Kristy Swanson, Donald Sutherland, Paul Reubens

A flighty teenage girl learns that she is her generation's destined battler of vampires.

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44% liked it

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32% liked it

34 critics

PG-13, 1 hr. 26 min.

Directed by: Fran Rubel Kuzui

Release Date: July 31, 1992

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DVD Release Date: September 4, 2001

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  • February 1, 2007
    Without this movie, there would be no Sarah Michelle Gellar or arguments about who's the better Buffy.
  • September 22, 2009
    I saw this movie 17 years after it was released. Even after seeing a few of the Buffy TV shows. Perhaps I was expecting too much for the first movie of the Buffy genre. I didn't like it. Too simplistic. Stick to the TV series, and skip this movie.
  • February 28, 2009
    Definitely not as good as the TV show, but not bad ;)
  • August 2, 2008
    hard to believe this spawned a long running tv show
  • February 3, 2008
    Pending Review...

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  • November 20, 2009
    This is a pretty good comedic horror. Kristy Swanson is enigmatic and Luke Perry does a great job as her male counterpart. The film is rather funny, well made and pretty unique for the time. This movie is a classic and well worth watching if you are a fan of the genre - just don'...( read more)t expect it to stack up as well when compared with today's comedic horror films.
  • November 12, 2009
    I still have trouble believing that such a great tv series came from this. it's classic 80's bad.
  • October 26, 2009
    I'm a huge fan of the TV show, so it was going to be hard going into this with an open mind. I knew the creative heights reached by the show so it was going to be hard seeing it as just a bubblegum teen movie. But unfortunately, that isn't even really the problem. I was fine with...( read more) that. Whedon's script is in fact very funny and entertaining, but the film itself is incredibly flat. The direction is so utterly static that it becomes hard to appreciate just how good Whedon's script is. And I get the feeling that the movie was somewhat chopped up.
  • October 16, 2009
    I love the tv show but the movie was absolutley terrible.
  • October 14, 2009
    I think the TV show was probably much better than the movie which started it all. The movie had a very TV-feel to it (ie, production quality).

Critic Reviews


May 12, 2001
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

As a friend tells Buffy while she eyes a fashion purchase, 'It's so five minutes ago.' full review

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  • Buffythevampireslayer01
    March 21, 2008
    This movie wasn't that bad, but for buffy fans you should watch this, I love the show Buffy! :D
  • millameme
    December 11, 2007
    oki i love buffy (L);*
  • lucygoosey
    October 31, 2007
    i agree great series, i love it! but not the best movie. joss whedon did write the script for the movie. But from what i heard Kuzui didnt understand Joss's vision and did a really bad job of directing.
    Agree/disagree???
  • Melty4
    August 29, 2007
    ok we got a moron on the loose, if you can read this that means you can scroll up to the part where it says "more like this" and right there in the movies listed along with lost boys and underworld are the movies shindlers list and e.t., does anybody else notice that. someone please tell me how that could be. That 39% of the people that did see that AGREE (WHAT?!?) with that. no, buffy the vampire slayer and shindlers list should and will never have anything to do with each other. this is making my brain hemmorage, i can feel it. i got to go.
  • muffingurl
    August 1, 2007
    i've never seen this movie, never really feel the need to, but i am IN LOVE with the show. I own all the seasons on DVD and I love Spike! Movie doesn't look that great though.
  • XXimNOTanalcoholicXX
    July 14, 2007
    i strongly agree with pandorasboxx999 seriously great tv show sukyish movie tho xx
  • Sassyangel1184
    May 31, 2007
    I'm ridiculously addicted to the television show (and its spinoff Angel)...but i cannot stand this movie.
  • dozyrozy2k4
    May 23, 2007
    Buffy and Angel .. RULE ALL!!!
  • Heatherlinnmeadows
    May 9, 2007
    Man SpookyRueban has some issues about Buffy lol
    I can not agree with him on the tv show, i thought some of the acting was very good and the writing was good, i especially liked James Marsters ACTING, read:not that he was hot, in the last two seasons.
    hot had nothing to do with it, it was about talent.
    maybe he just tried early seasons before things ggot less cheeky... i dunno... i think the writing was descent and not overly formulamtic... and i criticize writing in eveyrthing as i am a writer myself, i always think i could have done it better, i didnt have too many of those moments with buffy.
    Angel wasnt as good IMO.
    I miss Buffy...
    the movie i saw like the year it came out and tho' novel, i cant stand swanson and perry lol so my view was skewed.
  • bastet05
    May 4, 2007
    Ok, why can't anyone realize that the movie, and the show, really are two completely different universes. It's like with comics- you get different creator interpretations. This one is a comedy rather than being darkly melodramatic.

    This should be obvious and I still cannot find an explanation (besides the obvious conclusion) for all the TV show photos in this movie's photo collection.

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