When discussing any of the five films that comprise "The Twilight Saga" — which I find myself doing with unbothered regularity — my go-to phrasing for encapsulating their general vibe is "delightfully unhinged." I've yet to think of a better way to describe a narrative arc that starts with a girl holding a tiny cactus and ends with her as a red-eyed vampire, settled in the misty town of Forks, Washington with her centenarian husband and their rapidly aging half-vampire daughter, Renesmee.
When the first film in the series hit theaters back in 2008, I was 31 years old, which you'd think would put me well past their intended demographic, but what's been made very clear to me after making my way through the 12 hours of bonus content included in the newly released 15th anniversary SteelBook Collection is that these adaptations of Stephenie Meyer's fantasy romance novels resonate far beyond the young adult audience she had in mind when she wrote the first one in just three months' time, never expecting it to be published, much less become the phenomenon it did, and continues to be after all these years.
