Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Buffy (Kristy Swanson) is a popular cheerleader on the football team at Hemery High School in Los Angeles when she is approached by a man named Merrick Jamison-Smythe (Donald Sutherland), who tells her she is the Slayer, a chosen young woman with special abilities destined to fight vampires. She admits she has had dreams about past Slayers and eventually accepts what she is. Together with Pike (Luke Perry), a loser who becomes the "damsel in distress," repeatedly rescued by Buffy and toward whom she feels a certain sexual attraction. After a brief training period, she clashes with a local Vampire King named Lothos (Rutger Hauer), who has murdered many past Slayers and who, shortly after, kills Merrick.