10 Most Terrifying Scenes In Buffy The Vampire Slayer

Midway through Season 3, Buffy has to face the Tento di Cruciamentum, a right of passage in which the Slayer must take on a challenge without using her supernatural abilities. Buffy’s challenge is especially frightening, as she has to venture into a creepy house and defeat a homicidal vampire called Zachary Kralik.

For several minutes, Buffy is forced to flee from this dreaded vampire. Without her usual powers, she struggles to stay alive, and her creepy surroundings make the whole situation even more unsettling. Worse still, she then stumbles into a room full of photographs featuring her kidnapped mother. This prolonged psychological torture finally comes to an end when Buffy finds Joyce at the bottom of the house and tricks Kralik into drinking holy water, causing him to burn from the inside.

Given everything that was going on around her, Buffy’s quick thinking is highly impressive. If anyone else had been trapped in a creepy house with this psychotic vampire, they would probably have run away screaming.