Go home.
“Turistas” is a tense, unsettling thriller centering around a diverse group of young adventure travelers. After a terrifying bus accident maroons them in a remote Brazilian beach town, they slowly discover that the white sand beaches and lush jungles are concealing a darker, unsettling secret…
Brazil. Beautiful women, pristine beaches, a friendly, open culture. Alex (Josh Duhamel) is accompanying his sister Bea (Olivia Wilde) and her best friend Amy (Beau Garrett) for their first time abroad – young Americans who have come to exotic Brazil for fun, adventure and the promise of foreign pleasures.
On a rickety bus rocketing up a twisting mountain road, they meet the beautiful Pru (Melissa George), who speaks the native language Portuguese, and Finn and Liam (Desmond Askew and Max Brown), in Brazil for the sole purpose of experiencing the beautiful Brazilian women they’ve heard so much about first hand.
After enduring a harrowing bus crash which strands them in what seems to be the middle of nowhere, Alex, Bea, and their band of traveling companions attempt to salvage their day by seeking out a cabana bar on a nearby beach rather than wait an endless amount of time for the next bus to come by. This seemingly small decision will change all their fates forever.
The discovery of the beautiful and secluded beach gives way to a day in the sun and surf, an afternoon at the bar, and a night of exotic liquors and hot dancing with the locals. It’s everything their vacation is supposed to be, until they wake up face down in the sand the following morning, drugged and robbed, their possessions gone, and the trace of very real danger in the air. There are places where Americans can travel without worry or fear, but this remote paradise is not one of them.
The farther the group travels into this mysterious and isolated Brazilian community, the further they are from the possibility of escape…and the closer they come to the dark secret that waits for them in the lush jungle and underground caverns of the Brazilian jungle, and they must fight a primal battle for their lives in the most terrifying of all human traps.
Turistas – released as Paradise Lost in the United Kingdom and Ireland[2] – is a 2006 American horror film produced and directed by John Stockwell, and starring Josh Duhamel, Melissa George, Olivia Wilde, Desmond Askew, Beau Garrett, Max Brown, Agles Steib, and Miguel Lunardi.
The plot focuses on a group of backpackers in Brazil who find themselves in the clutches of an underground organ harvesting ring. It was shot in the Chapada Diamantina, a region of Bahia state, and in the Litoral Norte, the easternmost coastal part of the São Paulo state.
Turistas was released on December 1, 2006 in the United States by Fox Atomic to generally negative reviews from critics. It was a box office bomb, grossing only $7 million in the United States.
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Turistas (2006)
Directed by: John Stockwell
Starring: Josh Duhamel, Melissa George, Olivia Wilde, Desmond Askew, Beau Garrett, Max Brown, Raul Guterres, Lucy Ramos, Miguel Lunardi, Andréa Leal, Miguelito Acosta
Screenplay by: Michael Ross
Production Design by: Marlise Storchi
Cinematography by: Enrique Chediak
Film Editing by: Jeff McEvoy
Costume Design by: Bia Salgado
Set Decoration by: Alice Souza
Music by: Paul Haslinger
MPAA Rating: R for strong graphic violence and disturbing content, sexuality, nudity, drug use and language.
Distributed by: Fox Atomic
Release Date: December 1, 2006
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