I’m gonna try this – bear with me – as I try and post a video each day :) Will be completely random, and just for fun ^^;
I’ll start off my VideOftheDay (cool title, no?) with the most recent Vampire movie to hit the big screen – Cirque du Freak. Perfect for Halloween, eh? :P
I actually saw this today (well, it was the 30th, but whatever) and really enjoyed it. You’ll find Cirque du Freak appear on my “Now Reading” section pretty quick. The character development really sucked (and I mean really) but it had the action that I was dying for, and there are… VAMPIRES! I absolutely love vampires.
Warning: Spoilers start here. I’m not gonna give away the ending, but if you want to see it, I tell how it all gets set up, and it will kinda ruin the surprise.
We start off at Darren’s funeral. But he’s not quite dead. He’s playing on his cellphone as the dirt is piled on his coffin. …wtf, right?
Okay, so what it’s about – basically, Darren is a goody-good, and his BFF Steve is bad-boy. The movie starts out with Steve convincing Darren to skip class, and they break lights. Darren gets in trouble, parents go psycho (he’s ruining his life by hanging out with Steve) and they ground him for 2 months. Not to mention that they say he can’t hang around with Steve anymore. So Steve went from BFF to Secret BFF. Poor guy.
But they are given a poster for a freak circus in town – the Cirque du Freak – and decide to sneak out to see it. And here’s where it gets interesting. One of the performers is a vampire and has this awesome spider. Darren loves spiders, Steve loves vampires. So when Darren goes to steal the spider (!) Steve asks vampire to turn him – and is turned down.
Darren sees all this, but gets away with the spider anyways. So when he brings the lovely thing to school, and Steve sees… well, it all goes down the shitter. Steve gets bitten by highly poisonous spider, and the only way the Big Bad Vampire will give Darren the antidote is if he agrees to go half-vampire himself, and become an assistant (hence “The Vampire’s Assistant as this movie’s title). Well, Darren goes for it…
And then, it’s full circle – time to die. Now the fun begins.