A trio of lovely young ladies is out on a girls’ weekend when they run into a quartet of equally photogenic young men who just happen to have access to a luxury yacht, plenty of alcohol and enough pharmaceutical inhibition relaxers to guarantee everyone is naked and having serious fun before the ship is out of sight of land. In other words, it’s a perfect recipe for bloody disaster on the high seas. While horror movies have made a lot of money telling similar young adult excess fables over the years, what separates Donley Punch from the rest of the pack is director Oliver Blackburn’s skill at keeping the tension levels nail-bitingly high whether anything is actually happening up on the screen or not. He’s so good at it that when something actually does happen – usually with a lot of blood splattering across the screen – it’s almost a relief.
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