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Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992) 5.4
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Metascore: 48/100
Reviews: 223 user | 64 critic | 17 from Metacritic.com A flighty teenage girl learns that she is her generation's destined battler of vampires. Director:Fran Rubel KuzuiWriter:Joss Whedon |
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Cast
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Buffy Summers has the lifestyle any young woman could want. Cheerleading, dating the captain of the basketball team, and copious amounts of time spent shopping with friends. She had no idea of her true calling until a mysterious man named Merrick approached her and told her that she is the Slayer; one woman called to defend the world from vampires. Reluctant to concede to the fact, Buffy soon learns that Merrick speaks the truth and so begins to take her new life seriously while trying to maintain the sense of normality her life had once been. With her best friends slowly abandoning her, Buffy finds solace in the town outcast, Pike, who knows very well the terrors that have arisen. Together, they combat the forces of the old and powerful vampire, Lothos, who has his eyes set on Buffy. Written by Vampire-Sharpshooter
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Homework. Cheerleading practice. Killing vampires. No one said high school would be easy. See more »Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
Rated PG-13 for comic vampire violence and drug references | See all certifications »Parents Guide:
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
31 July 1992 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Buffy, a vámpírok réme See more »Filming Locations:
Merry-Go-Round, Griffith Park - 4730 Crystal Springs Drive, Los Angeles, California, USA See more »Box Office
Budget:
$7,000,000 (estimated)Gross:
$16,624,456 (USA)Company Credits
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Pike: I can't move my legs.
Buffy: Why?
Pike: 'Cause you're sittin' on them.
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Written by Dean Dinning, Randel Guss, Todd Nichols and Glen Phillips
Produced by Gavin MacKilliop
Performed by Toad the Wet Sprocket
Courtesy of Columbia Records
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Did You Know?
Trivia
Screenwriter Joss Whedon found Donald Sutherland extremely difficult to be around. Sutherland rewrote most of his dialogue and scenes, often making the scenes incomprehensible in Whedon's opinion. Whedon praised Sutherland's abilities as an actor, but called his behavior "rude" and Sutherland himself "a dick." See more »Goofs
During the cemetery scene with Buffy and Merrick you hear a loon calling on more than one occasion. A loon would be on a lake, not in a cemetery. They can barely walk on land, and they only take part in calling during the morning and evening hours, never late at night. See more »Quotes
Buffy: Are you okay?Pike: I can't move my legs.
Buffy: Why?
Pike: 'Cause you're sittin' on them.
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Crazy Credits
TV interviews with people who were at the dance attacked by vampires. See more »Connections
Referenced in Conan: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo on Her Face Who Was Unemployable (2011) See more »Soundtracks
"LITTLE HEAVEN"Written by Dean Dinning, Randel Guss, Todd Nichols and Glen Phillips
Produced by Gavin MacKilliop
Performed by Toad the Wet Sprocket
Courtesy of Columbia Records
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First off I have to say my review of this movie may be somewhat coloured by my adoration of the television series. Despite sharing a few superficial elements - a character called Buffy who slays vampires and who has a watcher
- the two are quite distinctive (even if Joss Whedon penned them
both)."Buffy" here is very much played with a tongue-in-cheek. It's Clueless meets Dracula. Buffy and her cohorts are shallower than an evaporated puddle and Buffy can only learn to grow up when heaped with the responsibility of being the Chosen One, destined to slay vampires. The vampires in question are just people with white faces played up in quite a camp manner and bare little resemblance to the sharp, wise, smart vampires favored by both the TV series and other movies.
There's no acting of any note and the plot is wet-paper thin. The direction isn't memorable... so what stops the movie getting a 0 or a 1? The humour. The movie is played for laughs, taking a bit of a dig at pop culture and vampire lore. There's some great lines in it - particularly the "kill him A LOT!" line. Watch the coach at the basketball game for similar humour, and there is an unforgettable vampire staking towards the movie end that's very amusing.
The movie looks like it was shot on a shoe-string budget (adding to the camp tongue-in-cheek parody feel) and has none of the production values we'd see Whedon employ later on. What it does have is a sometimes very amusing line in black humour offset somewhat by an irritating need to follow the "Clueless" mould of teenagers (which was, admittedly, the trend at the time). It's not an awfully bad movie but it's not really all that good. In the end it's a 5.5/10 from me.