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No, vampires shouldn't be cute...or cuddly. That is not the only reason why I'm not a fan of Twilight however. I'm really just not a fan of the angst riddled and dependency driven characters of the storyline. It's also due to the fact that Twilight goes against my notions of what I think a vampire should be. I just think vampires should be a mature mix of intelligence, sensuality and menacing evil. No, they shouldn't be mindless killing machines but for the love of all that's unholy, did they really have to sparkle?

Millions of Twitards who have helped make Twilight one of the most successful vampire franchises regardless of the film's flaws would disagree with me though, and Twilight in Forks is the latest film to prove that. Fresh off the ride Anything-Twilight wave, comes a documentary that discusses the accuracy of Forks, the tiny town in Washington where the majority of books take place.

Says Dread Central: "One of the things that makes 'Twilight' so unique is how much time Stephenie spent, as almost a journalistic approach, researching [the town’s details] for that original story," explained Bauer. "['Twilight'] is about the story [of Bella and Edward] itself, but along the way she documents every nuance of the town so accurately - the names of streets, the distances between things, the actual structures and the businesses. Every detail is in the book, and it’s actually there in the town."

"An interesting fact about Stephenie’s research is that it’s really accurate — and of course, if you talk to her publicist and herself, they would say she had never been to Forks before she wrote the book," explained Brown, setting up one of the topics they delve into for the film. "There’s actually a little bit of debate about that that, and it turns up in our movie."