Every Way Twilight Changed Traditional Vampires
Everyone remembers that the Twilight saga’s vampires were famous for shining when hit with sunlight, but not every fan of the series knows just how much Stephenie Meyers’ novels and their movie adaptions altered the traditional vampire mythos. The Twilight movies got a lot of flack from critics for having some deeply un-scary vampires, and the ribbing was not entirely undeserved. Where the iconic Stephen King adaptation Salem’s Lot turned its vampires into mute, monstrous killing machines, the teen romance saga featured “vampires” who didn’t survive on human blood and could walk around in daylight.
This allowed Twilight to tell a paranormal teen romance without having to answer awkward questions like “how can he attend school if he can’t leave the house during the day?” However, Twilight’s alterations to traditional vampire mythology did not go unnoticed and caused a sizable controversy among fans of the horror sub-genre. For some years in the early 2010s, no conversation about Twilight was complete without fans and detractors both defending and complaining about the saga’s infamous “sparkly vampires.”
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The vampires of Twilight did twinkle in the sun instead of spontaneously combusting, but this change was actually not that unusual for depictions of the mythical monsters. For example, Bram Stoker’sDracula (seen by many fans of the sub-genre as the formative vampire story) featured scenes of its villain stalking through London during the day without accruing any damage. That said, the vampires of Twilight diverged from traditional lore in numerous other ways that were subject to less criticism at the time of the saga’s success, but which
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