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		List Price: $29.97		Label: Starz / Anchor Bay Salesrank: 1571 Released: November 18, 2008
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		MPAA Rating: R (Restricted) Media: Blu-ray

Editorial Review:
It made overnight stars of Winona Ryder and Christian Slater,shocked uncool film critics everywhere and became oneof the biggest cult classics of the ʻ80s. Twenty years later, HEATHERS remains the only brilliantly black comedy about peer pressure, malicious croquet and having abrain tumor for breakfast. At Westerburg High where cliques rule, jerk jocks dominate and the most popular girls are all named Heather, itʼs going to take a Veronica (Ryder) and the mysterious – and possibly psychotic – newkid J.D. (Slater) to give teen angst a body count. Shannen Doherty co-stars in the most cruelly hilarious high school movie ever made,featuring a new, high quality transfer. The extreme always seems to make an impression: Heathers is back like youʼve never seen or heard it before!

Description of Heathers [Blu-ray]:
This dark comedy from 1989 was a good showcase for Winona Ryder, playing a high school girl brought into a clique of bitchy classmates (all named Heather), and Christian Slater, doing his early Jack Nicholson thing. While Ryder's character mulls over the consequences of giving up one set of friends for another, her association with a new boy (Slater) in school turns out to have deadly consequences. Director Michael Lehmann turned this unusual film into something more than another teen-death flick. There is real wit and sharp satire afoot, and the very fusion of horror and comedy is provocative in itself. Heathers remains a kind of benchmark in contemporary cinema for bringing surreal intelligence into Hollywood films. --Tom Keogh


Stills from Heathers (Click for larger image)

Beyond Heathers

Heathers - 20th High School Reunion Edition

Heathers - Limited Edition Box Set

Heathers (THX Version)

Heathers [Blu-ray] Reviews:
Heathers (blu-ray)
2009-08-09 - Heathers has never looked so good....and is just as good as i remember it being when i was younger. The exras are ok...although they repeat themselves a bit. i will say though that the humor seems even darker now that we live in such a PC world....

Long overdue release
2009-05-21 - Nice to be able to get a really great looking transfer on a film that needs it. The use of colours alone warrants this.

The classic black comedy get a steller Blu release!!!
2009-02-27 - The classic black comedy Heathers has been finally released on Blu Ray by Anchor Bay!!! Great PQ,sound and extras!!! Anchor Bay did a great job w/ this one! A+

Definitivamente sobrevalorada
2009-01-14 - Una pérdida de tiempo. A mi gusto se trata de una película sobrevalorada, llena de clichés y lugares comunes, con pretensiones de ser más de lo que realmente es. Lo único rescatable es el rol de Winona Ryder, que de por sí, hace que valga la pena ver cualquier bodrio, y hace menos penoso el haber invertido mi tiempo y dinero es ver este pseudo panfleto ochentero.

How very! - A Three-timer's Review of the Blu Release
2008-11-27 - What more can be said about an classic 80's movie? Probably not much, if anything. The odds are that most or almost all of those going for the Blu release already own the DVD or remember watching the VHS tape or maybe the movie in the theater, back in the 80's. I will therefore focus on my impressions as an owner of the DVD as I watched the Blu Heathers and asked myself if it was worth buying it.

[For anyone who is new to Heathers, my advice is maybe read some movie reviews and then 'buy it' or at least 'watch it' and, if you are going to buy it, buy the Blu, if you have a Blu player.]

So, not sure if this is a statement about 'Heathers' or about the reviewer (that would be me) but, the fact is that I had Heathers as a VHS tape before I had it as a DVD. This Blu 20th anniversary is a timely and needed release and it doesn't disappoint.

To make it short, what you get it's very much the Blu-enhanced release of the Heathers DVD. It sounds better, the colors are shaper and more brilliant. I don't believe I noticed any artifacts and, in some instances, I did have a few 'aha' moments where the Blu resolution enhancements were evident. This being a re-release of a late 80's movie and a late 90's DVD, the details are not as sharp as an original Blu but my suspicion is that even the original picture had an added and very slight dream-suggesting blur-glow as the story line tends to follow the border between a make-believe reality and a world of dreams and wishes that usually have something to do with murder or violence.

Surprisingly, for such an inexpensive port to Blu, this 'Heathers' comes with a VERY useful Blu-specific feature that I don't believe could be implemented on a DVD. The 'Fast Film Facts', when selected, will have little post-it-like notes to pop-up during the playback, giving us some insights on what's going on behind the scenes, sometimes literally. For example, we learn that One of the Heathers was Christian Slater's real-life girlfriend, that Winona turned 16 while working on Heathers, that Heaters was released in Europe as 'Lethal Attraction', that the movie was done on a $2 million budget and that budgetary constraints were responsible for many shortened scene and for the somewhat botched ending.

In addition, the two featurettes are very much worth watching. They've been done approximately 10 and 20 years after Heathers' debut with the more recent, "Return to Westerburg High" being shot in HD.

Overall, even though I still have the DVD version, I am happy to add Heathers to my Blu-ray library and it's not likely that I will ever play the DVD again. For a Blu-ray release, NOT a restoration, this is as good as it gets and the price is right. I hesitated between a 4-star vs. a 5-star rating. And it was the compromised ending that tipped the balanced down. Regardless, I will always love this movie and, as teen, dark comedies go, Heathers will always be the frame of reference.