Kristy Swanson

Donald Sutherland

Paul Reubens

Rutger Hauer

Luke Perry

Hilary Swank

Michele Abrams

David Arquette

Natasha Gregson Wagner

Thomas Jane

Ricki Lake

Stephen Root

Sasha Jenson

Candy Clark

Paris Vaughan

Randall Batinkoff

Andrew Lowery

Mark DeCarlo

James Paradise

David Sherrill

Paul M. Lane

Toby Holguin

Eurlyne Epper

Andre Warren

Bob Swanson

Erika Dittner

J.T. Cole

Michael Kopelow

Ricky Dean Logan

Bobby Aldridge

Amanda Anka

Chino Binamo

Al Goto

Terry Jackson

Mike Johnson

Sarah Lee Jones

Kim Robert Koscki

Clint Lilley

Chi Muoi Lo

Jimmy N. Roberts

David Rowden

Kenny Sacha

Ben Scott

Kurtis Epper

Sharon Schaffer

Lincoln Simonds

Ben Affleck

Alexis Arquette

Slash

Liz Smith

Eric DaRe

Seth Green

James Hayman

Howard Rosenman

Fran Rubel Kuzui

Carter Burwell

Jill Savitt

Joss Whedon

Johanna Ray

Lawrence Miller

Sandy Gallin

James R. Barrows

Randy Moore

Carol Baum

Claire Jenora Bowin

Dennis Stuart Murphy

Camilla Toniolo

Kaz Kuzui

Alex Butler

Marie France

Ann Brodie

Cynthia Kerr

Heather Ann Ryan

Lisa Ratzin

Terry Leonard

Michele Chong

Jani D. Davis

Donna Evans

R. Vincent Smith

Trey Batchelor

Steve M. Davison

James Lew

Action

Comedy

Horror

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Kuzui Enterprises

20th Century Fox

Sandollar Productions

United States of America

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"Buffy" (Kristy Swanson) is a typical teenage cheerleader. Happy to go through life with her handsome boyfriend worrying, with her friends, about what to wear at the senior's ball. Enter Donald Sutherland's "Merrick" who can see into her rather florid dreams. Next thing, she is in a graveyard in the dead of night demonstrating some neat ninja vampire-impaling skills as she learns that she is the object of the desires of arch-vampire "Lothos" (Rutger Hauer). Luckily for her, pixie-esque, hapless mechanic "Pike" (Luke Perry) is on hand to help her as this small town soon becomes little better than a farm for their new hungry visitors. Yep, it's terrible. The acting relies on some serious ham from Messrs. Sutherland, Hauer and Raul Reubens' "Amilyn" as well as some cheery acrobatics with backflips and somersaults galore. Swanson plays her part for all that it's worth; I certainly couldn't fault her enthusiasm and Perry was an handsome man and provides an extra degree of slightly comedic eye-candy in what is otherwise a throwaway television movie that is probably only ever going to be remembered for spawning the television series five years later. I didn't hate it, I have to say. It reminded me of the whole "Beverly Hills 90210" fever that hit the UK at the start of the 1990s, and taken in the context of a light-hearted teen flick with little or no scare, gore, or horror is just about watchable.

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992) - Trailer