Best scene in the movie is when they spend 20 minutes running away in terror from Orson Welles. Real life situations.

kate winslet has been out there doing it for the lesbians for all this time

Though not on the same level as Peter Jackson's earlier horror/dark-comedy flicks as this one isn't as truly imaginative as those, Heavenly Creatures still does a well enough job at showcasing a dramatic turn for the director, and its inclusion of psychological/dark fantasy elements are very much welcomed here as they are most certainly effective, even if only slightly.

Both Melanie Lynskey & Kate Winslet do mostly substantial work in this for their feature film debuts for sure, and their notorious characters in the film are no doubt incredibly credible as they convincingly portray two teenage girls whose passionate intimacy leads them into dire consequences with enough validity.

Props to Jackson for retaining the same slick & exuberant camerawork from his prior works too as that also made Heavenly Creatures somewhat more suitable, even if it does get a bit too exaggerative on some occasions due to the film's disquieting subject matter at hand.

if only they had just let these gals be pals .......... :(

I love vintage homicidal lesbians

be gay do crime

86/100

I've soured so much on Peter Jackson over the past decade or so that I was a bit scared to revisit this, for fear that it would join The Frighteners in my retroactive discard pile. Not to worry—it's still a disturbingly euphoric marriage of his vulgar instincts with his newfound ambition, achieving an ideal balance between the two that he's never been able to recapture. The breakneck pace and swooping camera adroitly reflect Pauline and Juliet's adolescent ardor, and it's somehow no less galvanizing, 20 years and umpteen performances later, to see Lynskey and Winslet burst into the medium together, fully formed and ferocious. (I didn't launch the Skandies until the following year, but it's hard to imagine that they wouldn't have been in a dead heat for Best Actress, unless Winslet was seen as Supporting. Only possible competition would have been Linda Fiorentino in The Last Seduction.) Wrote some additional thoughts in a Scenic Routes column.

i too would develop an unhealthy obsession with kate winslet to the point of delusion

I've always admired the way this creates enough empathy for the characters that you don't hate them for what they do, but doesn't create so much empathy that you can completely forgive them or otherwise not see the horror in their actions. It's pretty economical and energetic. I miss this Peter Jackson.

precious.

A) I think this the only movie where Jackson successfully mixes his sensibilities together - manic, George Miller style freako-melodramatic camp & haunted but empathetic portraits of violence or brutality without falling into Lovely Bones territory

B) Thoroughbreds might as well have been a remake of Heavenly Creatures

And it was based on a real story?????????no!? This movie is nuts

jamás me hubiese imaginado que exista una película true crime de lesbianas que incluye un mundo de fantasía donde Orson Wells es lo peor que existe

Blends reality and fantasy in seamless fashion. Jackson captures Pauline and Juliet’s obsessive friendship as well as the extremes of their teen emotional states perfectly too. Very good stuff.

Fuck me up, Peter Jackson, why don't you

lesbians and homicides, my two true passions

yes lesbians and crime

Se juntas já causam, imagine juntas

This screams queer.