Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
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Peter Bradshaw finds that tales of adolescent blood suckers are beginning to pall
- Peter Bradshaw
- guardian.co.uk, Thursday 22 October 2009
Another week, another tale of adolescent blood-sucking, neck-chomping folk. This one's based on the first of the Vampire Blood Trilogy, a bestselling teen fantasy-adventure by Irish author Darren Shan. Chris Massoglia plays Darren and Josh Hutcherson is his friend Steve, two high-school friends who are intrigued by the arrival in their boring small town of the so-called "Cirque du Freak". They show up to this creepy freak show, and get drawn into a secret world of vampires and weirdos - and Darren enters the eternal night of vampirehood, populated by exotic exquisites played by John C Reilly, Willem Dafoe and Salma Hayek as a bearded lady whose any-time-o'clock shadow sprouts when she is in a state of emotional turmoil. Tod Browning's Freaks were the real thing. These are strictly CGI and the teen-vamp pose is beginning to pall.