Guilty Pleasures -- A thing for vampires


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Yup, Guilty Pleasures has it: a bad case of "Twilight" fever.

Stephenie Meyer's rainy romance novel with a vampire twist is one of those books you can't put down. Last weekend, after coming home from the bars, Guilty Pleasures still stayed up 'till dawn reading chapter after chapter.

Sure it's book candy, an over-indulgent love story about an accident-prone but beautiful (of course) girl who falls in love with a super hot vampire who just happens to also lust for her (and her blood).

To be fair, though, Guilty Pleasures has always had a thing for those creatures of the night. You don't have to be a mopey Goth kid to dig vampires; they're the ultimate bad boys -- dark and mysterious, unbelievably handsome, brooding and, for some, alluringly complex in their guilt over doing what vampires do.

So while Edward Cullen (played in the movie by actor Robert Pattinson) may be getting all the attention now, he's just one on Guilty Pleasures' list. What, you don't have a list of your favorite vampires? Here are a few Guilty Pleasures wouldn't mind meeting in a dark alley:

* Hottie head vamp Stephen Dorff in "Blade." (Sorry Wesley Snipes, you were only a half-vampire.)

* David Bowie as the almost-immortal Manhattan vampire in "The Hunger."

* When it comes to Spike vs. Angel in the "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" TV series, definitely Spike.

* Brad Pitt vs. Tom Cruise in "Interview with the Vampire." Brad Pitt, no question.

* And the entire vampire cast in "The Lost Boys." What 13-year-old in America didn't want a little vampire neck action after this movie came out?

However, do not be fooled, as Guilty Pleasures was recently, into renting the kinda-sorta sequel "Lost Boys: The Tribe."

Though it features Angus Sutherland -- Kiefer's younger half-brother -- and Corey Feldman reprising his role as Edgar Frog, Guilty Pleasures can't decide if this movie is a really bad send-up to the original or just plain really bad.

 

* Guilty Pleasures is a weekly look at whatever Guilty Pleasures wants to look at.



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