Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel Viewer's Guide
This is a viewer's guide to the Joss Whedon TV series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer (BtVS) and Angel. Angel started as a spinoff of BtVS during Season 4 of Buffy. Since they aired on the same network, many of the seasons had cross-over episodes that added to the story lines of each series.
I recommend watching both series as they were intended, including crossover episodes. This means that during BtVS Season 4, you'll need to watch Angel Season 1. Here you will find a guide for viewing the crossover episodes to ensure minimal DVD swapping while viewing both series in the right order.
Buffy Season 4 / Angel Season 1
Crossover Viewing Guide for Buffy 4 and Angel 1
Note: Simply alternating episodes won't quite work for this season (though it gets close).
Buffy -- The Freshman (401)
Angel -- City of (101)
Angel -- Lonely Heart (102)
Buffy -- Living Conditions (402)
Buffy -- The Harsh Light of Day (403)
Angel -- In the Dark (103)
Angel -- I fall to pieces (104)
Buffy -- Fear,Itself (404)
Buffy -- Beer Bad (405)
Buffy -- Wild at Heart (406)
Buffy -- The Initiative (407)
Angel -- RM W/A VU (105)
Angel -- Sense and Sensitivity (106)
Angel -- The Bachelor Party (107)
Buffy -- Pangs (408)
Angel -- I will Remember you (108)
Buffy -- Something Blue (409)
Buffy -- Hush (410)
Buffy -- Doomed (411)
Angel -- Hero (109)
Angel -- Parting Gifts (110)
Angel -- Somnamulist (111)
Buffy -- A new Man (412)
Angel -- Expecting (112)
Angel -- She (113)
Buffy -- The I in Team (413)
Buffy -- Goodbye Iowa (414)
Angel -- I've Got you under my Skin (114)
Angel -- The Prodigal (115)
Buffy -- This year's Girl (415)
Buffy -- Who are you (416)
Buffy -- Superstar (417)
Angel -- The Ring (116)
Angel -- Eternity (117)
Buffy -- Where the Wild Things Are (418)
Buffy -- New Moon Rising (419)
Angel -- Five by Five (118)
Angel -- Sanctuary (119)
Buffy -- The Yoko Factor (420)
Buffy -- Primeval (421)
Buffy -- Restless (422)
Angel -- War Zone (120)
Angel -- Blind Date (121)
Angel -- To Shanshu in LA (122)
Buffy Season 5 / Angel Season 2
Crossover Viewing Guide for Buffy 5 and Angel 2
There is some tricky ordering, so be careful or you may get the storyline out of order.
Buffy -- Buffy vs. Dracula (501)
Buffy -- Real Me (502)
Buffy -- The Replacement (503)
Buffy -- Out of My Mind (504)
Angel -- Judgment (201)
Angel -- Are You Now or Have You Ever Been (202)
Angel -- First Impressions (203)
Angel -- Untouched (204)
Buffy -- No Place Like Home (505)
Buffy -- Family (506)
Angel -- Dear Boy (205)
Angel -- Guise Will Be Guise (206)
Buffy -- Fool For Love (507)
Angel -- Darla (207)
Buffy -- Shadow (508)
Angel -- The Shroud of Rahmon (208)
Buffy -- Listening to Fear (509)
Buffy -- Into the Woods (510)
Buffy -- Triangle (511)
Angel -- The Trial (209)
Angel -- Reunion (210)
Angel -- Redefinition (211)
Buffy -- Checkpoint (512)
Buffy -- Blood Ties (513)
Buffy -- Crush (514)
Buffy -- I Was Made to Love You (515)
Angel -- Blood Money (212)
Angel -- Happy Anniversary (213)
Angel -- The Thin Dead Line (214)
Angel -- Reprise (215)
Angel -- Epiphany (216)
Buffy -- The Body (516)
Buffy -- Forever (517)
Angel -- Disharmony (217)
Angel -- Dead End (218)
Buffy -- Intervention (518)
Buffy -- Tough Love (519)
Buffy -- Spiral (520)
Buffy -- The Weight of the World (521)
Buffy -- The Gift (522)
Angel -- Belonging (219)
Angel -- Over the Rainbow (220)
