Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Buffy Summers is a cheerleader at Hemery High School in Los Angeles. Her main concerns are shopping and spending time with her rich, snooty friends and her jock boyfriend, Jeffrey. While at the mall one day, she is approached by a man who calls himself Merrick. He informs her that she is the Slayer, or "Chosen One", destined to kill vampires and his duty as her "Watcher" is to guide and train her. Buffy, thinking he is a crazy homeless man, rebuffs him. Merrick later convinces Buffy of her birth-right by vividly describing a recurring dream of hers and taking her to stake two new vampires in a graveyard. She realizes that her natural agility, flexibility, strength, and heightened senses are in fact signs that she possesses the abilities of a Slayer. While he stands by his duty as "Watcher", Buffy repeatedly tries Merrick's patience with her indifference to slaying and sharp-tongued remarks. Merrick informs Buffy that her duty is to slay the elder vampire Lothos, who is plotting to rebuild his former brood with the aid of his loyal acolyte, Amilyn. Meanwhile, struggling mechanic Pike and his friend Benny are out drinking when they are attacked by Amilyn. Benny is turned, but Pike is saved by Merrick. After a run-in with the now vampiric Benny, Pike decides to leave town. He runs into Amilyn and his gang of vampires, and Buffy and Merrick rescue him from being turned. After this encounter, Pike insists on helping Buffy and they become friends despite a previous dislike of each other. Buffy discovers during a basketball game that one of Jeffrey's teammates, Grueller, is a vampire. Pike helps her stake him, but Lothos discovers Buffy's true nature. He arrives with Amilyn and places her in a hypnotic trance. Merrick, despite having vowed not to intervene in Buffy's work, attacks Lothos only to be fatally wounded; in a sign of respect, the vampire departs immediately. As Merrick dies in Buffy's arms, he tells her to wait for "the silence". At school, Buffy attempts to explain things to her friends, but they refuse to listen, being more concerned with an upcoming school dance. Buffy tries to reason with them but realizes they are too immature and selfish to understand the consequences of a vampire infestation. Blaming herself for Merrick's death, Buffy falls into despair and goes dress shopping, before angrily telling Pike that she is in over her head trying to be the Slayer. A frustrated Pike goes home and starts carving stakes. At the senior dance, Buffy is dismayed to find Jeffrey has dumped her (via a message on her answering machine) and is instead at the dance with her friend Jenny. While she grieves, Pike arrives and asks Buffy to dance, and they enjoy a romantic moment. Lothos, having traced Buffy with Benny's help, commands his brood to attack. Pike organizes the students to fight back, resulting in all of the vampires being slain; when Benny confronts him, Pike scars him with a flask filled with holy water before electrocuting him to death. Buffy confronts Amilyn and Lothos in the school's basement. Lothos refuses to help Amilyn, who is easily overpowered and staked, but then puts Buffy back into a trance before preparing to turn her. Remembering Merrick's final words, Buffy snaps out of the trance and tricks Lothos into touching a cross; when it catches fire, she uses her hairspray to set him aflame. Lothos brushes off the flames and pursues her back to the gym; following a brief duel, Buffy stakes him with a broken chair leg then finds her friend Pike. As Buffy and Pike drive off on his motorbike, a news crew interviews the survivors of the attack.

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