I saw the teen vampire movie Twilight last night with my daughter, 27. We grinned through some parts, groaned through others. Vampire aficionados of the old-school type and grown women who know a little about relationships, we felt the characters were unrealistic and that had nothing to do with some of them being vampires.

That's not to say that Twilight's vision of the vampire doesn't have teeth, but that it twist the very nature of vampires we have known and loved. Defanging vampires for romance is the staple of some of the newer vampire movies, books, and TV series that make vampires our chilvalrous lovers.  (To read more, please click this link.)