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American Tourist | Mexico
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Best WideRelease Film | 2009
Best Horror Movie of the Year | 2008
Best Horror Poster | 2008
Best Horror Movie | 2008
Budget 8,000,000 USD
Box Office Collection 22,818,256 USD
Though the film takes place in Mexico during the summer, it was shot primarily in Australia during the winter. Heavy coats were provided for the actors in between takes, and water and olive oil had to be sprayed onto their bodies to simulate sweat.
In the novel, there are no "ruins" to speak of, just a hill overgrown with the vines and the shaft cut into it. Director Carter Smith suggested changing it to an ancient Mayan temple, an idea with which writer Scott B. Smith agreed.
Pumpkin vines inspired the look of the carnivorous vines in the film.
The film rights were purchased before the novel was published.
Director Carter Smith had just purchased a copy of the Scott B. Smith novel and started reading it when he got the phone call offering him the film adaptation.
"Amy: We're being quarantined here. We are being kept here to die! Jeff: This doesn't happen! Four Americans on a vacation don't just disappear!"
"[after seeing the vines nearly choke Mathias to death - which was planned by the vines to happen regardless of the group's help] Eric: [sarcastic / deadpan] Well, thank God we cut his legs off."
