Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a 1992 comedy horror film directed, by Frank Rubel Kuzui starring Kristin Swanson and Donald Sutherland.
The film is a light parody which plays on the clichés of typical horror movies. The film also led to a popular TV series of the same name, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, which was created and executive produced by screenwriter Joss Whedon.
Plot[]
Buffy Summers has the lifestyle any young woman could want. Cheerleading, populaity, dating the captain of the basketball team, and copious amounts of time spent shopping with friends. She had no idea of her true calling until a mysterious man named Merrick approached her and told her that she is the Slayer; one woman called to defend the world from vampires.
Reluctant to concede to the fact, Buffy soon learns that Merrick speaks the truth and so begins to take her new life seriously while trying to maintain the sense of normality her life had once been. With her best friends slowly abandoning her, Buffy finds solace in the town outcast, Oliver, who knows very well the terrors that have arisen.
Together, with Merrick´s help, they combat the forces of the old and powerful vampire, Lothos, who has his eyes set on Buffy and manage to defeat him in time, but at the price of Merrick dying at the hands of Lothos.
List of deaths[]
The following is a list of notable deaths in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992). The characters who are considered good are written in green, while the "bad" characters are red. If the character is neither good nor bad, the name is written in white.
| Name | Cause of Death | Killer | On Screen | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Benny | Fed on by Amilyn, dies of blood loss and turned into a vampire. Staked by Pike in the climax and dies for good. | Amilyn, Pike | Yes | |
| Cassandra | Kidnapped by Amilyn and presented to Lothos to feed on. She's bitten, dies of blood loss offsceen and later seen as a vampire. | Lothos | No | While technically still dead due to being made into an undead being. Her ultimate fate is unknown if she was among the vampires staked at the dance, the film never clarifies if she fully died at the end. |
| Male Graveyard Vampire | Bitten and fed on by a random vampire offscreen, dies of blood loss. His body is buried, but he revives just as Buffy and Merriek go to the cemetery (the latter nothing his death wound was in the neck). Buffy manages to stake him in the scuffle. | Random vampire (offscreen), Buffy | No | |
| Female Graveyard Vampire | Bitten and fed on by a random vampire offscreen, dies of blood loss. Her body is buried, but she revives just as Buffy and Merriek go to the cemetery. After a scuffle, Buffy manages to stake her | Random vampire (offscreen), Buffy | No | |
| Grueller | Confronted by Amilyn who proceeds to bite and feed on him offscreen, he dies of blood loss and is turned into a vampire. Showing up at a homecoming game in his turned state. Buffy confronts him, but manages to get the drop on her until he's staked from behind by Pike. | Amilyn, Pike. | No | |
| Merriek | Impaled by Lothos with a knife | Lothos | Yes | |
| Amilyn | Staked by Buffy when Lothos refuses to help him. Though it takes awhile for him to die. | Buffy | Yes | |
| Lothos | Impaled by Buffy after a duel | Buffy | Yes |
Cast[]
- Kristy Swanson as Buffy Summers
- Donald Sutherland as Merrick Jamison-Smythe
- Paul Reubens as Amilyn/Lefty
- Rutger Hauer as Lothos
- Luke Perry as Oliver Pike
- Hilary Swank as Kimberly Hannah
- David Arquette as Benny Jacks
- Stephen Root as Gary Murray
- Paris Vaughan as Nicole "Nicki"
- Natasha Gregson Wagner as Cassandra
- Tom Jane as Zeph
- Candy Clark as Buffy's Mom