Angel -- Through the Looking Glass (221)
Angel -- There's No Place Like Plrtz Glrb (222)
Buffy Season 6 / Angel Season 3
Crossover viewing guide for Buffy Season 6 / Angel Season 3
Buffy Season 6 and Angel Season 3 have no direct crossovers, but you should watch the first disc of Buffy before starting Angel for proper ordering. Here is the complete list:
Buffy -- Bargaining (Part 1) (601)
Buffy -- Bargaining (Part 2)(602)
Buffy -- After Life (603)
Buffy -- Flooded (604)
Angel -- Heartthrob (301)
Angel -- That Old Gang of Mine (302)
Angel -- That Vision Thing (303)
Angel -- Carpe Noctem (304)
Buffy -- Life Serial (605)
Buffy -- All The Way (606)
Buffy -- Once More, With Feeling (607)
Buffy -- Tabula Rasa (608)
Angel -- Fredless (305)
Angel -- Billy (306)
Angel -- Offspring (307)
Angel -- Quickening (308)
Buffy -- Smashed (609)
Buffy -- Wrecked (610)
Buffy -- Gone (611)
Angel -- Lullaby (309)
Angel -- Dad (310)
Angel -- Birthday (311)
Buffy -- Doublemeat Palace (612)
Buffy -- Dead Things (613)
Buffy -- Older and Far Away (614)
Buffy -- As You Were (615)
Angel -- Provider (312)
Angel -- Waiting in the Wings (313)
Angel -- Couplet (314)
Angel -- Loyalty (315)
Buffy -- Hell's Bells (616)
Buffy -- Normal Again (617)
Buffy -- Entropy (618)
Buffy -- Seeing Red (619)
Angel -- Sleep Tight (316)
Angel -- Forgiving (317)
Angel -- Double or Nothing (318)
Angel -- The Price (319)
Buffy -- Villains (620)
Buffy -- Two to Go (621)
Buffy -- Grave (622)
Angel -- A New World (320)
Angel -- Benediction (321)
Angel -- Tomorrow (322)
Buffy Season 7 / Angel Season 4
Crossover episodes for Buffy Season 7 / Angel Season 4
This is the last season when both shows were on the air. Unlike past episodes, some Angel episodes precede Buffy episodes, so the order is important for this season.
Buffy -- Lessons (701)
Buffy -- Beneath You (702)
Buffy -- Same Time, Same Place (703)
Buffy -- Help (704)
Angel -- Deep Down (401)
Angel -- Ground State (402)
Angel -- The House Always Wins (403)
Angel -- Slouching Toward Bethlehem (404)
Buffy -- Selfless (705)
Buffy -- Him (706)
Buffy -- Conversations with Dead People (707)
Buffy -- Sleeper (708)
Angel -- Supersymmetry (405)
Angel -- Spin the Bottle (406)
Angel -- Apocalypse, Nowish (407)
Angel -- Habeas Corpses (408)
Buffy -- Never Leave Me (709)
Buffy -- Bring On The Night (710)
Buffy -- Showtime (711)
Angel -- Long Day's Journey (409)
Angel -- Awakening (410)
Angel -- Soulless (411)
Buffy -- Potential (712)
Buffy -- The Killer In Me (713)
Buffy -- First Date (714)
Buffy -- Get It Done (715)
Angel -- Calvary (412)
Angel -- Salvage (413)
Angel -- Release (414)
Buffy -- Storyteller (716)
Buffy -- Lies My Parents Told Me (717)
Angel -- Orpheus (415)
Buffy -- Dirty Girls (718)
Buffy -- Empty Places (719)
Angel -- Players (416)
Angel -- Inside Out (417)
Angel -- Shiny Happy People (418)
Angel -- The Magic Bullet (419)
Angel -- Sacrifice (420)
Angel -- Peace Out (421)
Angel -- Home (422)
Buffy -- Touched (720)
Buffy -- End of Days (721)
Buffy -- Chosen (722)
A Great List of 10 Vampire Movies
This lens is dedicated to a
top 10 vampire movies list, and focuses on the variety of extremely different movies that all fall under the basic genre of "vampire films." This is a marathon meant to show the wide variety and differing approaches to vampires in cinema and hopefully among everything else going on you can find an excellent
group of vampire movies to watch.
