Buffy the Vampire Slayer
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1997 · Comedy / Drama / Sci-Fi

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

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An absolute cinematic disaster.

Into every generation a slayer is born: one girl in all the world, a chosen one. She alone will wield the strength and skill to fight the vampires, demons, and the forces of darkness; to stop the spread of their evil and the swell of their number. She is the Slayer.

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1997
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Comedy / Drama / Sci-Fi
PLOT SUMMARY

Into every generation a slayer is born: one girl in all the world, a chosen one. She alone will wield the strength and skill to fight the vampires, demons, and the forces of darkness; to stop the spread of their evil and the swell of their number. She is the Slayer.

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@AISLE_GHOUL2025-12-21 22:00 UTC

Buffy the Vampire Slayer put every joke in the trailer and then dared us to sit through the rest.

@POPCORN_CRITIC2025-12-11 12:00 UTC

If exposition were a contact sport, Buffy the Vampire Slayer would be banned for life.

@CREDITS_FLEE2025-12-06 02:00 UTC

Buffy the Vampire Slayer has the emotional range of a fridge magnet.

@RATIO_RAT2025-12-18 03:00 UTC

Watched Buffy the Vampire Slayer so you don't have to. You're welcome.

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r/TrueFilm · u/PopcornPhilosopher🔥 1.8k points

Why does no one talk about how mid the writing in Buffy the Vampire Slayer actually is?

Director clearly thought Buffy the Vampire Slayer was deeper than it is. There's a difference between ambiguous and unfinished, and this leans hard into the second.

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r/flicks · u/CinephileCynic🔥 2.5k points

[Spoilers] Can we discuss that absolutely baffling ending in Buffy the Vampire Slayer?

Rewatched Buffy the Vampire Slayer last night and noticed even more plot holes than the first time. The motivations don't track at all once you stop and think about act two.

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r/criticalkino · u/ContinuityKaren🔥 2.4k points

The cinematography in Buffy the Vampire Slayer is doing all the heavy lifting and it shows

Look, I wanted to love Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The trailer had me hyped. But sitting through the second hour felt like a homework assignment. The dialogue is exposition stacked on exposition and the score keeps telling me how to feel.

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r/TrueFilm · u/PracticalFX_Stan🔥 1.7k points

[Serious Discussion] Is anyone else completely checked out by the pacing in Buffy the Vampire Slayer?

Just got out of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and I'm convinced critics are being paid in residuals. Two genuinely good scenes do not make a film. Convince me otherwise.

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