Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a difficult media to classify into one genre. An obvious classification of the programme・s genre would be horror; but this isn・t entirely true, because the show has more concepts and themes that a horror movie would, and deals with more issues as well. The show uses elements contained in the more fantasy-orientated horror movies (such as Dracula): these include mythological beings such as vampires, demons and zombies; things that aren・t always contained in horror movies. In the episode ：Dead Man・s Party；, the show deals primarily with the undead (a vampire appears near the beginning of the episode, and has very little effect on the story). Mythology