Turistas (Paradise Lost)

Turistas (Paradise Lost) (2006)

  • 17% of critics liked it
    (102 reviews)

  • 35% of users liked it
    (83,031 ratings)

John Stockwell's thriller Turistas begins when vacationers end up stranded in a little Brazilian village after a bus accident wipes out their transportation. Although many in the group are experienced when it comes to unusual travel destinations, none of them are able to get a handle on this… More

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Genres
Drama, Horror, Mystery & Suspense
In Theaters
Dec 1, 2006 Wide
On DVD
Mar 27, 2007
Fox Atomic

Critic Reviews

  • Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper

    This is just a predictable slice of slasher porn set in an exotic locale.

  • Bill Stamets, Chicago Sun-Times

    [Director] Stockwell delivers too little of the dread and titillation this genre prescribes.

  • Peter Howell, Toronto Star

    Turistas is a passport to a different kind of vacation hell.

  • Mark Rahner, Seattle Times

    While comparisons to Hostel are inevitable Turistas rarely achieves its level of sustained menace and discomfort.

  • Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle

    It's fitting that, in a season in which Hollywood offers up its prestige pictures -- the ones it hopes will garner critics' prizes and Academy Awards -- Turistas should come along to offer a bit of contrast.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Japes .


    This is a standard horror movie I guess. It's a play by play of every cliche in the horror genre. It doesn't even make sense really. I mean I just LOVE how in America the movies view other countries (like Brazil) as creepy towns filled with people who just want to kill you… More

  • Jeff "


    Turistas is an awful horror film that uses old cliches to try to create something new and refreshing. This film is poorly written with a script that doesn't work. The result is a film that tries too hard at being a scary horror film, however it's far from scary. The film… More

  • Anthony L


    Turistas or Paradise Lost, is a perfect example of what is wrong with modern American horror films. It feeds on irrational fear. I know America is a vast country, but only under 13% of Americans have a passport - these kinds of films only heighten this irrationality but also suggest a… More

  • familiar s


    Nothing original, but that's not the main problem. Besides having a rotten plot, it is uninteresting too.

  • Lee ?


    Thought this was an OK movie, nothing brilliant though. Takes a while before the excitement really starts to get going with the last 40 minutes providing the best moments of the film with some nasty moments of violence and suspense. Early on we're treated to lots of naked and… More

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