| Genres: Horror, Comedy, Action |
| Tagline: Sometimes it takes more than just good looks to kill. |
| Plot Outline: A flighty teenage girl learns that she is her generation's destined battler of vampires. |
| Plot Synopsis: Buffy thinks very highly of her keen fashion-sense. In fact, fashion, cheerleading, movies and parties are all she ever thinks about. Then one day, Merrick approaches her; telling her she has a specific mission in life - killing vampires. What good is her "keen fashion-sense" in her new daily tasks? |
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Quotes
Buffy: Does the word "duh" mean anything to you?
Benny: Let me in, Pike. I'm *hungry*!
Pike: C'mon, you're floating, man. Get away from me!
Buffy: I've got something the other girls don't.
Merrick: And what's that?
Buffy: My keen fashion sense!
Merrick: Oh, vampires of the world beware.
Merrick: None of the other girls ever gave me this much trouble.
Buffy: And where are they now? Hello!
How funky is your chicken?
How funky is your chicken?
How loose is your goose? Our goose is totally loose!
So come on all you Hog fans,
come on all you Hog fans
and shake your caboose, shake your caboose!
WHoooO!
Movie Trivia
- Ben Affleck appears in one scene as a basketball player.
- Seth Green, the only person in the movie to be in the spin-off show, was cut from the movie, but still appears on the video cover
- Buffy's last name is never mentioned in the movie. Not until the release of the series was she referred to as Buffy Summers.
- In the original version of the script, Merrick committed suicide to escape being turned into a vampire by Lothos, who wanted to know the Slayer's identity so he could dispatch with her.
- The original script by Joss Whedon was heavily re-written to make the film "lighter". In the original script, Buffy burns down the school gym that the dance is being held in, in an effort to destroy the vampires. In the television series ("Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (1997) this fact is referred to several times, as the series is seen as a spin-off of the original, unproduced screenplay rather than this film.
- In the original film script, Buffy burns down the gym to destroy the vampires in the end. This is referred to in the series opener.
- Alyssa Milano was originally set to play Buffy.