Very Bad Things Movie Review 1998

What begins as a not-so-innocent prenuptial bachelor party in Vegas quickly disintegrates into a murderous blood bath. Kyle (Favreau), the groom-to-be, escapes the clutches of his control-freak fiance Laura (Diaz) with some pals, including unscrupulous yuppie Boyd (Slater). When the hired "entertainment" is killed in a freak accident involving a towel hook, Boyd comes up with the idea of burying her body in the desert and going on with the wedding. A pitch-dark comedy of errors ensues. Peter Berg's first stab at writing and directing has some funny moments, mostly the kind you realize afterwards you shouldn't find funny, but relies too heavily on gratuitous gore and shock value.

Distribution

USA Home Entertainment, 1 W. Forest, Englewood, NJ 07631-4004, Phone: (201)871-1000, URL: http://www.polygram-us.com

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 100 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Buddies, Wedding Hell, Bachelor Party, Black Comedy, Viva Las Vegas!, Hide the Dead Guy

Screenplay

Peter Berg

Cast

Jon Favreau, Christian Slater, Cameron Diaz, Jeremy Piven, Daniel Stern, Leland Orser, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Joey Zimmerman

Cinematography

David Hennings

Director

Peter Berg

Music

Stewart Copeland

Producer

Diane Nabatoff, Cindy Cowan, Ted Field, Scott Kroopf, Initial Entertainment Group, Interscope Comm., BallPark Productions, Polygram