Ummm. I haven’t seen the movies or read the books, but I have read abou them - and for many, many years I was a devotee of fantasy stories, including many different vampire stories. I have a very good working knowledge of the history and evolution of the vampire genre. I have abandoned watching these kinds of movies for very good reason.
I urge you in the strongest possible terms to avoid these movies. I’ll explain why below.
In these “Twilight” stories we are talking about an intimiate relationship of a living girl with a vampire, regardless of whether or not that relationship is chaste. However, chastity is a nice way of putting some icing on what is pretty dark here. So is Edward’s refusal to drink the blood of humans.
No matter how you define vampires in a particular fantasy world, they all have some common properties. The biggest one is undeath. A state of “immortality” that is somehow conntected to being neither dead nor alive. The classical view of a vampire (Braham Stoker) is that the vampire is the personification of evil on earth (the prince of darkness), and Satan is where the vampire gets his powers. In another genre, the first vampire was Cain (as in the guy who murdered Abel). Other genres have other stories regarding the origin and nature of vampires.
They all have one thing in common. Vampires are undead. (Hence, Edward’s rather gray pall to show that his is not really alive). They also have a *tendency *towards reveling in the darkest forms of evil, regardless whether or not there is a rare “hero” vampire that has some inkling of morality. After all, Edward has to fight his urges.
Undeath contradicts directly the resurrected, glorified body that Christ intends for us on the last day. You are also looking at a choice that excludes God by its nature, because the vampire is neither dead nor alive, and God is the God of the living, not of the dead. Christ Himself said so.
Becoming a vampire is much more than some lifestyle choice. It is a choice to accept a reality other than God, and that conclusion is unavoidable because of the basic nature of vampires - undeath - no matter how you sugar coat their darkness with tales of castity and self denial.
Ironically, the addition of chastity and self denial make these movies much worse than the original vampire movies. Dracula was at least repulsive and clearly evil, and the hero was there to fight him and defeat him. Now, vampires have become objects of pity, poor tortured creatures who should be accepted - especially when they try hard - and the very heroes we are supposed to root for.
“Tolerance” is the watchword in Hollywood. However, tolerance by itself is not a virtue (you don’t tolerate child molesters, for example). Now, “tolerance” is being used to force people to accept all kinds of evils. Now this notion of tolerance is finding itself into even the darkest forms of evil - such as a choice to accept vampirism over the Gospel of Life.
This type movie is the work of the Devil, who constantly tries to twist the Truth around by using virtues like chastity and self denial to mask a dark evil of directly being away from God. This being away from God is implicit to the nature of vampirism - and whether or not the movies hides this state (or don’t address it) is irrelevant, because nothing can change the fact that vampires are antithetical to God.
What I’m trying to say is, the movies use the virtues of chastity and self-denial to mask the most direct and darkest evil of all - being separated from God. If that is not the work of the Father of Lies, I don’t know what is.
Sadly, these movies are especially appealing to girls, who buy into the false sense of romance and love. I believe the Devil is using these movies to sublty tempt many young women away from God. Oh, not all at once, but subtly and slowly.
At its core, a choice for vamprisim is the choice of self, and perceived emotions of romance, over the love God - regardless of other virtues that might appear to be present.
Some fantasy stories posit that vamprism can be inflicted, not chosen. However, the very nature of undeath is antithetical to the God of the living, so the vampire is still evil. I would imagine that the true soul of the unwilling victim would go to its judgement, and the body that is left is just a housing for an evil spirit that replaced the soul. This is becasue God does not granty any power to the evil forces over our souls. It is a matter of dogma and divine Truth that we choose for ourselves whether to accept and obey God, or to go to the eternal separation from God that is the very definition of Hell.
So, even if vamprism is inflicted, the very subject matter deals with the darkest of evils. I urge everyone NOT to see this movie, to abandon the series, not read the books, and rather spend that time contemplating the Truth of the Blessed Sacrament - and to encourage others to do the same.
God Bless,
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I think I’d rather read James Joyce in pig latin. I’d at least be able to stay awake.
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