{"id":7106,"date":"2011-12-18T16:47:24","date_gmt":"2011-12-18T21:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=7106"},"modified":"2015-10-02T14:16:00","modified_gmt":"2015-10-02T19:16:00","slug":"heathers-1989-michael-lehmann","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/7106","title":{"rendered":"Heathers (1989, Michael Lehmann)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A movie Katy says could not have been made in the last decade, which is possibly why I enjoyed it so much.  You don&#8217;t often see a comedy about high school social strata that includes so much gleeful murder.  Christian Slater (same year as <em>Name of the Rose<\/em>) is the dreamy psycho-killer who drifts into town with his dad, and Winona Ryder (between <em>Beetlejuice<\/em> and <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/7012\">Edward Scissorhands<\/a><\/em>) is a new recruit to the prom-queen-level social class shared by three girls named Heather.  Ryder falls for Slater and semi-unwittingly helps him kill some people, but when he plots to blow up the school, staging it as a mass suicide, she fight back and Slater blows himself up instead.<\/p>\n<p>Writer Daniel Waters went on to help ruin the 1990&#8217;s with <em>Hudson Hawk<\/em> and <em>Demolition Man<\/em> and director Lehmann (also responsible for <em>Hudson Hawk<\/em>) did his part with <em>Airheads<\/em> and <em>My Giant<\/em>, dragging it out into the 2000&#8217;s with <em>40 Days and 40 Nights<\/em> and <em>Because I Said So<\/em>.  Lately he&#8217;s worked on about ten different well-liked TV series.  One Heather, the one who made a brain tumor joke, died in 2001 of a brain tumor, and another costarred in <em>Mallrats<\/em>.  One of the murdered footballers appeared in <em>Ghoulies III<\/em> and the other in <em>Night of the Demons<\/em>.  So, not a supporting cast that went on to fame and fortune.  Good to see Otho from <em>Beetlejuice<\/em> as a preacher presiding over the wave of teen funerals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A movie Katy says could not have been made in the last decade, which is possibly why I enjoyed it so much. You don&#8217;t often see a comedy about high school social strata that includes so much gleeful murder. Christian Slater (same year as Name of the Rose) is the dreamy psycho-killer who drifts into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[357,1469,1467,1468,1390],"class_list":["post-7106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1980s","tag-christian-slater","tag-high-school","tag-michael-lehmann","tag-winona-ryder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7106"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10260,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7106\/revisions\/10260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}