Stephanie Morgan attended Brigham Young University — her Mormon faith informs her writing — before marrying at the age of twenty-one and graduating with a degree in English. Having no prior experience as an author, she got the idea for the Twilight books in a dream. Despite it being her first book, there were multiple companies vying to publish it. It took a month for her to be on the New York Times best seller list and four years later, Twilight was one of the most challenged books according to the American Library Association because of its sexuality and religious content.

As one of the first writers to use social media to connect with her readers. The books have sold over 100 million copies and it was optioned for a movie before the book was published.

Directed by Catherine Hardwicke (Thirteen) and written by Melissa Rosenberg, the movie begins when teenager Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) leaves Phoenix for Forks, a small town in Washington to live with her cop dad Charlie (Billy Burke) after her mom Renée (Sarah Clarke) gets married to a minor league pitcher named Phil (Matt Bushell). She doesn’t want to be in this small town but does remember her childhood friend Jacob Black (Tyler Lauter) who lives on the Quileute Indian Reservation.

Once she’s in school, she becomes obsessed with the rich Cullen family, including Edward (Robert Pattinson), a 108-year-old vampire who looks the same age as her. He has an entire family of adopted siblings who are all taught by their father figure, Carlisle (Peter Facinelli). If it feels like the X-Men, I have plenty to say about that. The family also includes mother Esme (Elizabeth Reaser), precognitive Alice (Ashley Greene), super strong Emmett (Kellan Lutz) and his mate Rosalie Hale (Nikki Reed) and emotion manipulator Jasper Haale (Jackson Rathbone).

What follows — and stay tuned through all of these movies — is a love/hate/I can’t be with you/I can’t be without you relationship between Bella and Edward with Jacob always on the side, trying to escape being a friend.

There’s also another clan of vampires led by Victoria Sutherland (Rachelle Lefevre) and James Witherdale (Cam Gigandet) who want to kill Bella. Along with Laurent (Edi Gathegi), they start killing people in Forks. Eventually, Edward kills James and takes Bella to the prom, where Victoria is waiting for revenge. And oh man, I almost forgot Anna Kendrick is in this!

Twilight is a big dumb movie and I don’t say that in a mean way. It’s not a Universal vampire movie, it’s not Hammer, it’s not even Jess Franco or Jean Rollin. It’s vampires for older teens who want some level of safe erotic excitement as they move from girl to woman. Now, the fact that the vampire is 118 and the girl is 17, well, that is troublesome. The Native American appropriation is as well. But I can’t lie that I wasn’t entertained by these movies, even if I yelled at the screen like a lunatic for the entire film.

As part of THE TWILIGHT SAGA 15th Anniversary SteelBook® Collection 4K, Twilight has extras such as a tour featurette; an interview with creator Stephenie Meyer; features on the cast, music and kiss scene; Catherine Hardwicke’s “Bella’s Lullaby Remix” music video; the red carpet from the movie’s premiere and more. It’s an amazing package that you can get exclusively from Best Buy.