CREDITS HEATHERS, 1989 dir: Michael Lehmann Winona Ryder Christian Slater Shannen Doherty Glenn Shadix

“Well, fuck me gently with a chainsaw. Do I look like Mother Theresa? ”

Teenage fantasies of revenge on the revolting, snobby ‘Heathers’ and the macho jocks are cranked up to murderous heights when mean ëní 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.

The John Adams Middle School, 2425 16th Street, Santa Monica was also used.

The name Westerburg is a nod to Paul Westerburg, lead singer of Winona Ryder’s fave band of the time, The Replacements.

The opening croqet match was filmed in the statue garden of the Huntington Library, 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino (seen in Indecent Proposal).

The jocks’ ‘cow pushing’ takes place in a quiet corner of Griffith Park, LA.

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