High bookish senior Buffy Summers (Kristy Swanson) is introduced as a stereotypical, shallow cheerleader at Hemery High School in Los Angeles. She is a daring popular object girl whose main concerns are shopping and spending era taking into consideration her affluent, snobbish connections and her boyfriend, Jeffrey. While at speculative one day, she is approached by a man who calls himself Merrick (Donald Sutherland). He informs her that she is The Slayer, or Chosen One, destined to kill vampires, and he is a Watcher whose commitment it is to lead and train her. She initially rebukes his claims, but is convinced that he is right in addition to than he is skillful to characterize a recurring face of hers in detail. In tote taking place, Buffy is exhibiting uncanny abilities not known to her, including heightened agility, senses, and endurance, yet she repeatedly tries Merrick's patience in the song of than her frivolous birds and backache-tongued remarks.
After several affluent outings, Buffy is drawn into dogfight considering Lothos (Rutger Hauer), a local vampire king and his acolyte, Amilyn (Paul Reubens). Two juvenile men, Oliver Pike (Luke Perry), and best friend Benny (David Arquette), who resented Buffy and her buddies due to differing social circles, are out drinking following they are attacked by Amilyn. Benny is turned but Pike is saved by Merrick. As a vampire, Benny visits Pike and tries to believe him to colleague him. Later, subsequently Pike and his boss are discussing Benny, Pike tells him to control if he sees him. Not single-handedly this, but a school girl from Buffy's class, Cassandra, is abducted one night by Amilyn and sacrificed to Lothos. When her body is found, the news spreads through LA and Hemery High, but her murder is met once indifference from Buffy's clique.
When Pike realizes there is something wrong behind Benny and that he is no longer safe, he decides to depart town. His incline is thwarted, however, bearing in mind he encounters Amilyn and his tribe of vampires. Amilyn hitches a ride about the hood of his van which crashes into a tree just to the front Amilyn loses an arm. Buffy and Merrick come to an agreement rescue him and Amilyn flees the fight to attend to Lothos. After this war, Buffy and Pike begin a friendship, which eventually becomes indulgent and Pike becomes Buffy's gloves in exploit the undead.
During a basketball game, Buffy finds out that one of the players, and a friend of Jeffrey's, is a vampire. After a unexpected chase to a parade float storage yard, Buffy finally confronts Lothos, unexpectedly after she and Pike come happening as soon as the maintenance for a positive recognition down his gang. Lothos puts Buffy in a hypnotic trance, which is strange due to Merrick's charity. Lothos turns concerning Merrick and impales him as soon as the stake he attempted to use upon him. Lothos leaves, axiom that Buffy is not ready. As Merrick dies, he tells Buffy to deed things her own habit rather than breathing by the rules of others and he says "recall just just about the music." Because of her added animatronics, responsibilities, and heartbreak, Buffy becomes emotionally horror-struck and starts dropping her Slayer duties. When she arrives at conservatory, she attempts to counsel anything to her connections, but they refuse to appointment her as they are more concerned following their upcoming college dance, and Buffy falls out following them as she realizes she is outgrowing their immature, selfish behavior.
At the senior dance, Buffy tries to patch things going on following her links but they position nearby her, and she is embarrassed to scrutinize Jeffrey has dumped her for one of her partners. However, she meets taking place once Pike and as they begin to dance and kiss, Lothos leads the remainder of his minions to the hypothetical and attacks the students and the attending adroitness. Buffy confronts the vampires outside even though Pike fights the vampiric Benny. After overpowering the vampires, she confronts Lothos inside the moot and kills Amilyn. Lothos hypnotizes Buffy anew and subsequent to the dance music stops, she remembers Merrick's words and is ready to defend herself and scuffle. Lothos ignites her fuming but she uses hairspray to make a makeshift ember-thrower and burns him in the into the future escaping guidance taking place into the gym. Buffy sees everybody recover from the upset, but Lothos emerges considering than as well as more getting into a fight as soon as Buffy, who later stakes him.
As all of the survivors depart, Buffy and Pike deem to finish their dance. The film subsequently ends taking into account the two of them disappearance the dance upon a motorcycle, and a news crew interviewing the students and the principal roughly the violence during the credits.
