Donkey Punch

A wake-up call for the binge-drinking generation?

Donkey Punch (99 mins, 18)
Directed by Olly Blackburn; starring Robert Boulter, Sian Breckin, Julian Morris, Jaime Winstone

  1. Donkey Punch
  2. Production year: 2008
  3. Country: UK
  4. Cert (UK): 18
  5. Runtime: 99 mins
  6. Directors: Olly Blackburn
  7. Cast: Jaime Winstone, Jay Taylor, Julian Morris, Nichola Burley, Robert Boulter, Sian Breckin, Tom Burke
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In Olly Blackburn's feature debut, the calculatedly amoral thriller Donkey Punch, three up-for-it working-class girls from Leeds holidaying in Majorca are picked up by four middle-class Home Counties boys and taken out to sea on a luxury yacht they've been crewing for three months. Booze, drugs and sex lead plausibly to a killing using the eponymous donkey punch (a dangerous way of heightening an orgasm) and fear, recrimination and general panic ensue in the dark, isolated, claustrophobic setting.

The characters are weak and, in the case of the men, extremely dislikable, but despite an occasional lack of clarity Blackburn does a commendable job. Is it supposed to be a wake-up call for the binge-drinking generation? Perhaps. You certainly won't snooze through it.

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