I used to love a show called
Forever Knight. And of course Lost Boys and Rice's vampires.
I know I'm in the minority on LoT - I really enjoyed the Twilight books. The first movie, not so much as I felt it left a lot out, more than necessary. I also thought the make-up was terrible and the sparkles left much to be desired and what's with fangless vamps? I hope with a new director some of these issues will be rectified.
I went into the books knowing they were written for teens, they are nothing more than teen horrmance, like Christopher Pike, RL Stein and VC Andrews. I think that perspective enabled me to enjoy the books for what they were. Don't get me wrong, they were full of so much teen angst and I wanted to smack a few of the characters. But they were really nothing more than teen horrmance that came on the heels of Potter, so adults got into yet another teen series.