![]() ![]() Amy dies on the operating table, after all her organs were removed. Kiko flees from the house.Ī sedated Amy awakens tied to a makeshift operating room where Zamora begins to remove her organs, while he explains to Finn, who is also tied up, that organ theft for transplant from Brazilians by rich gringos is part of a pattern of exploitation of Brazilian "resources", and that it is time to "give back." Victims' usable organs are being harvested and sent to the People’s Hospital in Rio de Janeiro and used for the benefit of the poor. A woman who arrives advises them to flee but when the group try and fight them, they are beaten into submission. They are awakened in the middle of the night by a helicopter bringing Zamora, a physician, and several associates and doctors, surrounded by armed henchmen. They manage to treat Kiko's wound and reluctantly decide to spend the night. At the house, they find food, clothes, and a number of prescription drugs, as well as a drawer filled with other people’s passports. Looking for help in a nearby village, Kiko, a young local who speaks some English, volunteers to take them to his uncle's isolated house in the forest where they can wait for a ride.Įn route to the house, Kiko shows the group a cave beneath a waterfall, but while diving into the water, he sustains a serious head injury. The next morning, they awaken on the deserted beach, robbed of their luggage, money and travel documents. After spending the day on the beach, they are served drugged drinks and pass out. The group find a cabana bar where several other tourists are partying. After a bus crash leaves all the passengers stranded, they are joined by two British men, Finn and Liam, and an Australian woman, Pru ( Melissa George), who is fluent in Portuguese. Three young American tourists, Alex ( Josh Duhamel), his sister Bea ( Olivia Wilde), and her friend Amy ( Beau Garrett) are backpacking 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. It was the first American film to be exclusively shot in Brazil. Its plot focuses on a group of international backpackers in Brazil who find themselves in the clutches of an underground organ harvesting ring. Paradise Lost is released in UK cinemas on Friday 1st June 2007.Turistas ( / t u r iː s t ɔː s/ 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. ![]() Everyone else might want to consider taking a different trip. Still, fans of hardgore horror should find their bloodthirsty appetites sated. Yes, the Third World revenge on First World imperialism is about as subtle as a breeze block sandwich, and yes, the third act payoff withers like offal in the tropical heat. ER meets the charnel house, as bare breasts and open chest cavities share screen (or rather scream) time, head wounds meet staple guns and organs are involuntarily donated. "Did you know, in America there is a seven year wait for a healthy kidney?" asks dodgy doc Zamora (Miguel Lunardi) as he goes about relieving a beach babe of hers. An opening half hour sets up the under-developed, under-dressed gaggle of characters, then unleashes mayhem when the scheming Brazilian locals rob the kids of everything they own. It's a short, nasty and xenophobic shocker that plugs right into its target audience's desire to see bikini babes eviscerated in graphic, hospital operating theatre detail. If the sex-crazed, hard-partying folk at Club 18-30 made horror movies, Paradise Lost might be the result. But, after the locals drug their drinks, these good-looking but borderline-repulsive gringos are destined to lose more than just their travellers cheques. When six tourists led by Alex (Josh Duhamel) find themselves stranded on a beach in the middle of nowhere, they think they've found a paradise of sun, sand and sex. Fun in the sun turns bloody nasty in Paradise Lost, a backpackers in peril B-movie that should do for Brazil's tourist industry what Hostel did for Slovakia. ![]()
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