A lot of people tend to
forget that Buffy The Vampire Slayer was actually a film before it became a
series. It was originally a comedy/action filmed starring Kristy Swanson,
Donald Sutherland, Paul Reubens and even had Hilary Swank as well as David
Arquette; many others. What others tend to really forget that the movie and the
show are both different in the aspects of genre. In the movie Buffy was a
teenage cheerleader the typical clichéd one, who wanted to have the typical life,
but was interrupted by Merrick the watcher (Sutherland) kept finding her and
telling her about her fate as a vampire slayer. Lothos wanted her for other
reasons. Merrick taught her how to be a vampire slayer, and she kept having
these pains (mistaken for cramps) but it was also to signal a vampire was near.
Plus the two differences that the tv series was at a different place called
Sunnydale High, while the movie was Hemery High School. Now the tv series did
have some comedy but it was mostly horror. If I’m not mistaken Buffy in the
show wasn’t a cheerleader there and then also she had actual friends that were
known as the Scooby Gang. In the film, Buffy had friends but they were
backstabbers, hell one of them slept with her boyfriend, and she later on fell
for Oliver Pike, ironically was the damsel in distress. It’s a funny film, I
was shocked to see Paul Reubens as a vampire, I guess after seeing him as
Pee-Wee Herman, it startled me. The rest I wasn’t too shocked, Sutherland was
on Animal House, and the Kristy Swanson made appearances on John Hughes’ films
the 80’s films like Pretty in Pink (as the Duckette) and Ferris Bueller’s Day
Off (as Simone Adamley) and then on another film called Hot Shots! It was a
parody film. That was in 1991 (non John Hughes). Buffy the Vampire Slayer came
out in 1992. While the show came out in 1997 and ended in 2003, Sarah Michelle
Gellar was the leading role as Buffy in the show. I watched bits of it when I
was younger, at the time I didn’t even know they had a movie about it, I mean
they still used the main idea, the main character destine to kill vampires. I
like the movie; it was funny. I like the fact even though it was a comedy it does bring out factual morals about life, like people want to be popular, there's backstabbing, followers, etc.