"30 Days of Night" Movie Review
The most recent big budget vampire movie, based on the graphic novel
At least every few years another vampire film comes out with a major budget, hoping to catch the best of the traditional seductive horror of a vampire film while putting a new spin or twist on it.
30 Days of Night is based on the graphic novel by Steve Niles, who also had some input on writing the script for the movie version.
This movie takes place in Barrow, Alaska, the northernmost city in the world, which undergoes 30 days of complete darkness every year (it's actually more in real life, but for the movie's sake 30 days works). Marlow is the leader of a group of vampires, and speaks in an ancient language, while the other vampires only screech loudly, often like real bats, before attacking.
What is very interesting about this movie is that they don't give a darn about the concept of the "sexy" or "sensual" vampire. These vampires are brutish predators, smart and evil, and very unattractive, all the way through. They're in Barrow for a feeding frenzy, and that's exactly what they do while a small group of survivors try to hide and wait it out, fighting
back when necessary.
This film isn't great, but it isn't bad, either. It has many of the same flaws that many horror movies have, including being loaded with clichés, the really repetitive "it gets quiet then a vampire bursts out of nowhere" scare, and really paper thin character development. But that being said, it is an entertaining film that shows the vampires as a pack of predators, making them very unique compared to other vampire films.
The opening scene of the all out vampire slaughter, shot from a birds-eye view as shotguns go off in vain self defense and blood spatters the snow, is stunning and an exceptional piece
of camera work that really gives a definitively unique feel to this film. The vampires are portrayed as a pack of instinctive killers, but despite the more animal version of vampires in this film, they're also very smart - making them even more terrifying.
This movie is definitely worth a rental. I would give it a strong C+. You're not blown away, but it is a fairly well put together movie that isn't going to disappoint.
List of Top Ten Vampire Movies, Part I
Five of the best vampire movies you can find
I'm a big fan of horror movies, and especially of a good vampire movie. While there are tons of cheap crap vampire movies out there, there are is also a wide array of great vampire movies that, best of all, vary greatly from one film to another. The trouble with making a top ten list for vampire movies is that some people like vampire comedies, others like the strange surreal vampire films, while others want blood and guts an the scariest movie they can find.
So for this list, my top ten vampire movie list is focusing on ten great, diverse vampire movies. This list is the top ten for variety among vampire movies. This list will show you the wide array of types of vampire movies.
Nosferatu: Eine Symphonie des Gravens (1922)This is the grandfather of all vampire movies, a movie that never should have been made. This film is a black and white silent picture that stars Max Schrek as the creepy Count Orlock. This film was an expressionist film that remains extremely popular today, but because of a weird way: half the people who still watch this film find Nosferatu extremely creepy and scary, while the other half find it campy and hilarious.
This is one of the earliest vampire films, and after it's release, Bram Stoker's widow sued the director, saying this was a blatant rip off of her late husband's novel: Dracula. The court found in her favor, and every negative of this film was supposed to have been destroyed, but pirate copies kept cropping up all over the place. Once the copyright to Dracula wore off (copyrights last 70 years after the author's death), the movie was re-released in DVD format and is now available on DVD. Whether this movie hits you as very creepy or hilarious, it's worth seeing.
John Carpenter's Vampires (1998)John Carpenter's Vampires is one of the better recent vampire movies that actually takes the effort to be a vampire movie, and not an action film disguised as a vampire movie. James Woods plays the role of the main protagonist, a vampire hunter who is obsessed with wiping out vampires with his team after he witnessed his parents murdered by vampires when he as a child.
