We're "up to our glazed eyeballs with the children of Dracula," as James Wolcott puts it in his Vanity Fair review of Twilight, the book, the movie and the phenomenon. But in context with much of the other recent bloodsucking fare, he finds the movie (based on a sample tasting) refreshing, surprisingly better than the book and, contra a number of fan blogs, "impeccably cast." And he even catches a glimpse of deeper themes, noting that "one of the unintended lessons of Twilight is that America has gotten so moribund that it's the undead who come through in the clutch while the living go through their daily paces oblivious."
In typical Vanity Fair fashion, a glam video of the cast photo shoot is attached to make sure fans stay stoked. But with Santa's elves already sporting fangs at the local Borders, the frenzy of anticipation seems unlikely to die down any time soon.