Wattpad brings you a guest post from Teddy Jacobs, author of teen fiction “Wicked Hungry.”
He talks abouthis top four movies and shows featuring werewolves or vampires:
1. Teen Wolf is a guilty pleasure. I discovered the MTV show after writing “Wicked Hungry”, and love the way an “ordinary” high school athlete becomes a superhuman. Also, how daring is it to have a show where the main character is a lacrosse player?
2. Twilight. The first film. Love it or hate it. Find it campy, unintentionally funny, or unbearably moving. But. The baseball scene. Rocks.
3. The Underworld series. Kate Beckinsale in leather, kicking ass. But most of all, Bill Nighy as Viktor, the oldest, most coldblooded (and hippest) vampire of them all.
4. Being Human. The BBC series, not the American one. Characters you care about, violence you believe – all in the context of real and very scary hungers.
What do all these television series and films share? A certain hipness, a certain amount of campy cheesiness we can laugh at, and characters. Characters we can care about. And action. Lots of action. Emotion. Lots of emotion. Often, hot, furious passion-fueled action faced with cold ruthlessness.
All stewed together into one hot mess. That can be enjoyed on so many levels. As comfort food, or fuel for laughter, or to take the viewer on a roller-coaster of action-filled and emotionally-charged adventure.
Or, at the best of times, all three at once.
Read “Wicked Hungry” on Wattpad:
Stanley Hoff has it hard. His overprotective mom thinks she’s a witch who can see people’s auras; Stanley himself is getting hairier by the minute, his teeth ache, and the moon above him makes him want to howl and growl.
But things are not going to get any easier.
After a confrontation with a high school bully brings unwanted fame, Stanley’s childhood crush Meredith invites him to her Halloween party. Which would be more than fine, except his friend Karen has broken up with her boyfriend and wants to be more than friends. But when Karen turns allergic to sunlight, Stanley has to ask himself, is Karen interested in Stanley as a boyfriend, or as… food?