Heathers (1989)

The pitch-black answer to every cozy clique movie. Winona Ryder's Veronica is tired of serving the three Heathers who run her school, and Christian Slater's brooding new boyfriend offers her a far more permanent way out. Daniel Waters's script treats murder, suicide and the media's appetite for teen tragedy as material for satire, and it is still savagely quotable. It flopped at the box office and found its audience later as a cult film, which suits a movie this hostile to popularity. Be ready for jokes built on real violence at a school; some viewers will find that harder to laugh at now than audiences did at the end of the 1980s.