Buffy the Vampire Slayer (film)
Overview
Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a 1992 American action
Action film
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/comedy
Comedy film
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/horror film
Horror film
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 about a Valley girl
Valley girl
Valley Girl is a stereotype leveled at a socio-economic and ethnic class of American women who can be described as colloquial English-speaking and materialistic...

 cheerleader
Cheerleading
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 named Buffy
Buffy Summers
Buffy Summers is a fictional character from Joss Whedon's Buffy the Vampire Slayer franchise. She first appeared in the 1992 film Buffy the Vampire Slayer before going on to appear in the television series and subsequent comic book of the same name...

 (Kristy Swanson
Kristy Swanson
Kristen Nöel "Kristy" Swanson is an American actress best known for playing Buffy in the 1992 film Buffy the Vampire Slayer, she also played Catherine "Cathy" Dollanganger in the movie version of the V.C...

) who learns that it is her fate to hunt vampires. The original script for the film was written by Joss Whedon
Joss Whedon
Joseph Hill "Joss" Whedon is an American screenwriter, executive producer, director, comic book writer, occasional composer and actor, founder of Mutant Enemy Productions and co-creator of Bellwether Pictures...

, who later created the darker and more acclaimed TV series of the same name starring Sarah Michelle Gellar
Sarah Michelle Gellar
Sarah Michelle Prinze , known professionally by her birth name of Sarah Michelle Gellar , is an American actress, singer and executive producer...

 as Buffy. It was a moderate success at the box office and received mixed reviews from critics..
Buffy Summers
Buffy Summers
Buffy Summers is a fictional character from Joss Whedon's Buffy the Vampire Slayer franchise. She first appeared in the 1992 film Buffy the Vampire Slayer before going on to appear in the television series and subsequent comic book of the same name...

 (Kristy Swanson
Kristy Swanson
Kristen Nöel "Kristy" Swanson is an American actress best known for playing Buffy in the 1992 film Buffy the Vampire Slayer, she also played Catherine "Cathy" Dollanganger in the movie version of the V.C...

) is a stereotypical
Stereotype
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 cheerleader
Cheerleading
Cheerleading is a physical activity, sometimes a competitive sport, based on organized routines, usually ranging from one to three minutes, which contain the components of tumbling, dance, jumps, cheers, and stunting to direct spectators of events to cheer on sports teams at games or to participate...

 at Hemery High School in Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California
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Quotations

"Mmm. Wouldn't you guys love me in this?" [holding up a new jacket in front of her]

"'Pike' isn't a name. It's a fish."

"Does Elvis talk to you?"

"What are you doing here? This is a naked place!" [when Merrick approaches her in the girls' locker room]

"All I wanna do is graduate from high school, move to Europe, marry Christian Slater, and die. Now, that may not sound too exciting to a stone-head like you, but I think it's swell. And then you come along and, and tell me I'm a member of the hairy mole club so you can throw things at me? I don't THINK so!"

Collary: All that's missing is marrying Christian Slater...

"Do you got any gum?" [during a graveyard stakeout]

"I just think it sounds cool, you know? Buyer, buying, to buy..." [about her future career as a 'Buyer']

"Great. My secret weapon is PMS."

"Does the word 'duh' mean anything to you?"

"Sorry about your guitar." [after staking a vampire with a piece of Pike's guitar]

 
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