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Name: Buffy, the Vampire Slayer
Released: 1992-7-31
Cast: Kristy Swanson, Donald Sutherland, Paul Reubens, Rutger Hauer, Luke Perry

Buffy, the Vampire Slayer

PG-13
1h 26m
1992

36%

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Blonde, bouncy Buffy (Kristy Swanson) is your typical high school cheerleader-- her goal is to "marry Christian Slater and die" and nothing gets in her way when it's time to shop. But all that changes when a strange man (Donald Sutherland) informs her she's been chosen by fate to kill vampires. With the help of a romantic rebel (Luke Perry), Buffy is soon spending school nights protecting L.A. from Lothos, the Vampire King (Rutger Hauer), his sidekick, Lefty (Paul Ruebens) and their determined gang of bloodsuckers. It's everything you'd expect from a teen queen in the Valley.

Director:

Fran Rubel Kuzui

Producer:

Kaz Kuzui, Howard Rosenman

Writer:

Joss Whedon

Cast:

Kristy Swanson, Donald Sutherland, Paul Reubens, Rutger Hauer, Luke Perry

EXTRAS

Locked video

FEATURETTE

4 MIN

Locked video

THEATRICAL TRAILER

1 MIN

TV SPOTS

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

36%

Critics Consensus: Buffy the Vampire Slayer's supernatural coming of age tale is let down by poor directing and even poorer plotting -- though Kristy Swanson and Paul Reubens' game performances still manage to slay.

Reviews

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David Nusair

There's ultimately never a point at which Buffy the Vampire Slayer is entirely (or even partially) able to live up to the seemingly foolproof nature of its high-concept premise...

As silly as its title suggests, Buffy the Vampire Slayer manages to deliver a sly message about female strength and the fragility of sexual stereotypes.

While it would be a mistake to oversell "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," the sad and/or happy truth is that you could do worse on a warm summer night. A lot worse.

The idea of mixing vampires and modern teens has, of course, been tried before... But it has never been done with so much sophistication - yes, sophistication.

''Buffy'' shuffles through a number of styles and approaches, from the satirical to the Grand Guignolesque, but never treats its material with much respect.

March 26, 2019

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