Heathers - 1988 ***

A very nasty movie. One that doesn't really qualify as a 'school movie' because it's far too dark.

Winona Ryder attempts to fit in with the popular crowd at school known as the Heathers. Although popular, they are hated rather than adored and all secretly miserable. She wants to be a part of their group, but also hates them enough to kill them. Que Christian Slater who is an outsider with his own style and look. He hooks up with Veronica ( Ryder) and the two decide that they cannot allow the Heathers to continue their torment on the nerdy and timid members of the school, and so they hatch a plan to get rid of them, one by one.

It's quite a good idea for a story, and I for one can remember wishing the popular group at school would just disappear and stop having this weirdly invisible hold on everyone else.

Towards the end of the film however, it becomes almost like a psychotic thriller which is deeply unsettling. I got the distinct feeling that I shouldn't be watching a film like this because it made me feel strange, but I managed to hang on until the end.