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Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992) More at IMDb Pro »

• Ben Affleck appears in one scene as a basketball player.
  
  
• Seth Green, the only person in the movie to be in the spin-off show, was cut from the movie, but still appears on the video cover
  
  
• Buffy's last name is never mentioned in the movie. Not until the release of the series was she referred to as Buffy Summers.
  
  

• In the original version of the script, Merrick committed suicide to escape being turned into a vampire by Lothos, who wanted to know the Slayer's identity so he could dispatch with her.
  
  
• The original script by Joss Whedon was heavily re-written to make the film "lighter". In the original script, Buffy burns down the school gym that the dance is being held in, in an effort to destroy the vampires. In the television series ("Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (1997)) this fact is referred to several times, as the series is seen as a spin-off of the original, unproduced screenplay rather than this film.
  
  
• Alyssa Milano was originally set to play Buffy.
  
  
• Joss Whedon was so frustrated by how much of his vision was being mishandled and how much of it was being rewritten that he eventually left the set during production and never came back.
  
  
• This was Hilary Swank's first film.
  
  

• SPOILER: Paul Reubens completely improvised his death scene.
  
  

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