Heathers film locations
Film locations: Los Angeles
Heathers location: ‘Westerburg High’: Osaka Sangyo University of Los Angeles, Laurel Canyon Boulevard, Studio City, San Fernando Valley
Teenage fantasies of revenge on the revolting, snobby ‘Heathers’ and the macho jocks are cranked up to murderous heights when mean‘n’moody crackpot JD (Christian Slater) moves into the high school of Veronica Sawyer (Winona Ryder).
This superb black comedy would have been even blacker had the original ending been kept.
Set in ‘Sherwood, Ohio’, ‘Westerburg High’ is a conflation of several schools, but the main location was the old Corvalis High School, Studio City in the San Fernando Valley. The school closed in 1987, and it's now Osaka Sangyo University of Los Angeles, 2921 Laurel Canyon Boulevard at Maxwellton Road about half a mile from Ventura Boulevard.
The gym is Verdugo Hills High School, Tujunga, seen in many other movies, including The Craft, 187 and River’s Edge.
Heathers location: The ending on the steps of ‘Westerburg High’: John Adams Middle School, 16th Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles
The explosive ending takes place on the steps of the auditorium at John Adams Middle School, 2425 16th Street, Santa Monica.
The name Westerburg is a nod to Paul Westerburg, lead singer of Winona Ryder’s fave band of the time, The Replacements.
The opening croquet match was filmed in the statue garden of the Huntington Library and Gardens, 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, east of Pasadena. The house and grounds have been seen in plenty of other movies, including Indecent Proposal, American Wedding, Memoirs of a Geisha and Serenity.
The jocks’ ‘cow pushing’ takes place in a quiet corner of Griffith Park, Los Angeles.
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Los Angeles: Flights: Los Angeles International Airport (LAX)
Visit: Huntington Library and Gardens, 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, east of Pasadena
Trivia
Verdugo Hills High School regularly hosts filming: see it in River’s Edge, with Keanu Reeves, 187 with Samuel L Jackson, The Craft and high school spoof Not Another Teen Movie
In Tujunga you'll also find the home of Elliot from E.T.