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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
Its high-school cliques, deadpan teen banter, and escalating creature paranoia deliver the same bright, playful horror energy as Buffy, while letting its unlikely students become capable heroes.
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Why this pick
A sharply funny supernatural horror about teenage identity and friendship, with a glossy school-world surface, vicious one-liners, and a female-centered monster story.
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Why this pick
A charismatic vampire invades an ordinary teen neighborhood in this witty, energetic blend of scares, romance, and horror-movie self-awareness.
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Why this pick
Its confident, quippy heroine and playful collision of high-school comedy with slasher danger make for a modern, light-footed supernatural-adjacent companion.
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Why this pick
A working-class young woman must survive a coven in this gleefully heightened, female-led horror comedy, full of campy villains and scrappy resistance.
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01 / THE STORY
High school senior Buffy Summers (Kristy Swanson) attends Hemery High School in Los Angeles, California; her main concerns are shopping and spending time with her rich, snooty friends and her boyfriend, Jeffrey (Randall Batinkoff). While at school one day, she is approached by a man who calls himself Minor characters of Buffy the Vampire Slayer#Merrick (Donald Sutherland). He informs her that she is Slayer (Buffyverse), or Chosen One, destined to kill vampires, and he is a Watcher (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) whose duty it is to guide and train her. She initially rejects his claim but is convinced that he's right when he's able to describe a recurring dream of hers in detail. In addition, Buffy is exhibiting uncanny abilities not known to her, including heightened agility, senses, and endurance, yet she repeatedly tries Merrick's patience with her frivolous nature, indifference to slaying, and sharp-tongued remarks.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Buffy Summers
Oliver Pike
Merrick Jamison-Smythe
Lothos
Amilyn
Kimberly Hannah
Nicole
Jennifer
