Sandcooler Charles Band is a pretty woeful filmmaker, but at the same time I also sorta admire the guy. Well, maybe admiration is sort of a big word, but his brand of one-dimensional gimmick cinema is a pretty fun throwback to 70s exploitation movies. Band is basically H.G. Lewis with less blood and more inept puppetry. Actually watching one of his movies all the way through seems like a bridge too far though. "Evil Bong" might have an evil bong, but it has absolutely nothing else going for it. Most scenes go absolutely nowhere and do so at an excruciatingly slow pace, while you sit there awkwardly waiting for "so bad it's good"-moments. Eventually those moments do come when Tommy Chong finally shows up, but by then it's too little and too late. Besides, Chong seems to be completely improvising his lines anyway, no way the writer could come up with dialogues this funny. Apart from being boring, the movie also looks about as ugly as a movie can look. It looks like it was shot with a cell phone, I know it's low-budget but this is just ridiculous. Feel free to laugh your ass off at the box, but please leave this one on the shelf.

minfish88 I got this movie expecting it to be funny and trippy perfect for the stoned. with a title like evil bong...you'd think it would be good. unfortunately it certainly didn't deliver. It's slow, tacky jokes, the characters don't represent a real stoner. they're wrecked off one bong hit. you can tell the writers didn't know how real Pot heads act. =/ The plot is really dry, it's slow and worst of all.... it's not at all funny. Black people suit stoner comedies much better. The only good bits it when it cuts to montages of cannabis leaves with funky music. but yeah... don't waste your time on this film. if you want a good stoner film, go for Friday or don't be a menace.

James Bourke There was a time whenever I spotted Charles Band's name before a title, I instantly knew that what I would be watching would be nothing less than brilliant! However this is not the 1980's and those glory days of Empire Pictures have long since diminished. Such classics as 'Zone Troopers' & 'Dolls' have now entered into my hall of fame when it comes to my all time favourite Charles Band produced pictures.As we now know, Charles Band's Empire may have crumbled and for over two decades now the vast majority of his output has been hiding behind a Full Moon shadow, only a handful of titles beyond the endless stream of sequels have truly stood out, these being 'Doctor Mordrid' & 'Lurking Fear'.Whatever the downturn in Charles Band's fortunes can be theorised in many ways, we've all read the articles and heard the whispers of his Fagan like approach to business.Now I could claim to be the Charles Band's biggest fan, granted I am a huge admirer of the man and his movies, be they from his Empire heyday or even to the early days of Full moon.Of course my fandom of Mr Band could probably be usurped by someone else out there in fanland, but ever since my first brush with Empire Pictures and a certain movie called 'Ghoulies' I was instantly hooked.However it saddens me to say, that the output being distributed on DVD over the last couple of years has been less than startling. Yes the titles of these movies have been as ever a major highlight, but the execution has been somewhat lacking.In case anyone wondered, I didn't intend on straying to far from the subject matter at hand, you always need that lead in, and so it that I find myself watching 'Evil Bong' a supposed comedy but still in keeping with Charles Band's fantasy and supernatural themes.To be honest the only original highlight about the movie was the editing courtesy of Danny Draven, and the way he cut between the scenes.As the movie approached the eighteen minute marker I suddenly realised that something was rather amiss, for a stoner comedy, I hadn't laughed. It was only when Jacob Witkin appeared as Arnell's grandfather 'Cyril' that I actually found my smile.His character was similar to that of Rip Torn's foul mouthed world weary Patches O'Houlihan from 'Dodgeball' when he finally exited, it was the same old show.I've often been curious as to who actually writes these scripts for Full Moon, I realise that Full Moon themselves have never accepted unsolicited material, but I would gladly submit an idea to Mr Band for free with no strings attached.There was a run of movies that Band made, sometimes utilising his alias Robert Talbot and the scripts had been penned by Benjamin Carr, now Carr's name sounded so much like an alter ego and sure enough, he was revealed as Neal Stevens.So now I find myself thinking just who is August White, as his name has adorned the last couple of Full Moon flicks. Now whether or not it's the ideas he has to work with or he suffers from a terminal case of writer's block, but the man can't write, he has no ear for dialogue.Bring back C. Courtney Joyner, now there's a screenwriter! Another embarrassing feature to 'Evil Bong' was the cameo's from the likes of Phil Fondacaro, Sonny Carl Davis and more importantly the saddest sight of them all the great Tim Thomerson donning the raincoat to essay the role of Jack Deth for a meaningless walk on.Like I said before, I used to watch a Charles Band production because I knew that I was going to be entertained.These days, they can only be viewed with a critical eye and the biggest sigh the world has ever heard!

mrsaffleck-2 I read a review of beerfest where evil bong was mentioned and thought that sounds like the sort of movie I like to torture my hon with and looked it up, yes it sounded perfect. A couple of days later we sat down to watch it and it was just like it sounded, but in saying that I have to also say I was more amused and entertained by it than the last half dozen movies I've seen. The basic premise is into a flat\dorm full of adolescent male stoner\muscle man\surfer types a nerd is introduced, hijinks ensue, the difference is an evil bong that tries to kill the foursome by sucking their souls after a session. The acting was so so and the special effects what ones there were weren't that impressive but it was really funny in places and tommy chongs cameo at the end was worth the wait. So if you have a couple hours to kill and have had a big toke and want to lay back and veg watch this.