Evil Bong

Full Moon Home Video (2006)

Beyond Home Entertainment

R4 DVD

This happy little romp is reminiscent of the good old days of the drug culture, with all the stereotype characters from the drug-soaked about-to-be-a-dropout student to the earnest young hero who just wants a quiet place to study metaphysics. Unfortunately he shares a flat with the pre-dropout, the sex maniac and assorted girls.

One of the boys buys a “magic bong” on eBay (note for those who never got into the drug culture and so still have a brain cell or two – a bong is a device for smoking illicit recreational pharmaceuticals). The bong is possessed by a female demon who takes control of the smoker and sucks their soul into the bong, leaving just their dead body behind. Our hero soon realizes there is something sinister about the bong (the number of bodies lying around the flat is a bit of a giveaway) and when his girlfriend takes a puff and is sucked up by the bong he must rescue her the only way possible – take of puff himself, let the bong capture him and then try to save his girlfriend.

Will his purity and innocence be enough? Of course it won’t, but he has help in the form of Tommy Chong, legend of the drug culture movies of the 70s. Tommy plays an old man named Jimbo Leary who once owned the bong. Jimbo decides he must end the evil bong’s powers once and for all, even at the cost of his own life. He beat the bong once before – can he do it again? Armed only with vitamin pills, he also enters the bong. Tommy Chong on vitamins??!! How have the mighty fallen.

The film has that slightly befuddled look that went with a lot of Cheech and Chong movies, as well as a good quota of stoners, semi naked girls, and characters from other movies. Don’t expect great cinema. The film was reputedly shot in only seven days. Either the actors are great at their parts or there was a lot of mind-altering chemical substance around. It’s moderately funny, and if you enjoyed the Cheech and Chong films you will enjoy this one as well.

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