'This'll be the kind of thing to infect a generation! It'll be a Woodstock for the 80s!'   / 'If you want the ultimate, you've got to be willing to pay the ultimate price. It's not tragic to die doing what you love.'

What have a classic high school satire and a camp action film got in common? Sex and death, of course! We explore late 80s /early 90s ennui as the breeding ground of films that both examine and encapsulate postmodernist depthlessness, chasing the only high left at the end of history: the end of life. In Heathers, would-be school-shooters seek stimulation in callous suburbia, while Point Break positions the endless chasing of the next wave as a hedonistic alternative to the dull bureaucracy of a hollowed-out state. But thrill-seeking is a pastime with an expiration date...