Twilight
Twilight has little to do with that time just after dusk but who would have thought that we would get two fantastic teen vampire/mortal love stories in rapid succession and both based on enormously popular books. On the heels of Let the Right One In, Twilight reverses the roles and has a creature of the night boy with the girl now the potential dinner/date. Impressive Kristen Stewart who also gets to flex her vocal and song writing skills on the soundtrack plays Bella Swan who shuttles between Phoenix Arizona and the hamlet of Forks Washington to alternate between her divorced parents. Although Forks has not been on the agenda for a while it’s now taking on a more permanent status so Bella has to enrol in the local high school. Also on the attendance role is a standoffish family of teen brothers and sisters whose only family resemblance is their pale complexion. Edward Cullen (Britain’s Robert Pattinson) is the one who catches her eye and she his although he’s tense at first. The attraction seems to be that he can’t read her mind like he can everyone else’s. Perhaps this is his one shot at normalcy ie: good luck to any guy who knows what a woman is really thinking. As the two get cozy an uncharacteristic and un-gory background of the family comes to light – most fascinating is the take on iconic legends like what happens to a vampire when he comes into the light. Pattinson is no stranger to successful adaptations of serialized best sellers (he’s Cedric Diggory from the Harry Potter series) which is good because the sequel is obviously set up to continue on with the rest of the story based on this trilogy of books.