I was a year into writing the Sunday “Bad” Movies posts when I looked at my collection and settled on a movie that would change my life forever. It was in one of those bargain bin sort of compilation DVDs where they take ten mostly unknown movies and toss them into a cheap set. Well, nine mostly unknown movies if it’s a horror set. The tenth is always Night of the Living Dead. I’d been eyeing this movie up since I first got my hands on the set. The name sounded so ridiculous that I had to check it out. Evil Bong. And so it began.
Watching that first Evil Bong movie was the start of a new era for me. It opened me up to a realm of movies I hadn’t known about to that point. It was directed by Charles Band, the founder of Full Moon Features. I started dipping into that studio’s movies. The Gingerdead Man franchise. The Puppet Master franchise. Robot Wars. Then I went back further in Charles Band’s career, because Full Moon wasn’t his first production company. In the early 1980s, he had Empire Pictures. What did I then watch from that company? Well, Robot Jox, but I saw that before I knew Charles Band. But I plan on covering a few more of the movies from the earlier company.
I’m not here to write about Charles Band, though. I just thought it might be worth the time to give you context about how deep I’ve gone into the Charles Band-iverse. The pinnacle of which has been the Evil Bong franchise. It has acted as a sort of Sacred Timeline to Full Moon Features. Many of the franchises and characters that have existed within the company have made their way into the series. That was true from the very beginning. The Bong World within the first Evil Bong featured cameos by Ivan Burroughs (from the Decadent Evil series), Jack Deth (from the Trancers series), The Gingerdead Man (from the Gingerdead Man movies), and Ooga Booga (from Doll Graveyard). It was like the Bong World was the thread in which every Full Moon Features franchise was tied.
Now I’m seven (technically eight because of the crossover) movies deep into the Evil Bong series. Evil Bong 777 saw Rabbit (Sonny Carl Davis), Faux Batty Boop (Robin Sydney), Misty (Jessica Morris), and Ebee (Michelle Mais) flee to Las Vegas after escaping Sexy Hell. They wanted to stay away from Lucy Furr (Mindy Robinson), who wanted revenge for the events of Evil Bong 666.
The story of Evil Bong 777 was a far cry from where the franchise began. What I want to explore is that evolution of the series. I want to let you, whatever readers I still have in a day and age where attention spans are minimal, know the journey of the franchise and not just the destination. I also want to help myself understand how we got here. Mostly, I want to help myself understand how things went from stoner comedies to… Whatever the hell you would classify Evil Bong 777 as.
Let’s go back a few years. For me, the year was 2013. For the Evil Bong franchise, it was 2006. Those were the years when I first watched Evil Bong and when Evil Bong was first released, respectively. That first movie would be the one that changed Charles Band’s Full Moon Features forever. It was the one that connected so many of his franchises. It would continue connecting them as more movies came out. It was stoner comedy horror where the stoners took hits from a bong and their spirits transported into the bong to be killed by the bong. There just happened to be cameos galore from other Full Moon Features characters who had their spirits trapped in the bong world.
There wasn’t anything all that crazy about the first movie. The premise was made clear early on. There was a real world and a bong world. The stoners were a group of friends and roommates who were saved by the nerd who just moved in and the previous owner of the bong. There were girlfriends and ex-girlfriends and delivery men and grandpas, but the core of the story was that Ebee, the evil bong, was trying to kill the stoners.
The two sequels that followed didn’t stray too far from that premise. Evil Bong 2: King Bong saw the stoners head to the jungle, where they came upon a bong that was eviller than Ebee. It was trying to do the same sort of killing method, only it took whole people into the Bong World instead of just their spirits. There was the added wrinkle of the stoners having side effects to what happened in the first movie, including increased appetites for sleep, sex, and food. Rabbit, the delivery guy who had a bit role in the first movie, tagged along to the jungle with them. In the bong world, the villainous Poontang Tribe tried to roll him into a joint and smoke him.
The first sequel to Evil Bong slowly began the transition of the franchise from its stoner comedy/horror roots to going full… Well, you’ll understand the further I go. Things get way more sexual than the sexual place the movies started. In the first movie, the Bong World was a strip club where the strippers killed the spirits of the victims. Yeah, that’s some sex movie making right off the bat. Evil Bong 2: King Bong, however, made the half-naked to naked henchwomen much more eye candy than a threat. Sure, they tried to roll Rabbit up. I already mentioned that. But they also spent more time standing around, looking pretty. Or naked.
