Teenager Darren Shan meets a mysterious man at a freak show who turns out to be a vampire. After a series of events, Darren must leave his normal life and go on the road with the Cirque du F... Read allTeenager Darren Shan meets a mysterious man at a freak show who turns out to be a vampire. After a series of events, Darren must leave his normal life and go on the road with the Cirque du Freak, becoming a creature of the night.Teenager Darren Shan meets a mysterious man at a freak show who turns out to be a vampire. After a series of events, Darren must leave his normal life and go on the road with the Cirque du Freak, becoming a creature of the night.
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- TriviaWhat drew John C. Reilly to play Larten Crepsley was "the fact that it was a real person, that he wasn't some supernatural mystical being that can turn into a vampire bat. The powers weren't so extreme that it was just another thing altogether, that this guy was a person who was alive in the 1800s who was essentially about my age. If you account the slow aging, he is forty something years old" he said.
- GoofsWhen Mr. Tiny tosses the Cirque du Freak flyer out of his car window, the date on it when Darren picks it up says April 13th, yet when he looks at it in class right after, the date is September 13th. When the flyer shows up at Darren's house with Mr. Tiny's message in red ink, the date is back to April 13th.
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Larten Crepsley: Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. I am so excited to be here in an anonymous small town which used to have character but is now just a bland suburb filled with chain stores and surrounded by slums.
[awkward silence in audience]
Larten Crepsley: It really is a pleasure to be here. And I am SO honored that bla, bla, bla and so on and so forth, et cetera, ad nauseam.
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Written by James Brown, Buddy Hobgood
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The Cirque du Freak referenced in the title was as the title states: a circus of freaks. They were more than just siamese twins and a bearded lady (though Salma Hayak played the most gorgeous bearded lady you'll ever see), they had a woman who could chew through metal (Kristen Schaal), a man with two stomachs (Frankie Faison), a woman who could regrow her limbs (Jane Krakowski), and a man with no midsection (Orlando Jones). More importantly there was Larsten Crepsley (John C. Reilly), the vampire.
Two best friends who could not have been more dissimilar, Steve (Josh Hutcherson) and Darren (Chris Massoglia), visited the Cirque du Freak. Steve, the angry, destructive, loner, requested to be made into a vampire while Darren didn't. Well, Darren became a vampire and Steve became a vampanese. What I gathered is that a vampanese is just a vampire that kills. The vampanese and vampires are mortal enemies which means that Steve and Darren would also become enemies. It was a setup that was all too obvious. What wasn't obvious was why the two boys were ever friends to begin with? Steve turned on his "best friend" very quickly and with little thought. Steve was inexplicably angry, distrustful, and violent. Maybe he had no concept of what "friend" meant, but we'll never know.
I didn't expect too much from this movie, but I also didn't expect Chris Massoglia to be another Hayden Christensen. His whiny monotone voice and blank unmoving face didn't make for an enjoyable watch. As the star of this movie he single handedly made the movie worse.
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- Cirque du Freak
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- $40,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $13,869,515
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $6,293,205
- Oct 25, 2009
- Gross worldwide
- $39,291,383
- Runtime1 hour 49 minutes
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- 2.35 : 1