Buffy the Vampire Slayer

1992 "She knows a sucker when she sees one."
5.7| 1h26m| PG-13| en| More Info
Released: 24 July 1992 Released
Producted By: 20th Century Fox
Country: United States of America
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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.

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Karry Best movie of this year hands down!
StyleSk8r At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.
Freeman This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.
Kayden This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama
jacobjohntaylor1 This a great movie. It is one of the scariest movies of all time. It has a great story line. It also has great acting. It also has great special effects. 5.6 it a good ratting. But this is such a good movie 5.6 is underrating. This is a great movie. I give 10 out of 10. It his a true horror classic. See it. It is a great movie. The show it good. This is a better. See it. It is a classic. I need more lines and I am running out of things to say. This is a great movie great movie great movie great movie great movie. If you like good horror stories then you will like this movie. It is a great movie.
guisreis This is an unpretentious and funny high school action movie with vampires. Very beautiful young Kristy Swanson does a good job playing charismatic and initially futile Buffy. Even the most obvious clichés are nice to be seen performed by her: Silverstone-Clueless-style emptiness, martial arts and vampire-slaying practice, cheer-leading for the basketball school team. Both arrogance and tenderness are convincingly portrayed at her pretty face. Quite remarkable was also Donald Sutherland in the role of Buffy's tutor, Merrick. The film gets campy sometimes, but it is not a flaw. It is quite good in what it intends to do (and that is not to frighten or to be serious). Indeed, I laughed a lot! Seeing Hillary Swank in her very first movie playing one of Buffy's best airhead friends is something to be highlighted. The same can be said about having Rutger Hauer as the comic master vampire. My positive review has nothing to do with being a fan of the TV show, as I have never watched it.
Morbius Fitzgerald I mean it when I say it in the title, of all the crushed visions from writers that I've seen. This one is easily the best.This film is in the shadow of it's remake, the TV show that everyone loves SO much. Joss Whedon also admitted he hated the end result of this film and the director changed his vision, a lot of material was altered to make it a campy teen comedy. In spite of ALL of this, I still managed to enjoy it.The acting is okay, well sort of. Kirsty Swanson will ALWAYS be compared to Sarah Michelle Gellar and unfortunately for her, SMG does portray the character better. However Swanson led the role with a certain finesse about her that was still well done. Donald Sutherland also does a good "pre-Giles" watcher.I do think this film is okay, it has its moments - I compare the guidance counselor with some of my other teachers when he says(during the final battle) "I've got detention slips, and I'm not afraid to use them." On that note as well, expect that sort of humor. If you thought that sounded like crap or "too corny" for your taste I suggest watching the show.If you watch this THEN the show(or for most people, the other way around), you will find many inconsistencies with the source material. For example the ending is that Buffy defeats the Vampires, dances with Pike in the school hall and they both ride away on a motorcycle together. In the show Buffy apparently burned the school hall down in an effort to stop the vampires (which is why she got expelled) and she moves to Sunnydale with her mom only. The main reason this happens is because of Whedon's last draft, he apparently left the project midway through production and never came back. I look at this film as something COMPLETELY separate to the show for this reason.Overall this is seen as the "ugly sister" to its TV counterpart. Even though this film as MANY weaknesses, its not too bad for a watch or two.
FlashCallahan Buffy is an air-head cheerleader who is chosen by a guy named Merrick to fend the world of Vampires.When Merrick first informs Buffy that she is the "chosen one," she thinks he's crazy, but then strange things begin to happen.First, Buffy's friend Cassandra and many other kids form her school turn up missing and are later found "dead" with bite marks on their necks.After many other strange occurrences, Buffy then realises that those bite marks were made by vampires, and that they really are out there.This film has a lot to answer for, Namely SMG's career. I have never seen a full episode of the TV series, and never will, but I went to see this at the cinema as a child because it was near Halloween and it was about vampires.The fact of the matter is, the film is boring, and only Swanson and Perry look interested in being in the movie.Sutherland pops up every now and again, looking like a poor mans Father \Merrin, and as for Rutger Hauer, he looks ashamed.Yes, Swank, Affleck, and Arquette are in the movie, but they have hardly anything to do.Swanson is the saving grace though. She is sassy and everything you could want from a dawdling Slayer.I just wish that the rest of the cast could have shown interest.