Thinking of Buffy, either the dog of your neighbour comes to mind or the blonde vampire slayer from Sunnydale that saved the world from vampires and other monsters on a weekly basis on TV for the last seven years. If it's the latter you also think of Sarah Michelle Gellar, the petite (false) blonde brought the character to lif,e so that a whole generation could grow up and survive high school together with Buffy and her friends. Now, after seven action-filled years Buffy lays down her stake - the show saw its last episode in April. Reason enough for me to go back to the roots. Not the roots where Sarah Michelle Gellar still had hips and Alyson Hannigan sported rather long hair. No, I mean the real roots, because only fanatic Buffy fans or geeks that still love the movie trash of the early 90ies know that there's another Buffy out there. Blonde as well, yet more shallow and bitchier Kristy Swanson brought Buffy the Vampire Slayer to life on the silver screen back in 1992.

Buffy (Kristy Swanson) goes to Hemery High in LA. She's one of the popular crowd - a cheerleader, addicted to shopping and football playing boys. Her life consists of shopping, gossiping and polishing her nails. So, we already suspect it: Buffy leads a usual and not very charming life in the LA of 1992. Until the queer Merrick (Donald Sutherland) appears at her school and tries to persuade her that she's the chosen one - the only who can stop the vampires. Okay, Buffy's blonde, but she's not totally stupid. If an old guy comes along telling you some story about bloodsucking fiends, you don't call him trustful.

However, Buffy has to learn the hard way, that Merrick is right. At the local cemetery she has her first encounter of the undead kind. Finally accepting (somewhat) what Merrick told her, she starts to train for her new "job" as the Slayer. She gets help form Pike (Luke Perry), whose best friend had been sucked dry by the vamps.

More and more she is alienated from her friends and her former life. Her friends more and more ignore her, because she prefers to take her leave when she should prepare the prom dance. Her parents are never at home. And then there are these strange dreams in which the vampire Lotus (Rutger Hauer) appears to her, who came to LA only to kill the Slayer.

Lotus plans the final fight for the night of the prom (what a coincidence). With a group of vampires he attacks the gym, but Buffy and Pike take up the fight...