Evil Bong 3D: The Wrath of Bong brought in a bong from outer space to threaten the stoners. It was more of the same. The same stoners, the same idea of being transported to a bong world. All that sort of stuff. The biggest difference was that the new Space Bong had an alien fungus that grew alien weed on anyone it came into physical contact with. There were naked women in this one too, found inside the Bong World.
The point we’re at now in the Evil Bong franchise is where I would put the delineation between a stoner comedy with some sex comedy moments and start the real transition into sex comedies that just happened to feature stoner jokes. As you can see from my brief descriptions, the original trilogy of Evil Bong flicks was about a group of stoner friends who fought off a trio of evil bongs. They ended up in places that had naked women, but the stories were focused primarily on weed. They were addicted to smoking and toking. The weed caused them to, in the case of the second film, have physical and mental ailments and, in the case of the third film, be covered in parasitic alien buds. The weed was always what the stories came back to, even with the strip club of the Bong World or the half-naked armies of henchwomen.
The original trilogy of Evil Bong movies included crossovers to other Full Moon Features franchises. However, the next movie was a full-on crossover that would change the trajectory of the series. Gingerdead Man vs. Evil Bong officially merged two of the Full Moon Features franchises. Larnell, Rabbit, and Velicity returned from the Evil Bong movies. Sarah Leigh, the main character from The Gingerdead Man, was also around. They had to work together to stop Gingerdead Man, who was out for revenge because Sarah Leigh survived his original rampage.
Most of this movie was spent recapping what happened in the previous movies of each series. It was a clip show of sorts, with only bits and pieces of a new story thrown in. I don’t remember how much nudity there was in the movie, but I can tell you that Larnell owned Dick’s Head Shop, which should have told me where things were going with these movies. Oh, and The Gingerdead Man was here to stay. He would be featured in almost all the Evil Bong movies going forward. Not that he hadn’t already been in the first Evil Bong. But he would be a main character now.
Here we are, at the new era of Evil Bong movies. Evil Bong 420 was the first post-crossover movie, and it set the tone for the descent into madness that would be the remainder of the franchise. Rabbit was now the main character. Yes, the delivery guy from the first movie was elevated to main character status. Three of the four stoners from the original trilogy were completely out of the franchise. Rabbit opened a bowling alley. Not just any bowling alley. Rabbit opened a topless bowling alley. The setting of the entire movie was an excuse to show topless women. The focus of the movie had shifted from weed (which was still present, mind you) to boobs. And penises. The Bong World of Evil Bong 420 was a CGI creation and featured phallic looking scenery.
The biggest indicator of the shift to sex comedy within Evil Bong 420, however, was a sex scene set within the bowling alley. I don’t remember any of the Evil Bong movies before this fourth one having a full sex scene within them. This one featured one of the bowling alley employees getting freaky with The Gingerdead Man. As the evil little pastry reached climax, icing shot up to coat the lucky lady’s face. It was clearly a comedic sex scene, but the fact that it was in the movie showed that the focus had moved from weed to sex. Charles Band’s perverted side was coming out more than it had in the past.
I should also mention that more and more porn stars showed up in the Evil Bong movies as they went on. The first movie did have at least one porn star featured as a stripper within the Bong World. The second movie featured a few as the Poontang Tribe, and the third… I don’t know if the third featured any. Evil Bong 420, though… They were getting parts that weren’t just the naked henchwomen for a villain. Two porn stars showed up as themselves at the bowling alley, and a couple more played the henchwomen. This was also the movie that introduced Mindy Robinson into the series, an actress not afraid to show off her butt and boobs in whatever movies she’s in. She’s not a great person, mind you, but she did show off a lot of skin back in the 2010s. Before the MAGA, being at the storming of the capital, anti-vaxxer, conspiracy theorist stuff became her whole personality.
Evil Bong: High 5! was the Evil Bong movie I remembered the least about. I definitely watched it. Looking up the story, I remember that storyline. Do I remember anything specific that happened in it? Not at all. Most of the characters from the previous movie appeared again, including Mindy Robinson, who took off her top. There were porn stars as henchwomen again. Same old same old. There’s not much to take away from that one. Legitimately, I cannot remember a thing about it.
Things got weirder and more sexual in Evil Bong 666. Mindy Robinson was kind of the main character of this one as Lucy Furr, the new owner of a dispensary. She managed to get Ebee and use her as a way to do something with Sexy Hell. Yeah, Hell couldn’t just be Hell. In the world of the later Evil Bong movies, it had to be Sexy Hell, where the devil surrounded himself with naked women. Now this, this movie right here, the one I’m currently writing about, was where the movies became a full-fledged sex comedy that just happened to be set in the world of weed. Okay, Evil Bong 420 was kind of that too, but this one was egregious.
