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\"\"It\u2019s Winona Ryder<\/a>\u2019s 50th birthday, which is wild because it seems just like yesterday that she was an angsty, gothy teen in films like Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael <\/em>and Beetlejuice<\/em>. Since her earliest onscreen appearances in the mid- to late \u201980s, Ryder has often gravitated toward outsider roles, whether as a lonely teen with a fixation on Catholicism (Mermaids<\/em>) or a young woman struggling to get a grip on her mental health (Girl, Interrupted<\/em>). That comfort with the dark side has also led her to some of her most iconic performances. With her birthday falling just days before Halloween, it seemed like the perfect opportunity to celebrate some of her most macabre films along with her bit 5-0.<\/p>\n

Heathers<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

\"\"The blackest of all teen comedies, Heathers<\/em> has somehow become both a cult classic and<\/em> a cultural touchstone. Ryder stars as Veronica, a reluctant insider in her high school\u2019s clique of mean girls (including Shannen Doherty), all of whom are named Heather. But when charming sociopath J.D. (Christian Slater) arrives, he sniffs out Veronica\u2019s inner ennui and tempts her into a killing spree, offing the school\u2019s tyrannical popular kids and making their deaths look like suicides. It doesn\u2019t get much darker than that.<\/p>\n

Beetlejuice<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

\"\"Ryder is in full goth mode as troubled teen Lydia in her first Tim Burton film. Swathed in black lace, Lydia is seemingly unphased to discover that her family\u2019s new home is haunted by more-or-less benevolent ghosts Barbara and Adam (Geena Davis and Alec Baldwin<\/a>). But there\u2019s also a more comically devious ghoul lurking in the shadows. Invoked by Barbara and Adam to rid their home of its living inhabitants, Betelgeuse (Michael Keaton) runs amok, inevitably setting his sights on Lydia, the goth of his dreams.<\/p>\n

Edward Scissorhands<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

\"\"When Ryder next teamed up with Burton, she found herself playing against type as Kim, a beautiful, popular blonde teenager ensconced in pre-fab suburbia. Into this retro world comes Edward (Johnny Depp), an artificial man with scissors for hands. Despite his frightening appearance, Edward is actually a gentle innocent, and he and Kim fall in love. But Burton\u2019s modern fairy tale has shades of both Beauty and the Beast<\/em> and Frankenstein<\/em>, which should give you a sense of where Kim and Edward\u2019s relationship is headed.<\/p>\n

Bram Stoker\u2019s Dracula<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n

\"\"Like her co-star Keanu Reeves, Ryder took a lot of heat for her performance in Francis Ford Coppola\u2019s take on Dracula<\/em>. And no, neither of their British accents are what you might call good<\/em>. But this film is such a hothouse of swooning imagery, the performances hardly matter. In Coppola\u2019s version of the story, Ryder\u2019s Mina finds herself romanced by the immortal Count Dracula (Gary Oldman), an illicit courtship that sees her transform from chaste schoolmarm to wanton bride of darkness.<\/p>\n

Stranger Things<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

\"\"After a difficult period in the early 2000s, Ryder has been experiencing a bit of a career renaissance lately, the highlight of which has undoubtedly been her turn as single mother Joyce Byers in Netflix<\/a>\u2019s genre nostalgia series Stranger Things<\/em><\/a>. The hit show centers around a group of kids who discover a dark dimension filled with monsters that can cross over to our world. But as the mother of one of the boys, Ryder not only lends her old-school goth cred to the series; she\u2019s also a complicated, dynamic presence onscreen, able to deliver moments of motherly warmth as well as frenetic, panic stricken energy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29097,"featured_media":39142,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[23,38,3324,16],"yoast_head":"\nWinona Ryder Reigns Supreme as a Queen of the Macabre<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"It\u2019s Winona Ryder\u2019s 50th birthday, and with Halloween just a few days away, it seemed like the perfect opportunity to celebrate some of her most macabre films along with her bit 5-0.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/winona-ryder-queen-of-the-macabre\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta 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