While the Buffy cast disbanded at hiatus to pursue their own projects and aspirations for slackerdom, Brendon spent his summer on the beach... but he wasn't lounging around. He landed some work outside of Buffydom, in a film called Psycho Beach Party, and spent the summer hiatus filming.

"It was like a Gidget meets Scream kind of thing, and I played this character of Starcat. It was awesome. It was a lot of fun. I'm really nervous about it because it's a period piece. It should come out next year. And Lauren Ambrose is in it, she's amazing at playing the Chicklet character. I need to see it, before I can talk about it. It was a lot of fun, and I got a free surfboard out of it."

And Buffy fans who acutely felt a lack of Xander in the October 5th Buffy premiere can blame their disgruntlement onto this foray into film.

"I was actually shooting Psycho [Beach Party], when they did the first episode [of Buffy]," Brendon says, excusing his absence. "So I have two scenes, but I've got one monologue that is my most favorite ever."

Psycho Beach Party isn't the actor's only film in the makings, either; his name is attached to another horror flick (most likely of a campy nature) called Piñata, in which a group of teens accidentally release an evil spirit from -- you guessed it -- a possessed piñata during a Cinco de Mayo party.

He's also considered a likely candidate -- by hopeful fans, anyway -- to play the lead in a big-screen, live-action version of the comic book we all know and love, Spiderman. Whether he'll get the role remains to be seen, though many of us -- The 11th Hour staff included -- feel he's the only man for the job.