Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

Watched this film today and was first surprised to find it was a british horror/thriller. Which is great considering it makes a change from these crappy american films with annoying accents screaming "oh my god!" every 5 minutes while running around helplessly! It really does!The film is about 3 young british women on holiday in spain who meet 4 young british men, one of whom says has a yacht & so they all head to the yacht & anchor out at sea. Though when a rough seuxal technique known as the "Donkey Punch" gets mention, along with hard drugs & sex, things go horribly wrkng! 1 of the men tries the move on 1 of the girls only for it to backfire as he ends up killing her! And so the men try to hatch a plan to get away with the manslaughter.Now the film wasn't at all "horror" like but more thriller orientated. But I guess with the deaths it just about earns that horror badge in its own right. I found the film to be pretty solid. But found the film and its chracters to be unlikeable. Like the fact there was nobody to root for, and that it got to a stage where they were as both as bad as eachother with the females mostly being more murderous than the males.Then the ending which I think ruined the film completely! Not only was it a cliched female soul survivor but the fact that final girl was no different & pretty devious! Hated that! But further on frlm the ending was that the yacht had a truckload of evidence onboard, yet in any other film with on/off logic of DNA evidence, that final girl who thought she got away with it, would be in the deep for murder with intent, while at the beginning, it started off as manslaughter. Pathetic!Overall a dissapointing thriller/horror! 3/10

Seabound thrills ahoy in this contemporary British thriller, made with a youthful cast and shot in just 24 days in exotic locales. In essence, it's a straightforward psychological thriller that takes much of the ideas in its plot from the likes of DEAD CALM and VERY BAD THINGS, although it doesn't rival those two movies in terms of the amount of thrills on offer. There's a kind of lunkheaded, teenage anything-goes attitude in this movie, as revealed by the cast members who will literally do anything for the next thrill. It's all rather unpleasant, over the top and jaded, as none of the thrill-seekers are remotely likable or interesting so you end up sitting around and waiting for the next person to bite it.Things begin with a slow build up, which is hard to watch. That's because the realistic script means the protagonists are typically vain, self centred and unappealing. Then we move onto a sex scene that might better be called an 'orgy', which pushes the boat in terms of explicitness before ending with the titular act, which is not quite as shocking as you'd think. Tempers and attitudes then spiral out of control as each character reveals his or her weakness: some become paranoid, some go crazy, some are consumed by guilt and others turn literally homicidal. A taut dining sequence ensues with an expertly violent climax, there's an excellent interlude where a flare gun is put to fine use, plus a gratuitous scene of torture which is fairly compelling as it explores the lengths an ordinary person will go to when they're desperate. The climax becomes a little over the top (the outboard motor scene recalled The Texas Chain Saw Massacre for me) and then ends abruptly, but is not without merit.Director Oliver Blackburn – this is his first proper work – handles the thrills and suspense with efficiency if not courage, but he fails to bring any real style to the proceedings, giving this film the look of an average HOLLYOAKS episode. The youthful cast give it their all, and despite their relative inexperience (other than Ray Winstone's daughter Jaime, most have had just bit parts in various British TV series) they do a pretty good job. This is a film that breaks no new ground – and indeed isn't really worth more than a single watch – but it delivers the goods ably enough.

A group of young British men and woman on holiday in Spain go yachting, but things get ugly after one of them turns up dead. This is an amateurish, low-budget thriller that veers from soft-core porn to repellent violence, but is mostly lame, particularly the premise that leads to the first death. It is poorly acted by a group of unknown actors, most making their film debuts. Blackburn makes his feature film debut as director and co-writer but he's in over his head. For non-British viewers, the soundtrack is also a problem if subtitles are not available, as the actors mumble their lines in heavy English accents.

Olly Blackburn's classy but nasty thriller 'Donkey Punch' takes a number of standard tricks of the genre: the isolated location, the failing communications equipment, a steadily rising body count; and adds one of its own, namely the lethal fall out from the use of the obscure sexual technique of its title. The opening portions are almost unwatchable, as one waits to see who is going to fall victim to this manoeuvre, against a discomforting backdrop of youthful hedonism. Yet the movie only strengthens as it goes on, the director underlays the mounting gore, uses music impeccably, and there are honest, gutsy performances from the cast. Fundamentally, this becomes a movie about what ordinary people will do to survive in extreme conditions; not pretty, but I found the basic psychology believable. Overall, much better than expected.