If there's one thing we learned from 2008's first film in the "Twilight" series, it's that vampire flicks don't have be bloody, gory messes. And if there's one thing to be learned by "Cirque du Freak: ...

Since production on "The Vampire's Assistant" ended, he's found himself drawn back several times, most recently on Monday night to host an advance screening of the film for local cast and crew, ...

The first image of “Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant” tells us everything we need to know about what kind of film this is going to be: The movie opens on a tub full of popcorn. What follows is ...

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 ...

We’re actually very excited about John C. Reilly as the vampire ringmaster in the movie of the Cirque du Freak novels. First, he can act. And second, the movie’s not just limited to vampires, there’s ...

Fans hungry to see the first chapter in the Cirque du Freak story come to life can get themselves a little taste of what’s to come as the trailer for the film just debuted. Check it out below courtesy ...

The reinvention of vampires isn’t working. Writers such as Anne Rice, Stephanie Meyer and Darren Shan have turned the tortured into the trivial. They fall in love. They don’t kill people. They’re ...

In The Vampire's Assistant, the second installment of the series begun with Cirque du Freak by Darren Shan, the hero returns to the old-fashioned freak show where, thanks to Mr. Crespley, he became a ...

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 ...

Aug 18, 2009 - IGN's trip to the Big Easy for The Vampire's Assistant.