Most of the revelers appear drunk. One by one, human faces morph into hideous, smirking masks. Doyle finds himself trapped, unable to move, his body pinned inside a wooden box a party game gone horribly wrong. A demon produces a magic marker and draws a dotted line around Doyle s skull. A razor-sharp ceremonial knife gleams.
Someone hands the creature a shrimp fork.
Suddenly, Angel bursts into the room, fists and feet flying, an underworld superhero to the rescue . . . Call it the show that Buffy built. In the fall of 1999 WB spun off Angel from its hot teen occult thriller Buffy the Vampire Slayer . Now, just like Buffy , it delivers dark, menacing and often gruesome images. Angel revels in violence.