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The Short: Valley girl Buffy Summers discovers she's the latest in a long line of Vampire Slayers chosen defend the world from the undead fiends. She is guided by Merrick the Watcher, who was born to train Slayers like her against Lothos, an ancient and powerful vampire. Although she loses her place in high school society, she gains a friend in the form of Pike, a slacker who lost a friend to the vampires. Merrick is killed and Lothos' minions attack Buffy's high school dance, but she is able to fight off the horde and kill Lothos.
The Long: We open in what is described as the Dark Ages in Europe and the narrator explains ''Since the dawn of man the vampires have walked among us, killing, feeding. The only one with the strength or skill to stop the hanous evil is the Slayer, she who bares the birthmark, the mark of the coven. Trained by the Watcher one Slayer dies and the next is chosen.'' A young woman with a birthmark is given a wooden stake by a man as he proclames the Slayer is born. Switch to a modern day high school where cheerleaders work a crowd into a frenzy. After the game four girls from the school, Buffy, Kimberly, Nicole and Jennifer go shopping in the mall. They look at a jacket they decide is out of style then decide to go to the movies. A strange man tries to catch the elevator with them, but they blow him off. At the movies the girls talk, much to the bother of two losers, Pike and Benny, who snuck in. After the movie three guys, Jeffrey, Grueller and Andy, pull up in a car. Grueller goes off alone.
Buffy kisses hello to her boyfriend Jeffrey. Grueller walks alone in a closed park and finds a man behind him. That night at Buffy's a news reporter on television reports another slasher death. Buffy's parents leave Jeffrey and Buffy, who make out on the couch. In the past a young woman with a stake interrupts a vampire who is feeding on someone. He runs off, but she jumps him and stakes him. A group of vampires lead by Lothos walk out of the darkness and insult her then attack her. Buffy wakes up in bed. In a large ornate room, the man who snuck up on Grueller talks to a man in a casket about how his family is growing.
The vampires of this film are undead bloodsuckers of a type similar to those seen in the 1987 film The Lost Boys. They can fly, have sharp teeth, pointed teeth and ears and pale skin.
Kristy Swanson as Buffy Summers
Donald Sutherland as Merrick
Paul Reubens as Amilyn
Rutger Hauer as Lothos
Luke Perry as Pike
Michele Abrams as Jennifer
Hilary Swank as Kimberly
Paris Vaughan as Nicole
David Arquette as Benny
Randall Batinkoff as Jeffrey
Andrew Lowery as Andy
Sasha Jenson as Grueller
Stephen Root as Gary Murray
Natasha Gregson Wagner as Cassandra
Mark DeCarlo as the Coach
