VAMPIRES: Pt 22 - The Twilight Series (2008 - 2012)
The Evolution of Horror
Mike Muncer
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🗓️ 18 November 2022
⏱️ 112 minutes
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Let's get SPARKLY! This week Mike is joined by Steph McKenna to discuss all five films in one of the most successful yet HATED vampire franchises of all times...Twilight!
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| 0:00.0 | In 2008, a small production company called Summit Entertainment developed an adaptation |
| 0:29.9 | of a vampire story by Stephanie Mayer which was published in 2005. It was in many ways a traditional |
| 0:37.2 | vampire horror romance story in the vein of Buffy and Angel, the story of a teenage human girl |
| 0:44.2 | falling in love with a boy who happened to be a vampire. But the vampires in this particular |
| 0:50.4 | story were different to many of the creatures we had seen in horror cinema previously. They were |
| 0:56.2 | kind and considerate to humans. They were framed from drinking blood. They walked around during |
| 1:01.6 | the day. And when exposed to direct sunlight, they sparkle. Much to the surprise of critics, |
| 1:09.8 | audiences and even the people that made the film, Twilight became a huge international and commercial |
| 1:17.6 | success, drawing in a predominantly teenage audience who would cue round the block to see the film |
| 1:24.4 | multiple times in the cinema. The film spawned four sequels released consecutively over the next |
| 1:31.2 | four years. And while critics and horror fans continue to hate on these movies, their fan |
| 1:37.0 | popularity only grew. The Twilight series went on to gross over $3.4 billion, making a list stars |
| 1:46.1 | of its two lead actors and solidifying its place as the most successful vampire franchise ever made. |
| 1:54.5 | On the world's most dangerous predator, everything about me invites you in. |
| 2:02.1 | My voice, my face, even my smell. Join me as we continue exploring the evolution of the vampire, |
| 2:10.4 | and we discuss the wholesome twinkling world of Twilight. |
| 2:15.3 | Welcome back to the evolution of horror. My name is Mike Munter, and as ever, I am your host. |
| 2:26.6 | If you're tuning in for the first time, then welcome. In this podcast, we explore and dissect |
| 2:31.3 | the history and the evolution of the horror genre by looking at particular subgenres one series |
| 2:36.6 | at a time. We are currently in the middle of our eighth series exploring the evolution of the |
| 2:41.8 | vampire, and this is part 22. And in this week's episode, as that intro suggested, we're going |
| 2:49.5 | to be discussing all five Twilight films. That's Twilight from 2008, New Moon, Eclipse, |
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