And rightly so.

Lauren Bacall, one of the most beautiful women of the Hollywood of yesteryear and star of films like To Have and Have Not and Key Largo, was tasked to watch the recent Twilight film with her granddaughter.

On her Twitter page, she commented thusly:

“Yes, I saw Twilight – my granddaughter made me watch it, she said it was the greatest vampire film ever. After the ‘film’ was over I wanted to smack her across her head with my shoe, but I do not want a (tell-all) book called Grannie Dearest written on me when I die. So instead I gave her a DVD of Murnau’s 1922 masterpiece Nosferatu and told her, ‘Now that’s a vampire film!’ And that goes for all of you! Watch Nosferatu instead!”

I couldn’t have said it better myself.

Vampires used to be cool.  Hopefully, if we can get enough people to see movies like Nosferatu, this whole “vampire romance” thing might die.

But with rumours that Johnny Depp is going to play Barnabus Collins in Tim Burton’s Dark Shadows, somehow I don’t see that happening any time soon, unfortunately.  At least that, though, will more than likely be a well-made and well acted film that makes some manner of sense.