(Cirque du Freak: The Vampires Assistant, based on a saga by Darren Shan)
Dear Fellow Twilighters,
(Listening to Brains by Voltaire right now; great for Halloween.)
***SPOILER ALERT***
Last night around 8pm-ish I went with my family to see the new movie Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant.
Wow! Where to start? This movie was super awesome and totally worthy of Stephenie's attention. This is sort of a more-fantasy-and-every-thing-goes type of movie. It didn't look fake at all (besides all the creatures and stuff, they could've been real), and if they did use CGI, than you could've fooled me because it looked as real as possible!
Ok, so the main character is this kid named Darren Shan (Chriss Massogila) who is obsessed with spiders, and his best friend is Steve (Josh Hutcherson) who is obsessed with vampires. They are complete opposites: goody-goody and bad boy. They find this flyer for a freak show that's coming to town, so they sneak out and pay them a visit. The last act happens to be a vampire and a deadly spider. Being the obsessed people they are, Darren goes to "borrow" the spider, Madam Octa, and Steve goes to confront Mr. Crepsly (John C. Rielly) , the vampire. Darren hides when Crepsly comes into his dressing room. Then Steve comes in and says that his life is so suckish and he wants to become a vampire.
Now, before we get any further, in this story there are two types of vamps. They follow all the tradition vamp. rules like, you can't go out in the sun, and you need human blood, etc. Actual Vampires (they don't kill their victims, just sedate them), and then the Vampinese (who kill the victims). There used to be this war between them and they made a treaty, but you know how that goes.
So, Steve gets out with his life, barely, and Darren finds a secret passage and gets picked up by Mr. Tiny (Michael Creveris)- Stranger Danger! He's the guy that wants a war to break out between the two groups of blood suckers, and gets a ride home. Darren barley escapes with his life as well.
The next day Darren takes Octa to school and Steve find out. Steve HATES spiders. Octa gets loose and scurries away to find an escape (or tries to at least) when the bell rigs and all the kids come running out of their class to get to their next period. Octa has like five near death encounters. Steve gets a broom and tries to kill her, but Octa bites him and Steve collapses.
So, by this time Steve is in the hospital and is dying. Darren gets up the courage and goes to see Crepsly for and antidote of some kind to save Steve. Crepsly agrees to give Darren the anti venom on one condition; Darren had to become his assistant as half vampire. Darren gives up his life and becomes immortal.
They get to the hospital, Crepsly gives Steve the cure, and then they think up of a way to fake Darren's funeral. After a farewell to his parents, Darren goes to Cirque du Freak and becomes part of the show, working backstage as a erring boy for Crepsly since he can't go out in the sun.
The Vampinese are always trying to turn Darren into one of them, but meanwhile, Steve found out somehow about Darren, and turns bad. Real bad. Vampinese bad in fact. There is a whole fight back at the theatre where the Freaks preform. Steve give an ultimatum to Darren about he can either turn Vampinese or die fighting Steve and the rest of the their Vampinese.
Of course, Darren stays solid 1/2 Vamp. and returns to Cirque du Freak. Oh, and there is this monkey girl (she only has a tail, and that's her monkey-ness) that Darren fall for, and they kiss. Awe! So cute!
The end... for now. Since this is a saga there probably will be more movies out of the books. I personally haven't read them since I only just found out about the movie and am in another series (Percy Jackson and the Olympians series by Rick Riordan; I'm on book three, The Titan's Curse) at the moment. I encourage you to go and see for yourself. I gave the movie/book no justice in this summary.
Finally, I give the movie 4 out of 5 fangs just because it was a little dark for me and there was scary images, so it might not be appropriate for younger children (but neither is Twilight so yeah...). I loved this movie and I definitely want to get it when they release it on DVD. I can honestly say it is one of my favorites.
Happy Halloween, and be safe if you go Trick-orTreating tonight.
