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Trivia about Buffy the Vampire Slayer (film) includes:

• Acting for Two: In the flashback, the medieval Slayer and her Watcher are played by the same actors as Buffy and Merrick. (There's actually an in-story justification for this: these two really are Buffy and Merrick, in a dream Buffy is having about one of her past lives.)
• Dawson Casting: 23-year-old (actually 22 at the time of filming) Kristy Swanson playing high school senior Buffy.
• Hey, It's That Guy!:
  • Pee Wee is a vampire?
  • Be on the lookout for a certain opportunistic Wayne Enterprises employee as the Big Bad, as well.
  • Isn't that Gordie from Ready to Rumble?
  • Maria's daughter is a long way from Hell's Kitchen....
  • And, of course, Simone Adamley has "no problem whatsoever" playing the title role.
  • Look close, and you might see Doug McCray as an uncredited basketball player.
  • Averted in the case of Seth Green. He appeared in a scene that was left on the cutting room floor. If it had made it into the film, he would have been the only actor to appear in both the film and the series.
    • According to Word of God (possibly) you can still see him in the finished movie. Problem is, he appears on screen for literally two seconds (as one of the gang of vampires fighting with Buffy outside the gym toward the end).
    • And he is visible on the back cover of the DVD, (and the earlier video tape release) as a vamp wearing glasses.
• Old Shame: This is not something that Joss is proud of.
  • There's a reason he stormed off the set and never came back, then made the movie non-canon and his original script canon.
• One-Scene Wonder: Ben Affleck (in only his second film role) as a particularly squeamish basketball player.
• Soundtrack Dissonance: The soundtrack for Buffy (which, typical of a 1990s Hollywood feature film, is crammed to bursting with a mix of standards and disposable pop hits) contains a great many songs that are decidedly out of place in a horror film, even a spoof one. Good examples are C+C Music Factory's rousing "Keep It Coming", which officially kicks off the film, and a calypso-like cover of "Ain't Gonna Eat Out My Heart Anymore", which, as sung by Christina Amphlett of the Divinyls, is reimagined as a feminist anthem, as noted above. At one point, Buffy herself briefly sings a Suspiciously Similar Song version of "Feelings"!
• Throw It In: Amilyn's ludicrously protracted and over-the-top death, ad-libbed by Paul Reubens.
• Unintentional Period Piece: Averted much of the time, although the first ten minutes now come off as something of a "Mister Sandman" Sequence.

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