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Jared Richards

‘My eyes are stinging, but damn it, they’re open’: surviving a 12-hour Twilight marathon in the year 2025

Jared Richards settles in to watch a marathon screening the Twilight Saga is a series of romantic Vampire fantasy films based on the book series Twilight by Stephenie Meyer at the Ritz Cinema, Randwick, Sydney, Australia. 10 October 2025
Jared Richards, dressed as vampire Edward Cullen, settles in to watch a marathon screening of the five Twilight films at the Ritz Cinema in Randwick, Sydney. Photograph: Jessica Hromas/The Guardian

It is about 4am on a Saturday morning and a delirious energy is emerging at Randwick Ritz’s dusk-to-dawn, 12-hour marathon of the Twilight Saga. The cinema has the airs of an airport terminal after significant delays; at this point, people no longer care how they look and are doing anything they can to stay comfortable.

We’ve reached the night’s 30-minute “breakfast break”, which means we are three of five films into the romantic tale of clumsy, quiet teen Bella Swan, who moves to the foggy forest town of Forks, Washington and falls for Edward Cullen, a (permanently) 17-year-old vampire.

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