Something was happening in the late 1990s. The New Queer Cinema wave that blossomed in the first half of the decade had changed the DNA of even mainstream genre films: Gay screenwriters were flourishing with Kevin Williamson’s Scream, Don Mancini’s more queered Child’s Play entry Bride of Chucky, and Silvio Horta’s Urban Legend. And just on the outskirts was Darren Stein’s blackhearted horror-comedy Jawbreaker. Following in the grand high-bitch footsteps of Heathers, Jawbreaker gave us teen femmes so dolled up they were nearly in drag and an all-time evil high-school hellcat, Courtney Shayne (Rose McGowan). Cementing its mission to give the gays everything they wanted was a double serving of Judy Greer as both mousy outsider Fern Mayo and her vampire-glam alter ego, Vylette.
Greer was hardly removed from her college theater days, still planted…
