Donkey Punch Review
Watching this movie it’s difficult to shake the sense that Director Oliver Blackburn is using this as a prom reel for himself. The thing is, for all the movie’s attention grabbing sex and drug use and title, it’s actually a fairly understated affair visually.
It’s shot like a Calvin Klein ad by Blackburn and cinematographer Nanu Segal, and you kinda get the feeling you’re watching a really trippy music video, or an episode of Real World where the castmates stupidity finally catches up to them.
The leads are three girls who meet some random dudes, find it charming when those random dudes steal champagne, and then follow those random dudes to their boat.
There they take ectasy and what smoke what I think was crack and shortly thereafter engage in group sex with the boys, which is also videotaped.
So the point is when bad shit starts to go down you don’t really feel like, this could happen to anybody. Maybe it could happen to anybody, but I’m pretty sure it’s more likely to happen to chicks who do drugs and have sex with strangers.
Therefore, you could care less about them, or the jerks who are wooing them by getting them drunk and drugged out.
The catalyst is when one of the guys performs the titular sex act and kills a girl by accident. Things rapidly get worse from there and the movie becames a series of murders.
Dead Calm took a similar scenario and made an awesome movie about it. It didn’t have gratuitous sex or drug use, and while ostensibly had less risque content went to darker places.
Donkey Punch is practically a soft core porno mixed with a mediocre murder thriller.
That being said, the lighting rocked
Seriously, this movie looked gorgeous. Actually too gorgeous to be scary, but gorgeous nonetheless.
It’s probably the best movie ever made called Donkey Punch
So they’ve got that going for them.
Did I mention it was classy?
Yeah it’s shot in a really elegant classy way. This makes you feel totally distant to the danger and renders it artificial but sure looks pretty.
-Dan Benamor