TEXT: [PREVIOUSLY_ON] Buffy: "Parker, did I do something wrong?" Parker: "Didn't you have fun?" Buffy: "Is that all it was?" Parker: "What else was it supposed to be?" Buffy: "He's manipulative and shallow, and why doesn't he want me?" Willow: "I think you're missing something about the whole poop-head principle." Xander: "Hi again." Anya drops her dress and Xander squeezes the juice box. Xander and Anya getting dressed. Xander(voice over): "So, college not so scary after all, huh?" Three masked commando guys with weapons drawn walking up to a vamp laying on the ground. Buffy (voice over): "It's turning out a lot like high school, which I can handle." Xander in his basement with a knife in his hand. Xander: "I don't know, I was going for ferocious, scary, but it's coming out more dryly sardonic." Willow: "It does appear to be mocking you with its eye holes." Oz: "The nose hole seems sad and full of self-loathing." Xander turns the jack-o-lantern around to show to Buffy who's laying on his bed: "What do you think, Buff?" Buffy: "I was just thinking about the life of a pumpkin. Grow up in the sun - happily entwined with others, then someone comes along, cuts you open and - rips your guts out." Xander: "Okay, and on that happy note, I've got a treat for tomorrow nights second annual Halloween screening. People - prepare to have your spines tingled, your gooses bumped by the terrifying (Pulls out a video and reads the title) Fantasia. Fantasia?" Oz: "Maybe it's because of all the - horrific things we've seen, but hippos wearing tutus just don't unnerve me the way they used to." Xander: "Phantasm.
SUMMARY:
The gang find themselves in a real-life house of horrors while at a Halloween frat party, in which a fear demon feeds on their individual fears. Meanwhile, Anya needs Giles to help her save Xander when she realizes something is amiss.