Turistas

Xenophobia, sexploitation, sadism and gore...

A grubby, lethally dull bid to cash in on the new extreme horror...a group of hotties stumble into the lair of a madman. Carnage ensues. Here the hapless, clueless and braless are the English-speaking tourists of the film’s title who, having gone abroad to party hearty, end up being batted about by a wacky cat with very sharp claws and a seriously sick sense of social justice...

It's good, in a way, that "Turistas" contains an extended scene in which a girl gets her liver removed with just a local anesthetic. It reminds us that some experiences are even worse than watching this movie...

As the latest in a never-ending chain of thrillers about young people lost and dying in a hostile land, John Stockwell's "Turistas" at least offers the visual benefits of exotic settings and a cast of barely clad hardbodies...