Bong of the Living Dead

It's a great zombie genre comedy for the first 20 minutes but then it becomes a slowing moving zombie drama. It's obviously borrowing from films like the Shaun of the Dead, Return of the Living Dead and the tv show, The Walking Dead.

The plot follows a group of mostly childhood friends, who are now bong-friendly adults fending off a zombie attack. It has interesting visual transitions which seem inspired by Zack Snyder's Dawn of the Dead remake.

The one strong thing it has is that it was made like George Romero's the Night of the Living Dead with a strong community support. In this case, the film's support is from Ohio.

I was in the mood for watching some terrible zombie movies so put on this another another couple and 2/3 ended up being surprisingly good.

I really thought with a title like 'bong of the living dead' was going to be an awful amateur film full of in jokes and poor acting but actually it's decently shot, acted and written.

The characters are all pretty likable, there's bits of practical fx that are quite nice and there's some fun observations about zombie films. I laughed a few times and I actually felt something for the characters, partially because it showed how four of them grew up together and in a way were looking forward to the apocalypse. There was some nice, well deserved character development when it wasn't what they'd hoped.

The only negative is that one of the characters seems to very suddenly completely change and then completely change back without any real reason given.

Still, I'd actually recommend and I might watch again.

Well done everyone.

Bong of the Living Dead is about a group of stoner friends who are obsessed with zombie movies and then actually get to live through a real zombie apocalypse. Not a bad theme.

The characters are not particularly interesting or likable, but most are at least okay. The beautiful Cat Taylor as a bubbly, New Agey chick named Danielle who says super random stuff is the most entertaining and lovable character. On the other hand, the character called Christ turned out to be a selfish, verbally abusive jerk for no apparent reason.

Some of the humor lands a few chuckles and a couple of the action scenes are okay but there are a few too many scenes of the cast just smoking weed, eating cereal, and getting into (mostly dumb) arguments. I get that it's a stoner movie but it became a tad monotonous. The movie is only about 80 minutes long but probably should have been closer to 60 minutes.

I noticed that this movie has very much of a 1990s feel to it even though it's from 2017. Not necessarily a criticism, just an observation. For example they work at a video rental store, I don't recall seeing anyone use a smartphone, and at home they sit around watching a Spanish language shopping channel because their television doesn't get any other stations. No mention of YouTube or a streaming service like Netflix. Their world has a very retro feel to it, although that could also be an Ohio thing. The movie is set and filmed in that state. It is always nice to see a film set and filmed somewhere (anywhere) other than California or British Columbia.

I wouldn't go as far as recommending Bong of the Living Dead but it is watchable. If you like quirky, low budget B movies like I do, you could do worse. But you could also do so much better.

I had a feeling this indie comedy was going to be pretty poor and, unsurprisingly, I was right. BONG OF THE LIVING DEAD is the usual attempt at a slacker comedy mixed with a zombie movie, but SHAUN OF THE DEAD it isn't. The plot, what little of it can be said to exist, involves a group of pothead twentysomethings who hang out in a house during a zombie outbreak. That's it. There's a heck of a lot of attempted comedy, none of which works, and the chance to spend ninety minutes of your life with some resolutely annoying characters. The zombie action is limited and pathetic when it occurs, and the satire is non-existent.

Bad script and zero character development. I couldn't begin to tell you what a bong has to do with the title. There is not one redeeming quality about this film.