It didn't receive an award, it was just featured in a montage with many other films of the genre. The same montage featured a scene from Misery which isn't really a horror movie, either (a thriller, at best.)
Poll: Twilight honored among "Exorcist" and "The Shining" at Academy Awards
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You know, maybe if we ignore them, they'll go away.
C'mon lads and lasses, let's make a serious effort of this: ignore Twilight into nonexistence. Don't just not give a damn, ACTIVELY PRETEND IT DOES NOT EXIST. When fans proselyte over its greatness, they are clearly speaking gibberish, because no such thing exists.
Plus, it'll be damn funny watching them turn varying shades of purple.
C'mon lads and lasses, let's make a serious effort of this: ignore Twilight into nonexistence. Don't just not give a damn, ACTIVELY PRETEND IT DOES NOT EXIST. When fans proselyte over its greatness, they are clearly speaking gibberish, because no such thing exists.
Plus, it'll be damn funny watching them turn varying shades of purple.
There seem to be a number of discussions going on here so I figured I'd break my opinion down:
OT: No, Twilight qualifies in no way as a horror film. Just because it has vampires and werewolves does not make it horror. Its like the "Scary Movie" series, they have horror based characters, but the movies are blatently comedy.
Regarding the Twilight vampire vs. Standard vampire debate: Twilight didn't miss the mark by too much reagrding traditional vampiric lore (Though the sparkle thing is just facepalm worthy.), however, the main deviation is less in how they differ physically and more in that they, for lack of a better term, "castrated" the vampire and made him no longer an inhuman badass. Now they appear to be more emoional than regular humans, since when do monsters have compassion? Its the distinct lack of humanity that characterizes all horror movie vilians.
Regarding Twilight hate: I don't dislike twilight for the story or the characters, I have no right to judge the books/movies as I haven't read/seen them. However, what I do dislike is the effect the series has had on women my age. On my dorm floor we have a handful of diehard twilight fans and from conversations I 've had with them, they hold all men up to the so called "standard" of Edward.
They've said before that they wish all men were more like him and that they only want to date men like him as well. From what I've gathered on the character, he is nothing to aspire to, and yet all these girls want their man to be like him, or in some bizarrely extreme cases, even BE him. Doesn't bode well for single men out there...
OT: No, Twilight qualifies in no way as a horror film. Just because it has vampires and werewolves does not make it horror. Its like the "Scary Movie" series, they have horror based characters, but the movies are blatently comedy.
Regarding the Twilight vampire vs. Standard vampire debate: Twilight didn't miss the mark by too much reagrding traditional vampiric lore (Though the sparkle thing is just facepalm worthy.), however, the main deviation is less in how they differ physically and more in that they, for lack of a better term, "castrated" the vampire and made him no longer an inhuman badass. Now they appear to be more emoional than regular humans, since when do monsters have compassion? Its the distinct lack of humanity that characterizes all horror movie vilians.
Regarding Twilight hate: I don't dislike twilight for the story or the characters, I have no right to judge the books/movies as I haven't read/seen them. However, what I do dislike is the effect the series has had on women my age. On my dorm floor we have a handful of diehard twilight fans and from conversations I 've had with them, they hold all men up to the so called "standard" of Edward.
They've said before that they wish all men were more like him and that they only want to date men like him as well. From what I've gathered on the character, he is nothing to aspire to, and yet all these girls want their man to be like him, or in some bizarrely extreme cases, even BE him. Doesn't bode well for single men out there...
Sparkle-Romance.
I'm just waiting for the point where Edward reveals his true identity and beats the living shit out of everyone.
I'm just waiting for the point where Edward reveals his true identity and beats the living shit out of everyone.
It's got "vampires" in it (of a sort), and it's really popular. The people doing the montage probably figured that was good enough. Some of the other films in the montage weren't strictly "horror" either (depending on whose definition of the term you're using).Jim Grim said:
I'm not sure as to what the scariest thing in Twilight is: The fact that it's so popular, or the fact that it even exists. At this point, anything is possible.
I expect a movie version of My Immortal to be in the works within the first half of this decade.
I expect a movie version of My Immortal to be in the works within the first half of this decade.
The Shining is one of my favourite horror movies....and Twilight is a big pile of arse. The fact that somebody could seriously compare the two is just.....ugh.
I even know somebody who loves the Twilight books and despises both of the films. Says it all really.
I even know somebody who loves the Twilight books and despises both of the films. Says it all really.
