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Heathers Reaction

🕑 Added 2023-02-21 21:26:32 +0000 UTC

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Liam Catterson

if people want it haha

Cay Anne

One of my favorite movies

Eclair W

Hey, are you going to react to The Heathers musical too?

Matt E.

Theres also a musical adaptation that is pretty fantastic as well :)

Liam Catterson

I need to rewatch it for sure :) Might have to bring it up with the fiancee on our movie nights :)

Matt E.

One other piece of context that I think helps explain this movie a bit is that it was pretty explicitly a response to the popularity of John Hughes teen dramas of the time. Everyone in John Hughes films, most explicitly in breakfast club, is more an archetype than a character, and Heathers takes some of those same archetypes, turns them up to 11 and examines at their dark sides. The harm of the stratification and hierarchy that a John Hughs high school represents, and the dangers of romanticizing the rebellious bad boy.

Matt E.

More than anything I think this movie is a perfect example of what "camp" is and can be. From the opening scene of veronica burried up to her neck, it masterfully blends this surreal over the top aesthetic with real serious issues in a way that imo manages to take everything to thr extreme, but without losing tension, or making the characters completely unbelievable.