Donkey Punch (2007)
Average Rating: 5.5/10
Reviews Counted: 51
Fresh: 25 | Rotten: 26
Donkey Punch begins as a promising thriller, but loses credibility while adhering too closely to genre conventions.
Average Rating: 4.5/10
Critic Reviews: 15
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 10
Donkey Punch begins as a promising thriller, but loses credibility while adhering too closely to genre conventions.
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A luxurious yacht floating in the Mediterranean serves as the unlikely setting for this tightly wound horror-thriller concerning three vacationing ladies whose carefree vacation morphs into a picturesque nightmare over the grueling course of one terrifying night at sea. It began as a fun night out on the town, but after meeting three charming locals at a nearby club, the gorgeous vacationers made the fateful mistake of joining the men for a hedonistic party at sea. Unwisely climbing aboard the
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Robert Boulter
Sean -
Sian Breckin
Lisa -
Tom Burke
Bluey -
Nichola Burley
Tammi -
Julian Morris
Josh -
Jay Taylor
Marcus -
Jaime Winstone
Kim
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Packs a magnetic jolt of fearsome intensity.
Top CriticDonkey Punch is almost humorless, and there's no wink and nudge behind the mayhem to absolve us of taking its ugly, class-obsessed subtext seriously.
It's Dead Calm meets Very Bad Things, with English accents.
Unfortunately, Donkey Punch delivers a donkey punch of its own.
Anyone looking for a stoned and bikinied update of L'Avventura, Purple Noon, Dead Calm, or other boat-bound chillers will have to settle for The Real World: Death Yacht.
Watching, it's easy to feel a little stranded, too.
At least there's not a bag-head haunting the ship.
Blackburn takes one boat, one body, a rising tide of panic and a rising number of corpses and uses them all to craft the best bad news possible.
A nasty little thriller that might have worked had it tempered its propensity for outrageous brutality.
A first class thriller from start to finish, Donkey Punch has the lot: raunchy holiday fun, gorgeous locations, a luxury yacht, drug-driven sex orgy and a mishap
Very Bad Things meets Knife in the Water in ... [this] thriller about not-so-bright young things trying to cover up a nasty accident.
...has been infused with an egregiously plodding sensibility that effectively renders its few positive attributes moot.
I look forward to Blackburn making a thriller with a script to match his style.
On the plus side, at least it wasn't called Dirty Sanchez.
Had director Blackburn included at least one interesting character that wasn't bird-brained and had he moved the mayhem much earlier within the plot, the film would have been at least refreshing to watch rather than mostly dull and derivative.
The ending is never much in doubt. Getting to it, however, involves a slightly better-than-usual assortment of cheap, harrowing thrills.
An exciting, high-tensioned, fast-paced tale of seven people faced with life-altering decisions when removed from civilization in the mold of "Lord of the Flies."
Violent, sex-filled thriller is rough, grisly stuff.
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After the first half hour, the film descends into all the horror movie cliches that Cabin in the Woods satirized. But it's sexy and occasionally delivers a suspenseful moment or two. I don't like its predictability, and I'm uncomfortable with the fact that many horror film producers think more about odd, creative ways to kill characters rather than developing them.
Overall, Donkey Punch is a horror film for all the good and ill that genre evinces.