Screen legend Lauren Bacall says they don’t make vampire flicks like they used to.

The Hollywood veteran recently watched ‘Twilight’ with her grandchildren, who had assured her that it was “the greatest vampire film ever.” Bacall, however, was not impressed.

She wrote on her Twitter page “Yes, I saw Twilight – my granddaughter made me watch it, she said it was the greatest vampire film ever. After the ‘film’ was over I wanted to smack her across her head with my shoe, but I do not want a (tell-all) book called Grannie Dearest written on me when I die. So instead I gave her a DVD of Murnau’s 1922 masterpiece Nosferatu and told her, ‘Now that’s a vampire film!’ And that goes for all of you! Watch Nosferatu instead!”

The opinionated Bacall knows a thing or two about good movies. Perhaps best known for starring in film noir pictures of the forties, it was Bacall who taught filmgoers how to whistle in ‘To Have and Have Not’ (1944). On that set she met her co-star, Humphrey Bogart, whom she later married. She is also a Tony award winning stage actress and, in 1999, was ranked one of the top 25 actresses of American cinema on the American Film Institute’s 100 Years… 100 Stars list.

The 84-year-old actress is apparently an active tweeter.

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