

Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
Meet Darren. He's sixteen going on immortal.
When Darren Shan is taken to a circus that's chock-full of sideshow oddities, he meets a vampire and receives a life-changing bite on the neck.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $40M
- Box office
- $28.2M
- Language
- English
- based on novel or book
- vampire
- spider
- wolfman
- best friend
- antidote
- based on young adult novel
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United States of America
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalPG-1323 Oct 2009
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical12A23 Oct 2009
AustriaAT
- Digital / OTT127 Jan 2010
BelgiumBE
- Theatrical1423 Oct 2009
BrazilBR
- Theatrical29 Nov 2009
DenmarkDK
- Theatrical1113 Jul 2010
FranceFR
- TheatricalU2 Dec 2009
GermanyDE
- Theatrical126 Jan 2010
HungaryHU
- Digital / OTT1622 Oct 2009
IrelandIE
- Digital / OTT1223 Oct 2009
ItalyIT
- Theatrical7 May 2010
JapanJP
- Digital / OTTR18+19 Mar 2010
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Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant was released on 23 October 2009.
Audience reviews
3- T5/10
talisencrw
4/13/2016
From watching John C. Reilly over the years, in everything from 'Hoffa' and 'Dolores Claiborne' when he was developing his craft, to 'Step Brothers' and 'Carnage', in which he was one of the leading actors that the film was centered on, I really wanted this film to work for me, though I feel in this recent glut of cinema spawned from Hollywood's post-'Twilight' obsession with vampires, that someone really needs to gi…
- D7/10
Dark Jedi
2/12/2017
I found this movie pretty much by accident when flicking through the Netflix catalogue. I thought what the heck and started to watch it. My hopes were really not that high. Actually I am not sure I had any hopes at all since I just stumbled on the movie and started to watch it on a whim. What I found was a rather okay and fun movie actually. The movie is apparently based on popular book series Cirque du Freak by D…
- W7/10
Wuchak
6/6/2018
A teen joins a freak circus where he encounters a war between vampires RELEASED IN 2009 and directed by Marco Brambilla, "Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant" is a fantasy/horror/comedy about a teen (Chris Massoglia) who is compelled to join a circus of freaks where he becomes (you guessed it) the assistant of a vampire (John C. Reilly) and learns of a war between two classes of vampires. Josh Hutcherson is o…
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