All five Twilight movies are once again streaming on Netflix, and once again, audiences can’t seem to get enough of these sexy vampires. What can we say? We love nostalgia, we love camp, and we love absurdity, and Twilight delivers all three of those things in spades.
If you were a middle school girl in the late aughts, you either read Stephenie Meyer’s wildly popular vampire romance novel Twilight, or you consciously chose not to read it. But the first Twilight movie, directed by Catherine Hardwicke and released in 2008, took this steamy story to a whole new level. Robert Pattinson stars as Edward Cullen, the sexy, sparkly, 108-year-old vampire who, for whatever reason, decides to spend his immortal years at a public high school in Forks, Washington. And Kristen Stewart stars as the human high school student named Bella that Edward falls in love with.
It’s important to understand just how big the hype surrounding this movie was. Stephenie Meyer’s
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