I don’t remember a sex scene in Evil Bong 666, but I do remember the crazy amount of nudity. The demons in Sexy Hell were always topless. Mindy Robinson was flaunting. The only things that really kept it within the realm of stoner comedy were Lucy Furr owning a dispensary, and the creation of The Gingerweed Man. Larnell wasn’t even there, and he was the only one of the stoner friends from the original trilogy that had lasted beyond those three movies. This was a fully changed franchise.
That change would continue with Evil Bong 777, which was the least stoner movie of the entire franchise. There wasn’t much of a story to latch onto in Evil Bong 777. They went to Vegas, they stopped at a show, they went to a hotel, and they hid out at a museum. There was barely a conflict. They were running the whole time. The entire confrontation between the good guys and the bad guys was about ten seconds and didn’t put anyone in harm’s way. It felt like the entire movie was made because they liked the idea of 777 being Las Vegas, rather than to tell a compelling story. Not that story has been much of a thought post-crossover.
The only real references to weed that were left in Evil Bong 777 were things that didn’t help shape the story at all. The Gingerweed Man was there. He was on the run with the characters. His absence wouldn’t have really changed anything. They could have swapped him out for The Gingerdead Man and the story would have stayed the exact same. It wasn’t like they smoked him or he smoked anything. He was just kind of there. The same with Ebee. The other reference was that the characters called a rideshare service to pick them up. Instead of being called Lyft, it was called Splyft, and the driver provided customers with weed. That was it.
Most of the screentime for Evil Bong 777 was devoted to being a sex comedy, showing how far the movies had swung into that new genre. One of the first things the characters did upon arriving to Las Vegas, after the obligatory drive down the strip, was go to a performance. That performance involved a porn star having a full-on sex show with a life-sized puppet Elvis, nicknamed Hellvis. This was an extended scene of the porn star grinding up against Hellvis before being penetrated with his big, studded dildo penis until she reached climax. The comedy came from the puppet. The sex came from the… well, the sex. It was like a comedic softcore scene in the middle of a movie from a franchise that started out as a stoner horror comedy.
Then there was the whole middle portion of the movie where the characters were hooking up, or at least trying to. Faux Batty Boop and The Gingerweed Man shared a hotel room and were doing all the things to lead up to foreplay and sex. When Faux Batty Boop went into the washroom, The Gingerweed Man called up a call girl. They proceeded to get caught in the act when Faux Batty Boop returned. Then there was Rabbit, who met a woman down in the hotel bar. He invited her back to his room and things started to get hot and heavy. Then, in the most insensitive scene of this movie that came out in the year of our lord, 2018, Rabbit fled his own hotel room upon learning that she was a transwoman who had a penis.
Finally, there were still the scenes of Sexy Hell, where the devil had his topless women sidekicks. Lucy Furr was there trying to find a way to escape and get to the crew in Las Vegas for revenge. Those things were par for the course, at this point. They didn’t up the ante into sex comedy in the same ways as the other parts of Evil Bong 777 that I mentioned.
This has been a thirteen-year journey to get me to this point. I watched Evil Bong all the way back in 2013, the early days of Sunday “Bad” Movies. The name piqued my interest. A movie about an evil bong sounded like the right kind of movie for the blog. I was correct in that thought. It led me into some interesting places. It gave me a whole series of sometimes interesting movies to write about. It opened me up to all the movies in the Full Moon catalogue, really. I wouldn’t be sitting here right now, writing about Evil Bong 777, after thirteen years of this blog, without having taken a chance to watch that first Evil Bong movie so long ago.
Over those thirteen years, I ventured through a series of movies that slowly but surely shifted from beginning as a stoner comedy with horror and sex elements to a sex comedy with horror and stoner elements. I went on a side quest through The Gingerdead Man and its sequels. I learned, while writing this post, that I should probably go through the Killjoy movies. Not just because Faux Batty Boop was inspired by those movies, but because characters from the Evil Bong movies appeared in one of the Killjoy movies. It has been a wild ride that isn’t quite done yet.
I know this wasn’t necessarily the best post I’ve written. That’s fine. Writing this one was much more for myself than anyone reading this. I needed to come to terms with how and when this franchise transitioned into being so obsessed with sex and nudity. I needed to type it out to sort of accept that this sort of stuff had always been there. It simply became more prominent as the franchise went on. This was me exorcising my demons after watching a movie and wondering where it even came from. Now I know. And knowing is half the battle.
