A teenage girl moves to a new town and falls for her high school‘s most enigmatic hunk, a guy who just happens to be a vampire. Fantasy-drama-love story starring Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson
"I‘d never given much thought to how I would die, but dying in the place of someone I loved seemed like a good way to go." So says Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) in voiceover at the start of Twilight. It‘s an appropriately morbid and angsty opening to this first adaptation of the bestselling ‘Twilight‘ novels by Stephenie Meyer. Books aimed squarely at the racing hormones of teen and young adult readers.

Bella has relocated from Arizona to join her father (Billy Burke) in a small town in Washington state. If adolescence wasn‘t a tricky enough time, Bella is starting at a new high school halfway through a semester. Thankfully, the school isn‘t riven by jocks, geeks and cliques, except for the five fostered children of local doctor Carlisle Cullen (Peter Facinelli), one of whom is the absurdly handsome Edward (Robert Pattinson).

At first Edward seems repulsed by Bella, as if she smells awful. Bella‘s confused interest in Edward grows when he demonstrates amazing strength to save her from a skidding vehicle. "I had an adrenaline rush. It‘s very common. You can Google it," he says. But she‘s not so easily put off. She‘s even more intrigued when her friend Jacob (Taylor Lautner), a Quileute Indian describes how his tribe is descended from wolves and the Cullens are... something else. Just who or what is Bella‘s superhuman dreamboat?

The first hour of Twilight is the best, as Bella and Edward circle each other, the clues about him mounting. ("You not going to eat?" "No, I‘m on a special diet."). Then comes the big reveal. Yep, he‘s a vampire, though writer Meyer‘s mythology has some variations on tradition - they like overcast Washington, for example, as sunlight doesn‘t hurt them but does make their skin iridescent, which would give t