Buffy The Vampire Slayer Details

Buffy The Box Office Failure

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.