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Overview

User Rating:
5.3/10   15,001 votes
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Director:
Fran Rubel Kuzui
Writer (WGA):
Joss Whedon (written by)
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Release Date:
31 July 1992 (USA) more
Genre:
Horror | Comedy | Action more
Tagline:
Pert. Wholesome. Way Lethal. more
Plot:
A flighty teenage girl learns that she is her generation's destined battler of vampires. full summary | full synopsis
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(14 articles)
Hilary Swank honored today with Hollywood Actress Award at Hollywood Film Fest
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"I Didn't Even Break A Nail!" more (210 total)

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Additional Details

MPAA:
Rated PG-13 for comic vampire violence and drug references.
Runtime:
86 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby
Certification:
Iceland:14 (original rating) | Iceland:16 (video rating) | Canada:A (Nova Scotia) | Finland:K-16 | Australia:PG | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Canada:PA (Manitoba) | Canada:PG (Ontario) | Germany:12 | Singapore:PG | UK:15 (video rating) (1993) (cut) | UK:15 (video rating) (2002) (uncut) | USA:PG-13 (certificate #31838) | UK:12 (original rating)

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
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 more
Goofs:
Factual errors: When trying to 'bond' with Buffy, the school administrator confesses he used drugs while watching the Doobie Brothers in the ‘60s. The band didn't form until 1970. more
Quotes:
Buffy's Dad: Ok Honey, be good.
[Kisses Buffy]
Buffy's Dad: And stay away from the Jag!
Buffy: Good bye.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Dark Age (#2.8)" (1997) more
Soundtrack:
INNER MIND more

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12 out of 15 people found the following comment useful.
"I Didn't Even Break A Nail!", 17 March 2003
6/10
Author: Scott LeBrun from Winnipeg, Canada

Buffy (Kristy Swanson) is a stereotypical South California high school girl who is informed by a man named Merrick (Donald Sutherland) that she is "The Chosen One" of her generation and that she will have to fulfill her destiny as a hunter and destroyer of vampires. Right away she has to go to work as vampire leader Lothos (Rutger Hauer) and his sidekick (Paul Reubens, in one of his best non-Pee Wee Herman roles) are gobbling up the young population of L.A.

Light, air-headed 1990's L.A. spin on vampire stories is reasonably fun. You could do worse than this.

High marks for the cast. Swanson is perfect for her role and ably supported by Sutherland, Reubens, Hauer, Luke Perry, David Arquette, and Hilary Swank (in a pre-Oscar role).

As we all know by now, this was the film that inspired the subsequent TV series starring Sarah Michelle Gellar as Buffy.

Slightly above average so I give it six out of ten.

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