Otto_Partz_973

If you can believe that a man who is literally bleeding from the face and head would be seated in a nice restaurant without comment, you might enjoy this.

Really, man, take a few minutes and wash up. It might make you feel better.

The pig was easily the best thing here; once gone - and that's five minutes into the film - it's just silly, pretentious and pointless. And when the reveal comes it's spit out so quickly as to be incomprehensible but by that time I didn't care anyway.

If you've seen 'Hereditary' (you probably have) or Ben Wheatley's ' Kill List' ( you probably have not, but should) then you've already seen two movies that explore the central idea of 'The Empty Man' in much more chilling and effective ways. Not a terrible film by any means but the denounment was so derivative of these superior films that it left a bad impression.

Very bad, indeed. Bad script, bad performances, bad direction, bad, bad, bad. I was expecting a lot more from a very talented cast, so I can only lay the blame with writer/director Peter Berg. This poor guy has no sense of what makes for a 'black' comedy. 'Very Bad Things' is devoid of irony or satire; instead, its' cardboard characters lurch blindly through silly moments spouting impossibly bad dialogue. 'Go', released the following year, is an example of black comedy done well: sharp dialogue, a diverse cast of characters and insane but ultimately believable scenarios. Hell, this isn't even up to the rather low bar of 'Drop Dead Gorgeous'. One reviewer here compared this to 'Dr. Strangelove'; are you kidding me?