Screaming fans, midnight showings…vampires?

How do these all relate? The Twilight movie! The movie, opening nationwide November 21, is causing mass chaos among the over 17 million fans who can’t wait to see Edward Cullen on screen. The midnight showing of this movie is Thursday night, and it promises to be quite an event.

No matter how you feel about this series by Stephenie Meyer, you have to admit that it has garnered a good deal of media attention. You know at least one person who has read this series and swears by it. In fact, in my limited experience, I haven’t met anyone who has read the books and been dissatisfied.

The first book in the saga is Twilight, upon which the movie is based. It begins with Bella Swan, a seventeen-year-old self-proclaimed “old soul” who has just moved with her father to Forks, Washington. It is there, at her new school, that Bella meets the Cullen family.

More importantly, Edward Cullen.

Edward is a vampire, but don’t let that throw you. He also happens to be one of the most attractive book-heroes ever. He is over-protective, sweet, and caring.

Oh, yeah. And he looks like a model.

It turns out, Edward is having a rough go of it because he really wants Bella’s blood. But he’s been a vampire for 80 years, so he has learned some self-control. Enough for them to start dating and him to start doing all sorts of adorable things.

I don’t want to ruin the book for those of you who haven’t yet read it (and I do say “yet-” give in already people!) but pretty much here’s the gist: Edward Cullen leaves girls everywhere ruined for all eternity because of the impossible ideal that they now hold all men to.

But he’s so worth it.

The movie is out tomorrow night, everyone! Get ready for some crazy girl-screaming to happen.