Donkey Punch

Donkey Punch (2007)

  • 49% of critics liked it
    (51 reviews)

  • 26% of users liked it
    (12,398 ratings)

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… More

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R,
Directed By
Written By
Olly Blackburn, David Bloom
Genres
Mystery & Suspense
In Theaters
Jan 22, 2008 Wide
Magnolia Pictures

Critic Reviews

  • Ted Fry, Seattle Times

    Packs a magnetic jolt of fearsome intensity.

  • Philip Kennicott, Washington Post

    Donkey 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.

  • Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer

    It's Dead Calm meets Very Bad Things, with English accents.

  • Rex Reed, New York Observer

    Unfortunately, Donkey Punch delivers a donkey punch of its own.

  • Wesley Morris, Boston Globe

    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.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Jim H


    Four blokes meet three birds, and when one delivers the titular sexual maneuver, they must decide how to handle the resulting murder. After the first half hour, the film descends into all the horror movie cliches that <i>Cabin in the Woods</i> satirized. But it's… More

  • Ken S


    Not bad, but not great. Has couple of good "holy crap did that just happen?!" moments, but a few of those does not a good movie make.

  • Cynthia S


    I actually thought that this was pretty good. At first I thought that it was just another sex movie, but that all changed about 35 min into it. I kept wondering what the heck Donkey Punch was. Well now I know. Nothing good can ever come from that move, obviously. I thought that this… More

  • Conner R


    The first half is actually really good and pretty original, but the second half completely ruins the movie and shows how little thought was put into constructing a suspense thriller. The acting was okay at times, but when things got dramatic and serious the performances fell apart. I… More

  • Anthony L


    Donkey Punch abides by all the 'rules' but suffers all the same cliques. Its riskiness is really not that shocking and its idea is really not that original. It steals from a couple of classics (Dead Calm being the main one) but it mainly rips off other bad horror films. This… More

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