Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant

20092009
PG-13PG-13
1h 49min

Salma Hayek, John C. Reilly, Ray Stevenson, and Chris Massoglia in Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (2009)

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Teenager Darren Shan meets a mysterious man at a freak show who turns out to be a vampire. After a series of events, Darren must leave his normal life and go on the road with the Cirque du F... Read allTeenager Darren Shan meets a mysterious man at a freak show who turns out to be a vampire. After a series of events, Darren must leave his normal life and go on the road with the Cirque du Freak, becoming a creature of the night.Teenager Darren Shan meets a mysterious man at a freak show who turns out to be a vampire. After a series of events, Darren must leave his normal life and go on the road with the Cirque du Freak, becoming a creature of the night.

Director
- Paul Weitz
Writers
- Paul Weitz(screenplay)
- Brian Helgeland(screenplay)
- Darren Shan(series of books)
Stars

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Awards
- 1 nomination

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Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant -- Darren and Steve Buy Tickets

Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant -- Darren and Steve Buy Tickets

Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant -- Trailer #1

Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant -- Trailer #1

Cirque du Freak: "Murlaugh Abducts Darren"

Cirque du Freak: "Murlaugh Abducts Darren"

Cirque du Freak: "Crepsley and Murlaugh Fight"

Cirque du Freak: "Crepsley and Murlaugh Fight"

Cirque du Freak: "Steve and Darren Fight"

Cirque du Freak: "Steve and Darren Fight"

Cirque du Freak: "Evra Sets the Rules of the Tent"

Cirque du Freak: "Evra Sets the Rules of the Tent"

Cirque du Freak: "Madame Truska Has a Vision"

Cirque du Freak: "Madame Truska Has a Vision"

Cirque du Freak: "Darren Asks What Powers He Has"

Cirque du Freak: "Darren Asks What Powers He Has"

Cirque du Freak: "Steve Asks Crepsley to Turn Him Into a Vampire"

Cirque du Freak: "Steve Asks Crepsley to Turn Him Into a Vampire"

Chris Massoglia in Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (2009)

Salma Hayek in Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (2009)

Salma Hayek and John C. Reilly in Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (2009)

Patrick Fugit, Chris Massoglia, and Jessica Carlson in Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (2009)

John C. Reilly in Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (2009)

Josh Hutcherson and Chris Massoglia in Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (2009)

John C. Reilly, Ray Stevenson, and Chris Massoglia in Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (2009)

Patrick Fugit and Paul Weitz in Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (2009)

Patrick Fugit and Chris Massoglia in Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (2009)

Willem Dafoe, John C. Reilly, and Josh Hutcherson in Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (2009)

Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (2009)

Michael Cerveris, Josh Hutcherson, and Chris Massoglia in Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (2009)

Teenager Darren Shan is an excellent student and the pride and joy of his perfect middle-class family, but his best friend is the reckless Steve. When they receive a flyer with an advertisement for a freak show, they sneak to the theater to see the attractions. The star attraction is a vampire called Larten Crepsley, who performs with a colorful yet very lethal spider. After the show, Darren tarries to see the spider and overhears Steve unsuccessfully trying to convince Larten to transform him into a vampire. Darren steals Larten's spider, which later bites Steve. In seeking an antidote from Larten, Darren accepts a deal to become his half-vampire assistant. —Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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Taglines
- Meet Darren. He's sixteen going on immortal.
Genres
Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
- Rated PG-13 for sequences of intense supernatural violence and action, disturbing images, thematic elements and some language
Parents guide

Trivia
What drew John C. Reilly to play Larten Crepsley was "the fact that it was a real person, that he wasn't some supernatural mystical being that can turn into a vampire bat. The powers weren't so extreme that it was just another thing altogether, that this guy was a person who was alive in the 1800s who was essentially about my age. If you account the slow aging, he is forty something years old" he said.

Goofs
In the first show, just as Mr.Tall is introducing Madame Truska, as he says "...the exotic...", you can see more light passing through the tips of his unnaturally long fingers than the rest of his fingers, revealing that the actor is wearing hollow prosthetic to make the fingers appear longer.

Quotes
Larten Crepsley: Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. I am so excited to be here in an anonymous small town which used to have character but is now just a bland suburb filled with chain stores and surrounded by slums.
[awkward silence in audience]
Larten Crepsley: It really is a pleasure to be here. And I am SO honored that bla, bla, bla and so on and so forth, et cetera, ad nauseam.

Connections
Featured in The Jay Leno Show: Episode #1.22 (2009)

Soundtracks
There Was a Time - Kenny Dope Remix
Written by James Brown, Buddy Hobgood
Performed by James Brown
Courtesy of Universal Records and The Verve Music Group
Under license from Universal Music Enterprices

Top review

6/10

Fun movie, anticlimactic ending.

This movie was surprisingly good, mind you I went it with zero expectations. The premise Is fairly well developed, but the storyline itself leaves a lot to be desired. There's no real conclusion to anything, there's a 'final fight' scene which is well choreographed but doesn't do much to actually end the movie. It seems like they were trying to set up a sequel that never happened. I enjoyed the rest of the movie, it was definitely for kids, but easy to watch.

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Budget
- $40,000,000 (estimated)
Gross US & Canada
- $13,869,515
Opening weekend US & Canada
- $6,293,205
- Oct 25, 2009
Gross worldwide
- $39,291,383

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Runtime
- 1h 49min
Color
- Color
Sound mix
Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1

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