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Heathers

1988 Directed by Michael Lehmann

Best friends, social trends, and occasional murder.

A girl who halfheartedly tries to be part of the "in crowd" of her school meets a rebel who teaches her a more devious way to play social politics: by killing the popular kids.

Winona Ryder Christian Slater Shannen Doherty Lisanne Falk Kim Walker Penelope Milford Glenn Shadix Lance Fenton Jennifer Rhodes Jeremy Applegate Patrick Labyorteaux Jon Matthews Carrie Lynn Phill Lewis Renée Estevez John Zarchen William Cort John Ingle Stuart Mabray Sherrie Wills Larry Cox Kent Stoddard Mark Carlton Curtiss Marlowe Andrew Benne Kevin Hardesty Josh Richman Bess Meyer Betty Ramey Show All…

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Review by Simone ★★★★½ 6

I tried to write a review, but I can't.

All that's running through my head is "Dear Diary: My teen angst bullshit has a body count."

I really wish I could rewind time and watch this as my high school self.
Review by Eli Hayes ★★★★½ 3

"I LOVE MY DEAD, GAY SON!"
Review by iana ★★★★★ 1

smart movies don’t exist anymore because heathers took all the best lines
Review by Sean ★★★★½ 11

Looking back at a lot of high school set comedies, I’m finding it hard to think of any movie that I can even compare to Heathers.

Obviously starting in the ‘80s looking for possible contemporaries, John Hughes immediately comes to mind. Nope, that doesn’t work. Heathers is infinitely darker, more mature, and is in no way shape or form even close to John Hughes movie. If you go in looking for something along those lines you will be sorely disappointed. Okay, so that doesn’t really fit. What about heading into the ‘90s? With the rise of raunchier teen sex comedies, surely Heathers fits into those circles. Nope, wrong. Heathers is far more complex and probably raunchier than those films dream…
Review by 𝔧𝔬𝔰𝔢 ★★★★★ 1

i want both jason and veronica to fuck me gently with a chainsaw
Review by robert ★★★★

can't wait till school gets cancelled because i killed myself in a repressed homosexual suicide pact

Recent reviews

Review by jonathan ★★★★★

“whether to kill yourself or not is one of the most important decisions a teenager can make”

this is genuinely one of the best screenplays of all time, i laugh like every other line and i’ve seen it probably 10 times
Review by warhola1966 ★★★★★

Wow
Review by FanOfWords

Those wondering where Diablo Cody got her shtick from may enjoy this '80s teen comedy. It's all there – from the pseudo-slang (“What's your damage?”, “it'll be really very”), to the ludicrous affectations (Winona Ryder intermittently wears a monocle). Today, Heathers is no longer the hard-edged or revolutionary picture it might have once seemed, but there are laughs to be had in some of the throwaway satirical barbs, like the fact that mineral water is seen to be synonymous with homosexuality.
Review by Aline Serrão ★★★½

“Whether to kill yourself or not is one of the most important decisions a teenager can make.”
Review by Ethan Donnachie ★★★★½

I went into Heathers expecting a fun, campy, cheesy 80s horror comedy flick that I'd love to bits, and while that's exactly what I got, I managed to leave this film with my head spinning trying to come up with a phrase to sum up the overall message of this film, and just like teenage suicides, it puts across so much that the only way to really understand what this film says to you is not to have someone tell you what the film is about, rather to just watch it yourself.

This was a long sentence, goodnight.
Review by zuki ★★★½

it's like an extended 80s music video but with added high school depression
Review by theo ★★★★

this movie definitely has its own "aesthetic" (that means that I've never seen one like this before) and the end is so f*cking iconic!!!!
Review by zoe_ah ★★½

this movie just skeeves me out too much i’m not sure how else to say it
Review by vi ★★★★

honestly, a hoot. so macabre and funny.