Turistas

Turistas
U.S. theatrical release poster
Directed byJohn Stockwell
Written byMichael Arlen Ross
Produced by
Starring
Cinematography
Edited byJeff McEvoy
Music byPaul Haslinger
Production
companies
Distributed byFox Atomic
Release date
  • December 1, 2006 (2006-12-01)
Running time
93 minutes[2]
CountryUnited States
Languages
  • English
  • Portuguese
Budget$10 million
Box office$14.7 million[3]

Turistas (/turstɔːs/; English: Tourists, released in the United Kingdom and Ireland as Paradise Lost) is a 2006 American horror film produced and directed by John Stockwell and starring Josh Duhamel, Melissa George, Olivia Wilde, Desmond Askew, Max Brown, and Beau Garrett. Its plot focuses on a group of international backpackers in Brazil who find themselves in the clutches of an underground organ harvesting ring.

It was the first American film to be exclusively shot in Brazil. It was also the first film distributed by Fox Atomic, a subsidiary of 20th Century Fox, who released it theatrically in the United States on December 1, 2006.

  1. ^ a b "Turistas (2006)". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. Retrieved February 19, 2021.
  2. ^ "Paradise Lost (18)". British Board of Film Classification. February 22, 2007. Retrieved September 3, 2016.
  3. ^ Box Office Mojo. Retrieved April 18, 2021.