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Horror’s Greatest Heroes: the 10 Best Monster-Fighters!

Horror doesn’t just have to be about scary monsters and their victims — some of our favorite horror stories include awesome monster-slayers, who are on a mission to wipe out everything slimy or toothy. Here are horror’s 10 greatest heroes.

We scoured the internet to find the greatest monster-hunters in horror, and we alsoasked our Facebook page. Here’s what we came up with:

Firefly’s Jewel Staite on Sam’s First SupernaturalKiss, Eating Brains

Eating brains was only part of the pleasure for Jewel Staitewhen she guest-starred on Friday’s episode of The CW’sSupernatural (9/8c).

“I saw that Jensen [Ackles] was directing,” Staite tells TVGuide.com. “He’s an old friend of mine, so I thought, ‘Ooooh, fun! That would be great.’ Luckily it all worked out. When you get on a show where one of the actors is directing, it can go either way. Sometimes they can stress out if they have too much on their plate, but he was so calm and so cool and so collected. He just really impressed me. We had some days we didn’t even go the full 12 hours of shooting. We were let out early because he knew exactly what he wanted and when he got it, he moved on.”

First Look: Buffy vets Charisma Carpenter, James Marsters Guest Star on Supernatural

In the episode “The Girl Next Door,” Staite plays a demon who knew Sam (Jared Padalecki) when they were both children. Despite her habit of eating brains (what’s a hungry demon to do?), they struck up an adolescent romance. More than a decade later, Sam will investigate a case in which he’ll again encounter his childhood friend.

Like her character, Staite also has certain appetites. The self-professed foodie and budding food blogger shared with us details on Sam’s young demon love, her latest projects and where she plans to eat next. (Plus, check out our on-the-set video of Ackles and Padalecki dishing on the new season.)

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Ringer to Have a Buffy Reunion!

Maybe this will help the weak ratings: Sarah Michelle Gellar will reunite with one of her Buffy the Vampire Slayer co-stars on Ringer.

Amber Benson will guest-star in Episode 10 of the freshman series, TVGuide.com has learned exclusively. Benson, who portrayed Willow’s girlfriend Tara Maclay on Buffy, will play Mary Curtis, a stripper who is also an informant for Agent Machado (Nestor Carbonell).

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Then and now

Last seen taking a bullet aimed for Buffy in Season 6, Benson has gone on to appear in several TV series, including Grey’s Anatomy, Private Practice and Supernatural.

Joss Whedon for Equality Now

“I’m tired of being polite about something that matters so much….next year: more, louder, crazier.” Listen to Joss Whedon’s inspirational call to action on behalf of Equality Now, filmed for Can’t Stop The Serenity screenings across the globe in 2011 (http://www.cantstoptheserenity.com). Order your own short-sleeved version of Joss’s t-shirt here:http://equalitynow.org/support/shop.

10 TV Universes You Would and Wouldn’t Want to Live In

TV is full of shows set in their own universes, worlds different from our own (sometimes slightly, sometimes drastically) that open up new avenues for storytellers to explore. It can be a lot of fun to ponder what it would be like to live in a particular universe, to explore that different world, but would it be a positive or negative experience? Here is a list of which TV universes you would and would not want to live in…

Would Not Want to Live In

6. Firefly

Cons: Reavers. There’s also a harsh income gap and if you live on one of the outer planets, your life probably sucks. The Alliance aren’t fun either. Mostly though, it’s the you’re-lucky-if-they-kill-you-quick reavers.

Pros: Wide range of diverse cultures and some of the central planets are cool, so if you live there, it might not be as bad.

Science Fiction and Fantasy Characters Who Lost Their Mystery (but Stayed Cool)

Doctor Who’s River Song has got a tough time ahead of her — she’s joining the biggest science fiction team of them all: the Legion of Formerly Mysterious Characters. Along with Darth Vader, the Man in Black and the Cigarette-Smoking Man, she’ll dwell in a place where almost everybody knows all about her.

River Tam River Song’s namesake is the central mystery of Joss Whedon’s Firefly andSerenity. What did the Alliance and Blue Sun do to her? What superpowers does she actually have? And why is she so valuable to the Alliance that they’re willing to kill anyone who’s even seen her? We eventually find out all about River’s past, her super-ninja powers and her connection to an atrocity that the Alliance wants to keep secret — but River? Still awesome and fascinating.Almost every mysterious science fiction character eventually loses his or her mystery — unless they get cancelled first. But it doesn’t have to be the end. Here are some science fiction and fantasy characters who lost their mystery, but managed to remain cool.

Angel When we first meet him on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, he’s a shadowy figure who knows more than he’s saying, and he seems to be there for Buffy whenever she needs him — but who is he? We eventually learn he’s a vampire, but it takes a couple seasons to get the whole story about how he got his soul and why he’s obsessed with Buffy. But even after countless flashbacks on BtVS and his own series, Angel still has a certain ineluctible cool factor. (Despite the ill-advised attempt to give him mystery again, by turning him into the supervillain Twilight.)

Answers to Nothing Trailers & Video Clips

• Starring: Dane Cook, Elizabeth Mitchell, Mark Kelly, (III), Julie Benz and Erik Palladino.
• Directed by: Matt Leutwyler.

Against the backdrop of a missing girl case, lost souls throughout Los Angeles search for meaning and redemption and affect each other in ways they don’t always see…

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