Bong of the Dead (Video 2011)

When the world is taken over by flesh eating zombies, best friends Tommy and Edwin figure out a way to benefit from it by turning zombies into fertilizer for growing potent weed! There will be bud.

Director:

Thomas Newman

Writer:

Thomas Newman

Stars:

Simone Bailly, Mark Wynn, Jy Harris

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Simone Bailly	...	Leah
Mark Wynn	...	Edwin
Jy Harris	...	Tommy
Barry Nerling	...	Alex / Robot Zombie
Vince Laxton	...	Victor Hoagan
Cher Staite	...	Martha
Allan Kipling	...	Woodsman
Scott Fraser	...	Flashback Zombie #1
Tony Langhorn	...	Flashback Zombie #2
Roy Whyte	...	Flashback Zombie#3 / Male TV Voice#2 / Additional Zombie Cast
Lea Coffman	...	News Anchor Woman
Thomas Newman	...	Male TV Voice#1 / Radio Voice (voice)
Aaron Harrison	...	Cop Zombie
Jason Lee	...	Eyeball Zombie
Mike Harilstad	...	Old Man Zombie

Storyline

When the world is taken over by flesh eating zombies, best friends Tommy and Edwin figure out a way to benefit from it by turning zombies into fertilizer for growing potent weed! There will be bud.

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Plot Keywords:

gore | sex in shower | female nudity | drugs | brain eating | 

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Taglines:

There will be bud!

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Genres:

Action | Comedy | Horror

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Details

Official Sites:

Official site

Country:

Canada

Language:

English

Release Date:

12 May 2011 (France)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Mind In Motion Productions, Mind In Motion Digital, Killed by Death Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

91 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby SR Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

Thomas Newman learned how to composite while editing the film by using great tutorials from Andrew Kramer at Video Co-Pilot. Before 'Bong of the Dead' he had no idea how to use After Effects.

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Crazy Credits

Last and most importantly... a very big thank you to all the people who ever said no to me and tried everything they could to stop this film from being made by placing obstacles in my way or by constantly telling me "It's not possible". I made this film specialy [sic] for all of you. Looks like it is possible...

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Soundtracks

"Push"
Performed by: Thomas Newman
Composer: Thomas Newman
Produced by: Andres Santana
Co-Producer: Michael Pedersen
Publisher: MIM Inc.

User Reviews

gore but also too much of talking

This is again a hard one to review. The director, Thomas Newman, did most of the job himself, he edited this flick on Mac and used Protools for sound editing. He also shot the movie himself with one camera using around 350 shots. For that part alone I would give him a big cheer. He also wrote the script and that wasn't that good. Let me explain. I can understand that when you make a low budget flick you have to watch out for special effects because they use a lot of the budget. But this one clocks in at 98 minutes and if he should have made it a bit shorter then it would have been much better. It starts of so promising but after the old couple has turned into zombies and we move 6 months further we start to know the leading actors. It's supposed to be funny but it's so cheap to laugh with a fart. But I'm not into American humour. Most of the comedies coming out there weren't for me funny.

Let's say that almost 60 minutes of this flick is about joking and smoking pot and having fun and meeting a chick and again having fun and having beer and pot and talking much, way too much. After a while you have seen it all about the talking that you eager to see the zombies.

Once the zombies are out it's gore galore and indeed, the red stuff flows and all parts and heads of the zombies are flying around. The way they have been attacked by or friends did remind me of Peter Jackson's Braindead. But there again, some shots do have the latex and syrup but other effects are CGI and you can easily spot that.

But at the end of the day zombiegeeks will love it due the bloody and messy shots but for me the beginning was okay, then too much drivel to end with gory shots. Just watch until the end, in between the end credits there is a surprise.

Gore 3/5 Nudity 0,5/5 Story 2/5 Effects 3/5 Comedy 1/5