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Released
1992 · FILM

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

A sunny California cheerleader discovers she's the prophesied slayer of vampires and must embrace her destiny to save her town from the forces of darkness.

“She knows a sucker when she sees one.”

Directed by
Fran Rubel Kuzui
Written by
Joss Whedon
Rated
MPA · PG-13
Runtime
85 min
ActionComedyFantasy
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

Buffy Summers is a blonde, energetic high school cheerleader. Her life takes an unexpected turn when a mysterious man tells her she is the reincarnation of a powerful warrior destined to battle the forces of darkness.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 61+ credited

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Jill SavittShot by James HaymanScored by Carter BurwellDesigned by Lawrence Miller

Box Office

1992 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 2.4× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$16.6M

Budget$7.0M
Worldwide gross$16.6M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $4.5M — 27% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $7.2M — 43% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,959 theaters

Also known as

  • Buffy, der Vampirkillerde
  • Buffy, tueuse de vampiresfr
  • Buffy - L'Ammazza Vampiriit

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