Like the ominous fingernail moon early on in Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant, the bloodsucker trend is again in a waxing phase thanks to the mass cult followings of the Twilight saga and ...

Like the ominous fingernail moon early on in Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant, the bloodsucker trend is again in a waxing phase thanks to the mass cult followings of the Twilight saga and ...

“Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant” is sort of a “Twilight”-lite. It’s about vampires, and it’s about teenagers. But where “Twilight” vamps down Romance Novel Road, “Freak,” based on Darren ...

"Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant" is sort of a "Twilight"-lite. It's about vampires and it's about teenagers. But where "Twilight" vamps down Romance Novel Road, "Freak," based on Darren Shan ...

As the vampire-version of Buffy the Vampire Slayer‘s Willow liked to say, ”Bored now.” Maybe that’s not completely true for every minute of Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant, but it certainly ...

Two teenage pals turn into vampires and prove too cool for school in this rousing adaptation of Darren Shan’s popular young-adult novels. Hell-raising Josh Hutcherson ropes amiable buddy Chris ...

John C. Reilly as a vampire? How can that not be funny? And it is funny, in a gentler, more unassuming way than you might expect from screenwriters Paul Weitz and Brian Helgeland, who've individually ...

The Reel Story: This teenagers-meets-vampires-and-freaks picture plays things for laughs, but doesn't bite hard enough and is never scary.