Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant – Movie Review

Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant is a movie about Darren Shan (Chris Massoglia), a teenager who with a friend attends a mysterious freak show where it turns out the freaks are really supernatural in nature. Through a course of events he winds up having to become the assistant to a vampire (John C. Reilly), becoming half-vampire himself in the process and joining the Cirque to save his best friend’s life. But his best friend may not be such a great person after all.
The movie is directed by Paul Weitz (American Pie, American Dreamz) and written by Weitz and Brian Helgeland (Salt, Conspiracy Theory). It is based on the first three booksof the Cirque du Freak
series of Young Adult books by Darren Shan.


