Some monsters just aren’t sexy enough for Twilight, as can be seen in this spoof from SNL starring Taylor Swift. Instead of brooding vampires and pensive werewolves, “Firelight” has Bella caught in a love triangle with Phillip “Frank”enstein and Max the Mummy.
The Cullens are now the “Franks” a family of green skinned, bolt-necked monsters who accidentally strangle people to death. Bella discovers Phillip’s secret when he has a bad reaction to a lit Bunsen burner in biology class (fire bad!).
In switching up the monsters, the spoof unwittingly reveals the function of vampires as metaphors for teenage sexuality in the Twilight saga. Both Frankenstein and the Mummy represent fears of the undead and the "other' in a way that differs from the creatures in Twilight, making them inappropriate symbols in a bitingly comic spoof.
I was on MySpace when a Zombieland promo popped up with Woody Harrelson and that kid from Juno giving tips on how to survive a zombie apocalypse. This bit of fun seguewayed into the trailer and I was about to click off when I noticed the zombie stripper that chases the Asian businessman out of the nudie club (an image that has stuck with me since my first viewing of the redband trailer) was now wearing a digital bikini top! Check out the regular and restricted trailers at the Zombieland website to witness the hilarity.
These two reptilian babes are taking each other on in this special Women in Horror Recognition Month edition of Monster Smackdown. Who will be the victor? A once beautiful maiden cursed by the gods or the daughter of a mad scientist? Lethality: The Reptile packs a pretty powerful bite. Her victims die within minutes, foaming at the mouth as their flesh turns black with her venom. She racks up a body count in the small village of Clagmoor Heath in Cornwall where locals blame the rash of deaths on the Black Plague. While the Reptile's venom is powerful, she still needs to get close to sink her fangs into her victim. Medusa can literally turn her victims to stone with a glance. Medusa was once a beautiful maiden who defiled Athena's temple by having an affair with Poseidon. In revenge, Athena transformed Medusa's hair into writhing snakes and made her face so horrible to look upon that it would turn onlookers to stone. Medusa's lethality is more powerful than poison, ...
It’s been awhile since I felt like giving a film a standing ovation, but the mastery of a film like Black Swan makes me want to do just that. Black Swan just hits so many of the right notes. A solid story, some genuinely creepy scares and a forceful finale give this behind the scenes revision of the ballet classic Swan Lake some serious bite. Black Swan stars Natalie Portman as a fresh-faced ballerina who is chosen to play the Swan Queen in her company’s winter production of Swan Lake. Though Nina is a natural as the innocent and guileless Swan Queen, she discovers she must also play her nemesis, the seductive and cunning Black Swan who seduces the Swan Queen’s prince and drives her to suicide. The film is the story of Nina’s terrifying journey to embody both roles. Black Swan has been called a psychosexual thriller for good reason and the film’s sexual tension goes hand in hand with Nina’s creative tension. Under her mother’s strict eye, she works hard to be the perfect dancer he...
Some monsters just aren’t sexy enough for Twilight, as can be seen in this spoof from SNL starring Taylor Swift. Instead of brooding vampires and pensive werewolves, “Firelight” has Bella caught in a love triangle with Phillip “Frank”enstein and Max the Mummy.
The Cullens are now the “Franks” a family of green skinned, bolt-necked monsters who accidentally strangle people to death. Bella discovers Phillip’s secret when he has a bad reaction to a lit Bunsen burner in biology class (fire bad!).
In switching up the monsters, the spoof unwittingly reveals the function of vampires as metaphors for teenage sexuality in the Twilight saga. Both Frankenstein and the Mummy represent fears of the undead and the "other' in a way that differs from the creatures in Twilight, making them inappropriate symbols in a bitingly comic spoof.
You can post Twatlight spoofs anytime and make my day! :-)
ReplyDeleteI thought you were going to talk about the Jenna Haze version for a sec (I just a read a bad review of that one too).
ReplyDeleteI saw this SNL skit, and must admit I found it funny (I normally can't stand to watch SNL, but I like Andy Samberg and that Hot Rod crew).
Neat observations as usual!