Vampires Suck was released in 2010 and stars Jenn Proske, Matt Lanter and Diedrich Bader. This movie is essentially a spoof of the Twilight saga in which, Rebecca must choose between Edward Sullen a vampire and Jacob White a werewolf. Many of the scenes thave have become iconic in the series have been recreated with a huge spin.
Jenn Proske who plays Becca does a wonderful job of mimicking Kristen Stewart's portrayal of Bella Swan. From the constant lip biting, incoherent mumbling and blank meaningless stares, Proske has her down cold. For his part Lanter who plays Edward does a passable job mocking Edward while proving just how emo his character truly is.
The movie opens with a brawl between team Eward and Team Jacob fans as Bella rushes to stop Edward from exposing himself. Of course this was meant specifically attack the large female teenage audience of the series and construct them as gullible and angst ridden. This in and of itself is almost paternalistic in its desire to control the viewing of young women. To be sure, there are certainly problems with Twilight but critique based simply in the gender of those who are fans of the series is wrong.
The entire aim of Vampires Suck, is to skewer many of the negative images in the original text. It attacks the abstinence message by having Rebecca bite Edward's abstinence ring from his finger. Rebecca pushes Edward forcefully and he is forced to slam her head with a lamp in order to fight off her advances. Of course he swears he is never going to hurt her, and then promptly throws a leather clad Rebecca through a ceiling. All of this is a very obvious way of pointing out Eward's abusive behaviour in the original text.
