Josh Duhamel

Melissa George

Olivia Wilde

Desmond Askew

Beau Garrett

Max Brown

Agles Steib

Miguel Lunardi

Jorge Só

Cristiani Aparecida

Lucy Ramos

Andrea Watrouse

Diego Santiago

Marcão

Miguelito Acosta

Vanessa Bueno

John Stockwell

Jeff McEvoy

Fernanda Chasim

Marc Butan

Sandro Valerio

Scott Steindorff

Bo Zenga

Lisa Beach

Sarah Katzman

Bia Salgado

Vantoen Pereira Júnior

Peter Zuccarini

Ruy Brito

Aline Motta

Alice Souza

Mauricio Couto Bevilaqua

Marlise Storchi

Oswaldo Eduardo Lioi

Enrique Chediak

Lula Araújo

Martín Macías Trujillo

Kate Plantin

Zeca Guimarães

Caique Martins Ferreira

Michael Arlen Ross

Paul Haslinger

Kent Kubena

Nick Foley

Joshua Adeniji

Daniel Tripoli

Ragui Hanna

Valeri Pfahning

Anthony Ocampo

Marie Victoria Denoga

Susan Pusateri

Jonathan Miller

Jeremy Balko

Brian Williams

Michael Cook

David Geoghegan

Claudia Reis

Ted Swanscott

Jerry Gilbert

Bia Caldas

Scott Hinkley

Andrew Morgado

Joana Batista

Dhyana Carlton-Tims

Sergio Farjalla Jr.

Yan Saldanha

Jorge Saldanha

Randy Babajtis

Richard Kitting

Amy Ostrower

Shawn London

James W. Riley

Steve Bobertz

David Falzone

Mark Dornfeld

Pamela Jaeckle

Mariana Vianna

Shaun Cunningham

David Hughes

Altyr Pereira

Chad J. Hughes

Mark Messick

Ozzie Carmona

Sid Jayakar

L. Elizabeth Powers

Nilo Vital

Amy Smolev

Christopher D. Martin

Bruno Roussel

Amani Williams

Maxine Gervais

John Robotham

R.J. Harbour

Giancarlo J. Sini

Jon Dudkowski

Tom Cross

Shaina Holmes

Louis Bravo

David F. Van Slyke

Cody King

Jonathan Wales

Martha Soehendra

Brent Findley

Luciano Raposo

Shelley Roden

Eric Grenaudier

José George

Eduardo Segovia

Ronald Warner

Mark Cuban

Horror

Thriller

Turistas

2929 Productions

Fox Atomic

Stone Village Pictures

BoZ Productions

United States of America

Brazil Nuts!

After their bus crashes while touring in Brazil, a group of young adults find themselves in a world of misery...

Not ever likely to be watched by members of the Brazilian Tourist Board, Turistas (AKA: Paradise Lost) is a whole mixed bag of a movie. Narratively it has been done before, a bunch of pretty types end up coming face to face with criminals and psychopaths in a land they don't know and barely understand.

The build up to the horror elements is slow, and for some horror fans it takes too long. Yet conversely it's good that the makers have afforded time for the characterisations to build, allowing for some humour, some drama and an insight into a multi national group dynamic. You may not much care what happens to them, but at least you know them!

Actually filmed on location in Brazil, there's a lot of mother nature's natural beauty (and her tough terrain at times) on show, all neatly photographed by Enrique Chediak (28 Weeks Later/127 Hours). However, the trump card is the underwater sequences, which are superbly put together, including a thrilling extended chase sequence that lifts the film out of horror/thriller averageville.

There's messages in the mix that valiantly try to make a point, but they get lost as things go a bit cuckoo. Yet there's enough good craft on show, and a horror sequence guaranteed to make you squirm, to make this worth a viewing. It is a good bit better than what some of the hate poured on it suggests, though the caveat is that horror fans should know it only gets into horror territory late in the day. 6/10

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