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: ...

Salma Hayek as Madam Truska in 'Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant.' With a project such as "The Vampire's Assistant, " which is build around dark themes, it only bolsters the aesthetic texture.

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 ...

A fresh attempt is being made to bring Larten Crepsley and his vampiric protégé to the screen. The author didn't elaborate any further on who had done the optioning (or who would write the scripts for ...

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 ...

It's getting downright batty trying to keep all these vampires straight. You have your traditional vampires ("Nosferatu"), your blond slayer foils ("Buffy: The Vampire Slayer"), your sexy vamps ("True ...

Can these zoomy undead kids perk your vampire fetish? The first clip from the traveling-freak-circus film The Vampire’s Assistant, with a bearded Salma Hayek and John C. Reily as vampire ringleader, ...

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Hollywood is committed to adapting tween lit involving wizards or vampires, regardless of quality, popularity or even sanity. Based on the allegedly popular Cirque du Freak books, which no one older ...

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 ...

The first (and likely the last) cinematic adaptation of the popular Brit neck-biter series. Attempting to do for the vampire set what J.K. Rowling did for wizards, Darren Shan’s 12-book “Cirque du ...