If you're planning a trip to Brazil, you might think twice about watching Turistas. The horror/thriller, directed by John Stockwell and starring Josh Duhamel, Beau Garrett and Olivia Wilde, takes place in that country and let's just say the film doesn't show the locals at their best.

Brazil's state tourism body has applauded US film critics for trashing a horror movie in which tourists get slaughtered in the country and said it was taking measures to offset any damage to its image abroad.Some Brazilian media went into a frenzy over Turistas, quoting disgusted Brazilian viewers who went to see it in the United States where it hit the screens last Friday.

In the movie directed by John Stockwell, young American backpackers are attacked and mugged by locals, lured by bikini-clad beauties only to get drugged by spiked "caipirinha" cocktails. They then have their internal organs removed by a crazy surgeon who runs a human organ trafficking ring.