Buffy is an air-head cheerleader who
is chosen by a guy named Merrick
to fend the world of Vampires. When Merrick first informs Buffy that she is the "chosen one," she thinks
he's crazy, but then strange things begin to happen. First, Buffy's friend Cassandra and many other kids form her school turn
up missing and are later found "dead" with bite marks on their necks. After many other strange ocurrences, Buffy then realizes
that those bite marks were made by vampires, and that they really are out there. She comes to to horrifying truth that she
is the "chosen one."
Kristy
Swanson - Buffy Summers
Donald
Sutherland - Merrick Jamison-Smythe
Paul
Reubens - Amilyn
Rutger
Hauer - Lothos
Luke
Perry - Oliver Pike
Michele
Abrams - Jennifer Walkens
Hilary
Swank - Kimberly Hannah
Paris
Vaughan - Nicole Bobbittson
David
Arquette - Benny Jacks
Randall
Batinkoff - Jeffrey
Andrew
Lowery - Andy
Sasha
Jenson - Grueller
Stephen
Root - Gary Murray
Natasha
Gregson Wagner - Cassandra
Mark
DeCarlo - Coach
Thomas
Jane – Zeph
Candy
Clark - Buffy's Mom
James
Paradise - Buffy's Dad
David
Sherrill - Knight
Liz
Smith - Reporter
Paul
M. Lane - Robert Berman
Toby
Holguin - Vampire Fan
Eurlyne
Epper - Graveyard Woman
Andre
Warren - Newscaster
Bob
'Swanie' Swanson - Referee
Erika
Dittner - Cheerleader
J.T.
Cole - Biker
Michael
Kopelow - Student
Ricky
Dean Logan - Bloody Student
Bobby
Aldridge - Vampire
Amanda
Anka - Vampire
Chino
Binamo - Vampire
Al
Goto - Vampire
Terry
Jackson - Vampire
Mike
Johnson - Vampire
Sarah
Lee Jones - Vampire
Kim
Robert Koscki – Vampire
Clint
Lilley - Vampire
Chi
Moui Lo - Vampire
Jimmy
N. Roberts - Vampire
David
Rowden - Vampire
Kenny
Sacha - Vampire
Ben
Scott - Vampire
Kurtis
Epper - Vampire
Sharon
Schaffer - Vampire
Lincoln
Simonds - Vampire
Ben
Affleck - Basketball Player #10
Bryan
Goeres - Basketball Player
Ricki
Lake - Charlotte
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 this fact is referred to several times, as
the series is seen as a spin-off the original, unproduced screenplay rather than this film.
Alyssa Milano was originally set to
play Buffy.
# Continuity: After Pike talks to
Buffy while on his motorcycle, he does a turn toward the photo booth. You see a close up of him just as he his revving up
his bike, and he is maybe two to three feet from the photo booth, which is not enough room to do the maneuver. In the next
shot, you then see him about six or seven feet from the booth, and he does the maneuver.
Continuity error: As Pike is driving
his van with Amilyn holding onto the hood, the position of Amilyn's right hand switches back and forth from the roof to the
hood between shots.
Revealing mistake: Wires are visible
when Robert Berman flies up out of his grave for the first time.
Audio/visual unsynchronized: After
Buffy punches Merrick, she gives her "Marry Christian Slater and die" speech. The reverse angle of
Merrick shows Buffy's lips still moving, even though no dialogue is heard.
Audio/visual unsynchronized: At the
end of the film, Buffy and Lothos are fighting, and using wooden poles, yet the sound effects are of two metal poles hitting.
Boom mike visible: After the opening
titles, Buffy and her friends are shown at the mall in an overhead shot and the boom mike casts a shadow on the floor.
Plot hole: After Benny becomes a vampire,
he pays Oliver a visit and you can see his reflection in the glass as he is talking to Oliver.
In the end credits there are TV interviews
with people who were at the dance attacked by vampires. Also Amilyn (Paul Reubens)
revives to go through some more death throes.
In the original UK
video release, the scene in which Lothos ignites Buffy's cross is cut. Instead of immolating his head, she merely flees.
The German TV-version has got a few
cuts to get a 'not under 12' rating.