What you’re going to know now are these notes:
- Here are links to the posts for Evil Bong, Evil Bong 2: King Bong, Evil Bong 3: The Wrath of Bong, Gingerdead Man vs. Evil Bong, Evil Bong 420, Evil Bong: High 5!, Evil Bong 666, The Gingerdead Man, The Gingerdead Man 2: Passion of the Crust, and The Gingerdead Man 3: Saturday Night Cleaver.
- Here are all the movies directed by Charles Band that have been covered in Sunday “Bad” Movies so far. Evil Bong, The Gingerdead Man, Evil Bong 2: King Bong, Evil Bong 3: The Wrath of Bong, Gingerdead Man vs. Evil Bong, Evil Bong 420, Evil Bong: High 5!, Evil Bong 666, Puppet Master X: Axis Rising, and Puppet Master: Axis Termination. Of course, Evil Bong 777 now as well.
- Robin Sydney has now been in eleven movies for Sunday “Bad” Movies. They were Evil Bong, The Gingerdead Man, Evil Bong 2: King Bong, Evil Bong 3: The Wrath of Bong, Gingerdead Man 3: Saturday Night Cleaver, Gingerdead Man vs. Evil Bong, Evil Bong 420, Evil Bong: High 5!, Evil Bong 666, Puppet Master: Axis Termination, and Evil Bong 777.
- Mindy Robinson popped up in Evil Bong 777. She could also be seen in movies like The Coed and the Zombie Stoner, Chicks Dig Gay Guys, Samurai Cop 2: Deadly Vengeance, Gingerdead Man vs. Evil Bong, Evil Bong 420, Evil Bong: High 5!, Evil Bong 666, and Sharknado: The 4th Awakens.
- Sonny Carl Davis and Michelle Mais have each been in all the Evil Bong movies. No need to link them this time. All the movies have been linked thrice already, at least.
- Now we jump down to the Five-Timer’s Club, where the newest member is Robert Ramos. He’s been featured in Gingerdead Man vs. Evil Bong, Evil Bong 420, Evil Bong: High 5!, Evil Bong 666, and Evil Bong 777.
- Tonya Kay made her fourth Sunday “Bad” Movies appearance in Evil Bong 777, following roles in Evil Bong 666, The Amityville Terror, and Puppet Master: Axis Termination.
- Peter Donald Badalamenti II showed up in Evil Bong 777, after appearing in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, Gingerdead Man vs. Evil Bong, and Evil Bong 666.
- Two series regulars for the Evil Bong franchise were Circus-Szalweski (Evil Bong 3: The Wrath of Bong, Evil Bong 420, and Evil Bong: High 5!) and Caleb Hurst (Evil Bong 420, Evil Bong: High 5!, and Evil Bong 666). They both appeared in Evil Bong 777.
- Jessica Morris and Diana Prince each made their third Sunday “Bad” Movies appearances in Evil Bong 777. They were each also in Evil Bong 666 and Puppet Master: Axis Termination.
- Alan Maxson was in Evil Bong: High 5!, Evil Bong 666, and Evil Bong 777.
- Tanya Tate returned to Sunday “Bad” Movies in Evil Bong 777 after first showing up in Evil Bong 420.
- Noelle Ann Mabry made her Sunday “Bad” Movies return in Evil Bong 777. She had previously been a part of Evil Bong: High 5!.
- Three actors from Evil Bong 666 popped up in Evil Bong 777, as well. They were Brooks Davis, Nathan Martin, and Marc Pearce.
- Robert Frashure and John Taylor now have two Sunday “Bad” Movies appearances under their belts. They were in Evil Bong 777 and Puppet Master: Axis Termination.
- Finally, we have Eli James. He was in Foodfight! And Evil Bong 777.
- Have you seen Evil Bong 777? Have you seen any of the Evil Bong movies? What did you think of them? You should be able to find them on Tubi. Let me know your thoughts in the comments or on Bluesky.
- If there’s a movie you think I should check out for a future Sunday “Bad” Movies post, let me know what it is. You can get a hold of me on Bluesky, or drop a comment.
- As for a look forward, I’m basically where I was last time I had a post to go up. The next post will be about Big Shark. That should be next week. Beyond that, I’m wide open. It’ll be whatever I’m so inclined to check out and write about. Before I get to the post two posts from now, I should get the next post done, though. I’ll see you soon for Big Shark.




























