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cirque du freak: the vampire's assistant
- scifi/fantasy, action/adventure, horror |
- 108 mins
- Release Date: october 23, 2009
- Starring: john c. reilly, ken watanabe, josh hutcherson, chris massoglia... more »
- Director: paul weitz
Phoenix Review
You’ve seen it all before: a boy with a special destiny tangles with the occult and gets sucked out of his normal life and into the twilight realm of the supernatural, in the process setting the stage for paranormal war between good and evil. Read More »Details
- Rating: pg-13 for sequences of intense supernatural violence and action, disturbing images, thematic elements and some language
- Official Site: http://www.thevampiresassistant.net
- Cast: john c. reilly, ken watanabe, josh hutcherson, chris massoglia, ray stevenson, patrick fugit, orlando jones, willem dafoe, salma hayek
- Director: paul weitz
- Writer: paul weitz, brian helgeland, darren shan
- Producer: lauren shuler donner, paul weitz, ewan leslie
- Synopsis: ", cirque du freak: the vampire's assistant,", based on the popular series of books by darren shan, is a fantasy-adventure about a teenager who unknowingly breaks a 200-year-old truce between two warring factions of vampires. pulled into a fantastic life of misunderstood sideshow freaks and grotesque creatures of the night, one teen will vanish from the safety of a boring existence and fulfill his destiny in a place drawn from nightmares. sixteen-year-old darren was like most kids in his suburban neighborhood. he hung out with his best friend steve, got decent grades and usually stayed out of trouble. but, when he and his buddy stumble upon a traveling freak show, things begin to change inside darren. that's the exact moment when a vampire named larten crepsley turns him into something, well, bloodthirsty. newly undead, he joins the cirque du freak, a touring sideshow filled with monstrous creatures from a snakeboy and a wolfman to a bearded lady and a gigantic barker. as darren flexes his newfound powers in this dark world, he becomes a treasured pawn between the vampires and their deadlier counterparts. and, while trying to survive, one boy will struggle to keep their brewing war from devouring what's left of his humanity.
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Rambling preamble to my upcoming Oscar predictions
Outside The Frame | February 14, 2012 at 6:38 PM Attend this film event: "An Evening With Michael Almereyda" [Paradise + Street screenings] @ the HFA
February 12, 2012 at 12:00 PM See this film: The Theater Bizarre @fter midnight at the Coolidge
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February 08, 2012 at 3:00 PM
Outside The Frame | February 14, 2012 at 6:38 PM Attend this film event: "An Evening With Michael Almereyda" [Paradise + Street screenings] @ the HFA
February 12, 2012 at 12:00 PM See this film: The Theater Bizarre @fter midnight at the Coolidge
February 10, 2012 at 11:00 AM Attend this film fest: 37th Boston Science Fiction Film Festival @ the Somerville Theatre
February 09, 2012 at 12:00 PM Attend this film program: "Cinematheque: An Evening With Joe Swanberg" @ BU
February 08, 2012 at 3:00 PM
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