Wait. This has a 4.7 just 5 years ago?

Perverted and disgusting is not comedy. Everyone who liked this movie - go tell your wives or mothers you liked it. Watched their faces. That is how you are supposed to feel.

One of Boyd's best quotes in the movie sums up exactly why it's brilliant and why most people can't get into it: "If you take away the horror of the scene, take away the tragedy of the death, take away all the moral and ethical implications that have been drilled into your head since grade one, do you know what you're left with? A 105-pound problem that needs to be moved from point A to point B."
It's really an underappreciated masterpiece, and Christian Slater and Daniel Stern both had pretty hilarious performances in this, with Slater making a hell of a bad guy, and kind of hilarious he'd be done in by Diaz who was just as much a bad woman when it came down to it. Had a perfect karma-tic ending to it too, which is what pisses me off when people say there's no redeeming qualities to it. Not that there needs to be redeeming qualities in a movie, but what actually happens to the characters based on the horrible actions they've all taken is perfectly redeeming.

Well just over 5 years ago this had a 4.7 on IMDB and now it's at 6.3.
I'm glad this movie has finally been finding it's audience over the years. I guess it was somewhat ahead of it's time. The sort of black humor in Very Bad Things is much more prevalent these days.
I first saw this movie when I was far too young to see it back when it first came out and I was only 11 but for some reason I loved it and have watched it so many times over the years and love it more and more each time I watch it.

I like
good
black comedies;
Very Bad Things
is a black comedy manqu.

It's a VERY black comedy and a bloody brilliant film. And it wasn't Rene Russo who bit Christian Slater in the nuts..it was Jeanne Tripplehorn.

Some people don't like dark comedies.

It was okay, not great and not horrible. The piss-poor performances did drag it down a bit.

Agree, this film managed to be both funny and violent - a real dark comedy, very underappreciated.
and no one got hit in the balls
Someone got bitten in there though
Boycott movies that involve real animal violence! (and their directors too)

rene russo wasn't in the movie

"You dont know what good comedy is". But I do - which is why I think Very Bad Things is well overrated on IMDb. To be honest, it did have a few scenes that were actually funny (like the Stern guy bumbling in the gas station and Slater declaring the vans full of love or that other guy wailing and howling at the funeral), but mostly the jokes fell totally flat. Not to mention the most basic failing of the writer(s), the inability to comprehend that certain things simply are too far gone on the grisly side to be funny, no matter how you spin them - like, for instance, mutilation, or re-composing of corpses. Generally speaking, Im very f-cking far from being an advocate for good taste in movies, but this little fillum here really does cluelessly cross the line and I doubt even a truly gifted filmmaker could have made it work much better. So, for once I actually do agree with Roger Eberts moral judgement - this movie is indeed pretty reprehensible stuff. It plays sort of like a very crass and stupid mans The Hangover - and that film itself wasnt exactly your highbrow entertainment to begin with. Peter Berg should stick to acting - after all, he was hilarious in The Last Seduction.
Also, Rene Russo did bite down on Slater`s balls hard (in a desperately unfunny scene), so the "hit in the balls" department is also pretty much covered.
"facts are stupid things" - Ronald Reagan

I know right!
People who don't like their beliefs being laughed at shouldn't have such funny beliefs

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If you're going to say it belongs in the top 100 movies of all time, then I think
you
are the effing moron.

I disagree. This was terrible and had no realistic of redeeming qualities. Also, I laughed a total of 0 times. One of the stupidest movies ever made in my opinion.

yup, they totally are. This movie has been in my top 10 favorite movies since I first saw it, and I don't tend to change it anytime soon.
I Dianna Agron!

totally agree!! people are clueless to whats funny! idk how many times iv cn peple laugh at some dumb corny hot garbage of a movie. 98 was such a great year for movies, they just dont make watchable movies nemore!!!
"I DONT LIKE TO LOOK AT THA FACE"