10 Vampirey, Teen-Angsty Things That are Cooler Than Twilight

Amanda Mann November 23, 2012 11:20AM

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2. Blacula - Which one is cooler: a pasty, angular vampire pretty boy or a badass blacksploitation African prince vampire? Robert Pattison isn't fit to sniff the jock strap of William H. Marshall's Prince Mamuwalde from 1972's Blacula.

3. Franco Zefferilli's 1968 Romeo and Juliet - If watching teenagers let their hormones lead them to make terrible life decisions is your bag, Italian director Franco Zeffirilli's 1968 is a must. It's not the Gen X music video onslaught that was 1996's take on the Bard classic, just a solid performance by two then-unknown teen thespians. No one would ever use the phrase "teen thespians" to describe anyone from the Twilight series.

4. Werewolf Bar-Mitzvah - A sketch from 30's Rock's fictional show-within-a-show TGS, Werewolf Bar-Mitzvah sees Tracy Morgan transforming into a werewolf during the sacred Jewish rite of passage. Bonus points for the theme song ("Werewolf bar-mitzvah, spooky scary/Boys becoming men, men becoming wolves") being written by Community's Donald Glover AKA Childish Gambino.

5. Adventureland - Listen, I'm sure Kristen Stewart is a very nice, albeit scowling, young lady. But intense emotional depth in her performances has never been her calling card. Which is part of what makes her so utterly tolerable in the raunchy teen comedy Adventureland. Yes, it's true. She has a setting other than "brooding".

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Amanda Mann