"Heathers" gave Winona Ryder an early-career flop , but it wasn't a failure by any means, as the dark teen comedy has since gone on to become a cult classic. The story centers around Ryder's character, Veronica Sawyer, who gets accepted into her high school's most popular — and unpleasant — social clique, the Heathers, and simultaneously starts dating an outcast, J.D. (Christian Slater), who wants to kill all of the popular kids. Despite its gruesome premise, "Heathers" is one of the best movies about high school ever made , and it almost became a '90s TV series — until "Beverly Hills, 90210," a bona fide smash hit, ruined everything.

In an interview with Entertainment Weekly for the outlet's 2014 oral history of the film, "Heathers" writer Daniel Waters revealed that he and directo

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