An ancient vampire, a vamp-obsessed girl, a new kid in town, a bully and an awkward wannabe teen vampire-hunter cross paths in this unlikely Spanish Netflix high-school teen rom-com. Populated by blunt stereotypes in a parade of painful throwaway scenes, attempts at both base humour and crass dialogue are laboured - timing of delivery is a real issue - and not very successful, presented by a well-meaning but largely weak young cast (with Oscar Casas as the new arrival perhaps giving the most watchable performance). Even the fake film-within-the-film of the title that parodies Twilight is too self-consciously bad rather than sharp and knowing. The actual story holds together sufficiently, but dialogue, performances and writing all make this a difficult one to sit through.
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