Flighty teenage girl Buffy Summers learns that she is her generation's destined battler of vampires.Flighty teenage girl Buffy Summers learns that she is her generation's destined battler of vampires.Flighty teenage girl Buffy Summers learns that she is her generation's destined battler of vampires.
- Awards
- 2 nominations
Thomas Jane
- Zeph
- (as Tom Janes)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaDespite claiming he was cut from the movie, Seth Green does appear in it, although it is just for three seconds, and for two of them he is seen from behind. He is the short red-haired vampire that gets kicked by Buffy outside the gym when a group of vampires, including him, are taunting her. You can recognize him by his haircut alone.
- GoofsWhen Benny is floating outside Pike's window, his reflection is visible.
- Crazy creditsAmilyn (Paul Reubens) revives to go through some more death throes.
- Alternate versionsThe German TV-version has got a few cuts to get a 'not under 12' rating.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Heartstoppers: Horror at the Movies (1992)
- SoundtracksKeep It Coming (Dance 'Till You Can't Dance No More)
Written by Robert Clivillés, Anthony Quiles, Duran Ramos and David Cole
Produced by Robert Clivillés and David Cole for Cole/Clivillés Music Enterprises
Performed by C+C Music Factory (as C & C Music Factory) featuring Q-Unique and Deborah Cooper
Courtesy of Columbia Records
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Tongue-in-cheek but it doesn't make a great movie
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.
"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.
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Sprache
- Also known as
- Buffy, la caza vampiros
- Filming locations
- Production companies
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Box office
- Budget
- $7,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $16,624,456
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $4,515,541
- Aug 2, 1992
- Gross worldwide
- $16,625,256
- Runtime1 hour 26 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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