Donkey Punch

Donkey Punch (2007)

  • 49% of critics liked it
    (51 reviews)

  • 26% of users liked it
    (12,223 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, 1 hr. 30 min.
Directed By
Oliver Blackburn
Written By
Olly Blackburn, David Bloom
Genres
Mystery & Suspense
In Theaters
Jan 22, 2008 Wide
On DVD
Apr 7, 2009
Magnolia Pictures

Critic Reviews

  • 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.

  • Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger

    Watching, it's easy to feel a little stranded, too.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • 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

  • Curtis L


    Well...It's a movie about a donkey punch gone wrong. But can a donkey punch go right? Pretty much a subject that had to be addressed, but at the same time, not enough to make a movie about. That's why they had to have a lot of people killing each other to make a good… More

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