It's a film that's more likely to leave you confused and angry than frightened or inspired that something positive is happening in the horror genre.

Full Review | Mar 24, 2007

| Original Score: 1/6 | Feb 3, 2007

| Original Score: D | Jan 6, 2007

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

Full Review | Dec 4, 2006

Touted as the first American production to be shot entirely in Brazil, Turistas may well be the last, if the country cares at all about its image.

Full Review | Original Score: C- | Dec 2, 2006

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

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 1, 2006

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

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 1, 2006

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

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 1, 2006

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.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Dec 1, 2006

It gallops along with a suspenseful, dead-on sense of dread.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 1, 2006

Turistas has mastered the international language: stupidity.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Dec 1, 2006

Folks might find a bit of post-Iraq angst insinuated into the script, but any hint of social initiative in a movie this formulaic would be strictly coincidental.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 1, 2006

Consider it a modern spin on Deliverance, with no squealing like a pig -- just squeals of frightful excitement.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 1, 2006

Unpleasant but never really suspenseful, the new teen torture thriller Turistas causes only a dull, predictable pain.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Dec 1, 2006

The cinema of sadism smartens up in Turistas, a violent drama that has all the don't-go-there nastiness of B-movies like Hostel and Wolf Creek with a whole lot less of that guilty aftertaste.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 1, 2006

With Turistas, [director John Stockwell] is stuck with a silly plot and characters that make you sometimes wish the movie were a cheap slasher picture after all.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 1, 2006

This thing is paint by numbers all the way through, and as much fun as much of it is I'd be lying if I said the movie was worth all that much more than an economy priced mid-afternoon matinee.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 1, 2006

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 1, 2006

more sick than scary, more revolting than revealing, more twisted than tantalizing.

Full Review | Original Score: D | Nov 30, 2006

More icky than scary, with a rather obnoxious Ugly American as lead protagonist.

Full Review | Nov 30, 2006