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Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Blonde, bouncy Buffy is your typical high school cheerleader. But all that changes when a strange man informs her she's been chosen by fate to kill vampires.
1992 · Directed by Fran Rubel Kuzui · 85 min · Action · Comedy · Horror · Screenplay in the scene database · 11 frames
Tagline
She knows a sucker when she sees one.
Plot
Buffy Summers is a cheerleader at Hemery High School in Los Angeles. Her main concerns are shopping and spending time with her rich, snooty friends and her jock boyfriend, Jeffrey. While at the mall one day, she is approached by a man who calls himself Merrick. He informs her that she is the Slayer, or "Chosen One", destined to kill vampires and his duty as her "Watcher" is to guide and train her. Buffy, thinking he's a crazy homeless man, rebuffs him.
Merrick later convinces Buffy of her birth-right by vividly describing a recurring dream of hers and taking her to stake two new vampires in a graveyard. She realizes that her natural agility, flexibility, strength, and heightened senses are in fact signs that she possesses the abilities of a Slayer. While he stands by his duty as "Watcher", Buffy repeatedly tries Merrick's patience with her indifference to slaying and sharp-tongued remarks. Merrick informs Buffy that her duty is to slay the elder vampire Lothos, who is plotting to rebuild his former brood with the aid of his loyal acolyte, Amilyn.
Meanwhile, struggling mechanic Pike and his friend Benny are out drinking when they're attacked by Amilyn. Benny is turned, but Pike is saved by Merrick. After a run-in with the now vampiric Benny, Pike decides to leave town. He runs into Amilyn and his gang of vampires, and Buffy and Merrick rescue him from being turned. After this encounter, Pike insists on helping Buffy and they become friends despite a previous dislike of each other.
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Crew
- Written by: Joss Whedon
- Cinematography: James Hayman
- Edited by: Jill Savitt, Camilla Toniolo
- Music: Carter Burwell
- Production design: Lawrence Miller
- Produced by: Howard Rosenman, Kaz Kuzui
Cast
- Kristy Swanson as Buffy Summers
- Donald Sutherland as Merrick Jamison-Smythe
- Paul Reubens as Amilyn
- Rutger Hauer as Lothos
- Luke Perry as Oliver Pike
- Hilary Swank as Kimberly Hannah
- Michele Abrams as Jennifer
- David Arquette as Benny
- Natasha Gregson Wagner as Cassandra
- Thomas Jane as Zeph
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Kuzui Enterprises, 20th Century Fox, Sandollar Productions
- Budget: $7,000,000
- Box office: $16,624,456
- Themes: high school, vampire, cheerleader, dating, fashion, unlikely friendship, valley girl, duringcreditsstinger, woman director, teenage mortality
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