FILM: Few thrills in anaemic teenage vampire romp

Not being a 12-year-old girl, I was unaware that is, apparently, the most important thing that has ever happened in the world. Twilight

Not being a 12-year-old girl, I was unaware that is, apparently, the most important thing that has ever happened in the world. Twilight

The first in a burgeoning franchise of anaemic vampire romances taken from a series of tween-lit books written by Stephenie Meyer, director Catherine Hardwicke’s faltering supernatural drama crested a tsunami of hype to break box office records on its American release. But the film itself fails to quicken the pulse, ...