It's getting downright batty trying to keep all these vampires straight. You have your traditional vampires ("Nosferatu"), your blond slayer foils ("Buffy: The Vampire Slayer"), your sexy vamps ("True ...

If there's one thing we learned from 2008's first film in the "Twilight" series, it's that vampire flicks don't have be bloody, gory messes. And if there's one thing to be learned by "Cirque du Freak: ...

The first (and likely the last) cinematic adaptation of the popular Brit neck-biter series. Attempting to do for the vampire set what J.K. Rowling did for wizards, Darren Shan’s 12-book “Cirque du ...

Salma Hayek as Madam Truska in 'Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant.' With a project such as "The Vampire's Assistant, " which is build around dark themes, it only bolsters the aesthetic texture.

"Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant" Movie Review-- Ever since the first Harry Potter film opened, studio executives have been busy alchemists, trying to turn lead into gold. Or, at least, ...

It’s getting downright batty trying to keep all these vampires straight. You have your traditional vampires (“Nosferatu”), your blond slayer foils (“Buffy: The Vampire Slayer”), your sexy vamps (“True ...

The first (and likely the last) cinematic adaptation of the popular Brit neck-biter series. Attempting to do for the vampire set what J.K. Rowling did for wizards, Darren Shan’s 12-book “Cirque du ...

John C. Reilly as a vampire? How can that not be funny? And it is funny, in a gentler, more unassuming way than you might expect from screenwriters Paul Weitz and Brian Helgeland, who've individually ...

Like the ominous fingernail moon early on in Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant, the bloodsucker trend is again in a waxing phase thanks to the mass cult followings of the Twilight saga and ...

You'd have to have been living under a rock for the past year not to have noticed the recent fascination for all things vampire and supernatural. From Harry Potter to Twilight, True Blood to Vampire ...

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