He discovers that a group of vampires are searching for a powerful doom for mankind. The Vatican then secretly enlists a team of vampire-hunters, led by Jack Crow, to hunt down and destroy the vampires before they find a crucifix that would give them the power to walk in the day.
After destroying a nest of vampires, Valek, the vampire master, comes after Jack and his team, leading to a fast paced action based movie that still focuses mostly on vampires against the human vampire hunter. A great action paced film that is mostly action based, but definitely has its moments of out right terror.
Lost Boys (1987)This is a favorite among many vampire movie fans, and will almost always pop up on a top ten list of vampire films. This Joel Schumacher film is also pop culture famous because it featured the two Coreys at the height of their teenage heart throb popularity in the late eighties.
Don't let this scare you away, this is good for a vampire movie, and it is a very traditional story in a modern setting, mixing the two well without bastardizing either. A single mother and her two sons move to a small coastal California town. There are some mysterious deaths, as well as a pesky motorcycle gang. The younger brother makes friends with imaginative boys who claim to be vampire hunters. The older brother falls for a beautiful girl and then begins acting stranger and stranger while exhibiting all the classic signs of vampirism.
Wanting to save his brother, the younger one joins his friends the vampire hunters to search for the head vampire and to destroy it in order
to return his brother to normal. An excellent modern vampire tale that is a delight to vampire movie fans.
Interview with a Vampire (1994)Interview with a Vampire is based on the best selling novel by Anne Rice. This novel, and the movie that follows it rather closely. This is what you would consider the "high end" or "high art" type of vampire movie. Literary, and based on story and theme rather than general genre considerations.
Interview with a Vampire is about a plantation owner named Louis who lost his brother and his will to live, but a vampire named Lestat likes the man and offers him the chance to become a vampire. Louis accepts, but finds that he hates being a vampire and he refuses to take human life. The two of them end up turning a little girl into a vampire, and she becomes the reason for Louis to continue to live, as the two live together as family through the centuries that follow the 1700s.
The interview comes as a young journalist finds a man who tells him he is a vampire who is over 200 years old, and he tells his story of life as a vampire. The movie is like the novel, following the philosophy and reflections of this vampire who refuses to take human life. This is a very different, change of pace vampire film that will find its fans, and was critically acclaimed for good reason.
Dracula (1958)The 1958 version of the film Dracula was ground breaking in many ways, and is the first of eight movies in the "Hammer" series. Christopher Lee plays Dracula in nearly all of these films, and the "Hammer Series" of Dracula films remain classics among vampire fans. In this first film, the protagonist, Jonathan Harker, attacks Dracula at his castle (apparently somewhere in Germany). He fails, and Dracula travels to a nearby city, where he preys on the family of Harker's fiancée. The only one who may be able to protect them is Dr. Van Helsing, Harker's friend and fellow vampire hunter.
This movie was directed by Terence Fisher, and it is a British film that was released n the United States as "Horror of Dracula." While fairly tame by today's standard, this film was ground breaking for its combination of romance/sexuality, and what was an unprecedented amount of gore.
Nosferatu: Eine Symphonie des Gravens
The classic cult film re-released on DVD, it was supposed to be destroyed after the director lost a law suit to Bram Stoker's widow for plagirism, but somehow enough survived to allow a re-made copy onto DVD now that the copyright has expired.
Top Ten Vampire Movies, Part II
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)This film reintroduced Dracula to a modern Hollywood audience, and is one of the first vampire films to have a huge Hollywood budget. With an amazing cast of actors and a great director (Francis Ford Coppola), this film won a large number of awards, especially for technical achievements. This is a visually stunning movie, and even Keanu Reeves' iffy acting can't bring down the overall film.
This version of Dracula is closely based (for a Hollywood film) on Bram Stoker's classic novel of the same name. A young lawyer (Jonathan Harker) is assigned to a gloomy village in the mists of Eastern Europe. He is captured and imprisoned by the undead vampire Dracula, who travels to London, inspired by a photograph of Harker's betrothed, Mina Murray. In Britain, Dracula begins a reign of seduction and terror, draining the life from Mina's closest friend, Lucy Westenra. Lucy's friends gather together to try to drive Dracula away, and a final confrontation is inevitable.
