"In every generation there is a chosen one... she alone will stand against the vampires, the demons and the forces of darkness. She is the slayer." Buffy Summers knows this tale by heart, and no matter how hard she tries to be just a "normal girl", she can not escape from her destiny... Thankfully, she is not alone in her quest to save the world, as she has the help of her friends, the hilarious (and surprisingly quite effective) evil-fighting team called "The Scooby Gang". Together, Buffy & co. will slay their demons, survive one apocalypse after another, attend high school and college... and above all, understand that growing up can truly be Hell sometimes... literally.
Season one exemplifies the "high school is hell" concept. Buffy Summers has just moved to Sunnydale after burning down her old school's gym, and hopes to escape her Slayer duties. Her plans are complicated by Rupert Giles, her new Watcher, who reminds her of the inescapable presence of evil. Sunnydale High is built atop a Hellmouth, a portal to demon dimensions that attracts supernatural phenomena to the area. Buffy befriends two schoolmates, Xander Harris and Willow Rosenberg, who help her fight evil throughout the series, but they must first preventThe Master, an ancient and especially threatening vampire, from opening the Hellmouth and taking over Sunnydale.
Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Sarah Michelle Gellar , also Known as Buffy ( Main chracter of the show ) .She is an American actress and producer. She is known as a young girl in the series, destined to slay vampires, demons and other infernal creatures,who deals with her life fighting evil, with the help of her friends.
Alyson Hannigan also known as Willow befriends new student Buffy Summers and when it is learned that Buffy is a vampire slayer, Willow becomes part of gang -- affectionately dubbed the "Scooby Gang"-- to help combat vampires and other other demons alongside Buffy, Xander,and Buffy's "Watcher," school librarian Rupert Giles, and her arch-nemesis, bitchy cheerleader Cordelia Chase.
David Boreanaz also known as Angel in the series, is a vampire who is over 200 years old.
Originally from Ireland, after travelling the world he ended up in Sunnydale, location of the Hellmouth, where all manner of demonic and bestial things are drawn.
He meets Buffy Summers shortly after she arrives at school, appearing and disappearing to her seemingly out of thin air at crucial points. At first he seems nothing more than a mysterious and helpful friend but Buffy soon learns Angel is a vampire, her sworn enemy.
A great series that used to be popular back in my childhood days, the practical effects were always so realistic, and looking now at the makeup department, there were a lot of people participating. Today's films are more or less a mixture of digital and pracitcal, but more digital based. The good thing about Buffy was, some were subtle makeup's whereas others were full on face prosthetics, but it made the characters seem more real for the purpose. It is a great point of research to demonstrate that practical does appear more real when it's physically stuck to the models face and moving with their own rather then replacing that with "made up" digital effects.
Buffy The Vampire Slayer used to be one of the shows I used to watch every week that it was on, without a doubt I used to enjoy the thrill of the fight scenes and how Buffy used to tackle these demons and vampires alongside the storyline.
In 2014, I find myself looking back on this movie and finding it a bit overated, but for the effects of its time of when it was first released in 1997 . I must of been around the age of 8/9 when I first watched the series when they started playing it on television again.
Despite looking back on the movie today, I still think it was a great source of research to use within my project, not only to look at recent films with practical effects in, but to also look at films that were made in the past and still had an influence to my childhood and how I became so intrigued with the excitement of the battles.
The series demonstrates a perfect example of the transformation stages of the Character of Spike ( James Masters ) a vampire, an old companion of Angelus and one of Buffy's major enemies in early seasons, although they later become allies and lovers.
James Marsters also known as Spike,. Spike is a vampire of British origin who was "sired" in 1880 making him over 100 years old. He became close in his youthful, destructive vampire days with Buffy's friend Angel, when he was still known as Angelus.
The Master
The Master is a fictional character on the action-horror/fantasy television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. He is a centuries-old vampire portrayed by Mark Metcalf, determined to open the portal to hell below Sunnydale High School in the fictional town of Sunnydale where the main character Buffy Summers lives.
He is one of the characters I remember seeing as a child, and was always freaked out by his practical makeup, looking back on it now , it doesn't seem all that popular anymore like it used to be, but in terms of the practical, it still beats CGI anyday.