In BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER, a fully accessorised L.A. high school cheerleader (Kristy Swanson) is informed by a mysterious stranger (Donald Sutherland) that she is destined to battle vampires. Soon she's wreaking havoc on a local chapter of bloodsuckers. But when the top vampire (Rutger Hauer) vows revenge, it totally fouls up .. Read more
| Starring | Kristy Swanson, Donald Sutherland, Rutger Hauer, Luke Perry |
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| Director | Fran Rubel Kuzui |
| Genres | Comedy, Horror |
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In BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER, a fully accessorised L.A. high school cheerleader (Kristy Swanson) is informed by a mysterious stranger (Donald Sutherland) that she is destined to battle vampires. Soon she's wreaking havoc on a local chapter of bloodsuckers. But when the top vampire (Rutger Hauer) vows revenge, it totally fouls up her social schedule. This film, featuring a script by BUFFY mastermind Joss Whedon, is the forerunner to the popular television series.
| Starring | Kristy Swanson, Donald Sutherland, Rutger Hauer, Luke Perry, Randall Batinkoff, Pee-Wee Herman, Sasha Jenson, Andrew Lowery, David Arquette, Mark De Carlo, Hilary Swank, Thomas Jane, Stephen Root |
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| Director | Fran Rubel Kuzui |
| Studio | 20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 21 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Collections | 100 Feisty Females |
| Genres | Comedy, Horror |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Hearing-impaired | English |
| Subtitles | DVD: Croatian, Czech, Danish, English, Finnish, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Swedish, Turkish |
| Released | DVD: 03 Mar 2003 Production year: 1992 |
| Format | DVD |
Clueless meets Dracula in this engagingly silly, yet knowing, horror comedy that deserves cult status. Kristy Swanson is cheerfully dim-witted as LA teenager Buffy, who's surprised to discover that she is actually the only person who can save the city from suave Rutger Hauer and his fellow vampires. Director Fran Rubel Kuzui rightly plays it like a comic strip and draws perfectly judged performances from an eclectic cast that also includes teen heart-throb Luke Perry, Donald Sutherland, an unrecognisable Paul Reubens (Pee-wee Herman) and an uncredited appearance from Ben Affleck. Fun, but fans of the TV series starring Sarah Michelle Gellar will be disappointed.
"...High-spirited....[Swanson] provides the ideal combination of energy and comic disdain that characterize a most unlikely savior..."
If, like me, you're a pretty big fan of the television series of Buffy The Vampire Slayer then you're probably reading this review because you're thinking of checking out the film that started it all. My advice to you would be simply this: don't. It's so bad it made me want to paint a bullseye on my neck and run naked through Sunnydale singing 'come and have a go if you think you're hard enough'. The acting is terrible, the dialogue painful and the plot's obviously been put through a shredder and taped back together with no consideration for pacing or the build up of tension at all. How they ever managed to convince the powers that be to finance a series after this is beyond me.
Well if your a fan of the TV series, you should probably watch this for 2 reasons. 1. this is set before the first season of the TV series and expains a lot of things that are mentioned in the first season, 2. you can see why joss whedon wanted to do it his way, because this is pretty bad compared to what you see now. On it's own it's not a bad film, actually it's rather enjoyable and to anyone who has never seen Buffy, watch this first and then move on to the first season and you will be surprised how different they are. I doubt that if they had made the first season like this, it would have made a seventh.It's not all bad, but it does seem like an early 90's vampire movie, trying to capture lost boys stature.
Buffy The Vampire Slayer producers have brushed off rumours Hollywood siren Megan Fox has signed up to star in the TV show's upcoming big screen revival - insisting casting has yet to begin. The title character in the blood sucking series, most famously played by Sarah Michelle Gellar, was originally brought to the cinemas in the 1992 movie of the same name, starring Kristy Swanson. Gellar's TV show ran for six years before coming to an end in 2003. And Fox has been a rumoured favourite to... Read more