This was the ninth highest grossing film worldwide in 1992, making over $215 million dollars, and it was not just a U.S. success, but worldwide. This is one of the best vampire movies ever made,
From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)Robert Rodriguez directs this vampire movie, which was co-written by Quentin Tarantino. This is celebrating one of the best "pulp" vampire movies, complete with sexy half naked women vampires, a modern situation, a vampire "nest" and a mass feeding, with the innocent heroine who you know will somehow make it through, but only after kicking vampire ass!
Seth Gecko and his brother Richard are in hiding after a bloody bank robbery in Texas. They escape across the border into Mexico and will be home-free the next morning, when they pay off the local kingpin. They just have to survive 'from dusk till dawn' at the rendezvous point, which turns out to be a strip joint that, unbeknownst to them, is also an active vampire nest.
The Gecko brothers are fugitives, and are on the run after a very interesting bank robbery. They kidnap the Fuller family, and drive to a Mexican bar to meet with other on-the-run criminals. The two fugitive brothers at gunpoint get an ex-minister and his two children to take them across the border into Mexico. They drive to a Mexican biker bar to meet with the other crooks, but the vampires go nuts, and the survivors must fight their way out to morning. This is the epitome of a pulp vampire film.
Blade (1998)Blade is the first transition of a comic/graphic novel into an action based series. This is as much an action film as a vampire film, and shows where the next evolution of the modern vampire film may be going, as the later film Underworld proves that the trend is likely to continue.
The movie begins with a pregnant woman being admitted to a hospital, bleeding from the neck. Paramedics think she was attacked by some type of animal. Doctors perform an emergency C-Section, and her baby (a boy) is born alive just as she dies. This is the birth of Blade, played by Wesley Snipes, who is half vampire and half human, so he can walk during the day, and hunts vampires.
Blade works with his mentor, Whistler, to hunt vampires. With the help of a young woman, bitten, who Blade saves from a vampire attack, Blade is forced to fight a vampire Deacon Frost, who is attempting to unlock an ancient ceremony in order to turn from a vampire into La Magra, the Blood God.
Blade fights La Magra, and the battle takes place to see whether the day walking vampire can defeat the blood god or not. This is a great action flick, and there are plenty of very good vampire scenes throughout the film. The sucess of the first led to two sequels.
Underworld (2003)This movie embraces the idea of the Vampire-Werewolf rivalry, and in this film this rivalry is an all out war, with the werewolves finding new weapons to attack the vampires, and the vampires realizing they need to catch up. This war is brought into the modern day, and this is once again a comic book based movie that is as much action movie as it is a vampire and werewolf movie.
The vampire Selene, who is also one of the top werewolf (called Lycans in the film) hunters, finds out about a terrible secret hidden from most of the vampires by the elders, and after finding a legend about a human who can somehow be both werewolf and vampire, making it a nearly unstoppable power, she must decide where her loyalties really lie and what this means for the war and her people.
This film has a very modern dark and gothic feel to it, with every single scene taking place at night. This is a great action flick that has some really good werewolf to vampire combat taking place. This is a very quick moving film that will find fans even among viewers who generally don't like vampire films.
Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995)This movie is another spoof from the mind of Mel Brooks. This time he's out to poke fun at the Dracula myth and vampire films in general. Leslie Nielsen, master actor of spoof films, is in this one as Dracula, with Mel Brooks playing his greatest nemesis, the famous Dr. Van Helsing. This film has the usual Mel Brooks spoof, with plenty of singing and dancing while poking fun at vampire movies.
Mel Brooks fans tend to like this film, while vampire movie purists don't, but as far as having a list that shows the wide variety of vampire films out there, the list wouldn't be complete without this one, and a laugh is a good way to end a terrifying marathon.
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Keanu Reeves still sucks, but this was still an intense vampire movie
Frances Ford Coppola brings a big budget and stunning technical achievments to the most beautiful and terrifying modern day portrayal of this age old tale.
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