Donkey Punch details
| Formats: | 18 DVD, Blu-ray, LOVEFiLM Instant |
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| Starring: | Robert Boulter, Sian Breckin, Tom Burke, Nichola Burley, Julian Morris, Jay Taylor, Jaime Winstone, Jamie Winstone, Tim Burke |
| Director: | Oliver Blackburn |
| Genres: | Horror, Thriller |
| Studio: | ELEVATION |
| Collection: | Behaving Badly, Directorial Debuts, Enter at your own peril, HD Films, HD Horror, HD Horror Movies, LOVEFiLM Exclusives, Tenuous Animals |
| Title | Runtime | Certificate | |
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Donkey Punch |
1hr 35 mins | 18 |
LOVEFiLM Instant Information
| Run time: | 1 hour 35 minutes |
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| Rental release: | To be confirmed |
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By Tom Charity from LOVEFiLMA night of partying goes wrong for a group of teens in this slasher film...
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Donkey Pish
By Al80 (59 reviews) from Brighton, England , 09 Jul 2008[Highly rated reviewer]
I can't remember the last time that a movie squandered as much goodwill in such a short space of time as this one does. The first half is genuinely terrific, as six lairy, sexed-up twenty-somethings flirt, take drugs and confabulate on a yacht anchored off the coast of an unnamed Spanish island. Its like Hollyoaks as directed by Larry Clark, and it is totally gripping.
But as soon as the titular incident occurs (and the titular incident really does occur; just in case anyone else suspected that the title was merely a jocular come-on) the plot suddenly helter skelters straight into a brick wall; turning into the kind of dated, tiresome trash that isn't only shockingly predictable, but also entirely unaware of its own predictability. The film's twists are broadly apparent a full ten minutes before they occur onscreen, which makes for an experience that isn't only boring, but also deeply and repeatedly annoying.
This is one of those thrillers in which every cast member gets a turn playing the volatile psychopath, purely because the script can't get around the fact that the previous character to go loopy has just been safely locked in a cupboard.
It never once stops being faultlessly directed - debutante Oliver Blackburn coaxes some really outstanding performances from his young cast, and there are a couple of devilish moments of genuine suspense and black comedy - but these jiffys are like a tiny number of slowly deflating rubber dinghies sinking into a gigantic ocean of generic pish.
People merely looking for explicit sex will be very well served, but the violence and gore is surprisingly tame for something that's being marketed as a plasma-stained killfest.
A very brief, but nevertheless apt and effective homage to Phillip Noyce's Dead Calm aside (a film so infinitely superior that I feel guilty for even having mentioned it here) this is just a shoddy, witless bore of a film.
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(206)great film
By a customer , 11 Apr 2013damn good brittish horror. on the edge of seat not knowing who gets it next. great acting from all. one to watch- Was this review helpful to you?
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worst film ever
By a customer , 13 Mar 2013the worst film I have ever seen. Truly awful, the makers ought to be ashamed of themselves. how this got made I have no idea..- Was this review helpful to you?
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Rubbish movie
By a customer , 21 Feb 2013Awful film, boring, bad acting! Total waste of time. Terrible storyline with no twists. ill save you the time of watching it....they all die except the main girl, wish someone told me that before i wasted 1hr 30mins.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Better than we thought
By Catinabox (40 reviews) , 18 Feb 2013We enjoyed the action in this, and its confined/isolated setting. The main problem was that the obvious 'way out' at any given time was for the remaining characters simply to appear to comply until they could contact the authorities. But where's the film in that?! Worth a watch on a Sunday evening if you like a bit of horror.- Was this review helpful to you?
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And The Point Is????
By J2DAG (7 reviews) , 29 Jan 2013Umm, I said all lottery funded british films I had seen were good.... until this one... the story line, a child could write better, it was boring as anything and the characters suck azz! the actors are not bad, just the characters... not at all realistic, they all do stupid things which ends up with stupid results... they had a chance to make something good out of this film instead of that, made something only suitable for a school play... Disappointing!!!!- Was this review helpful to you?
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