I vant to drink your blaaaad...

So, this whole Twilightmania thing has been a source of quiet intrigue for me now for some months. The first I heard about it was at the start of the year; there was an article about it in the paper, questioning why on earth this vampire love story, written by a 30-something year old Mormon that she based on a dream she’d had, had become so enormously popular. ‘A cult book about vampires, why the hell haven’t I heard of this?’ I pondered, so at my next available chance I headed out and made the purchase. It’s a pretty good read. The story is fab, it’s like, Notebook passionate but all about vampires and werewolves (which in my world makes it infinitely better) and the fact that the leading man could, at any time, decide ‘Fuck this, there’ll be other girls, I’m totally just going to kill this bitch’ and sink his teeth into her neck makes it pretty sexy. But, and with no disrespect to the author at all, it’s no Lord of the Rings. So I really, really didn’t get the whole pandemonium that was going on in the States at all. The movie has gotten the biggest opening in 2008 after Batman, for Christ’s sake! I haven’t seen it yet so I guess I have to hold judgement, but hearing things like that only makes me a gazillion times more intrigued by this whole thing than I already am. People just keep telling me ‘Oh, its just another case of a low budget cult-movie becoming popular’ but Donnie Darko was a low budget cult that became unexpectedly massive, yet Jake Gyllenhaal didn’t have teenage girls dressed as fucking rabbits throwing themselves at him when he walked down the street. I saw the guy who plays the Vampire being interviewed and he said all these young girls get dressed up as Bella Swan, camp out for like 4 days by some Hot Topic or wherever the hell he’s doing a signing and scrawl ‘BITE ME’ across their necks. That’s just ridiculous. I know Robert Pattinson is like, a grade A fucking beaut, but why cant these kids just put a poster of him on their walls and make do like normal people? It’s bizarre. Stuff like this really weirds me out. Although who knows, I may go and see the movie next weekend, become just as brainwashed and will start going around dressing like Hollyoaks Newt’s new girlfriend.

But I highly doubt it.