Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant

Young Darren Shan looks like most of the kids in his suburban neighborhood. He spends a lot of time with his best friend, Steve, gets good grades, and usually stays out of trouble. But fate has a traveling circus cross paths with Darren and his friend, and something inside him begins to change. From that moment on, a vampire named Larten Crepsley (John C. Reilly) offers to become his mentor by joining the Cirque Du Freak, a show featuring monstrous creatures like the Snake Boy, a Wolfman, the bearded lady Madame Truska, and a giant ringmaster called Mr. Tall. Darren starts to make his mark in this new, dark world, but he soon becomes a coveted prey for vampires and their deadly enemies, the "vampaneze." In his fight for survival, he desperately tries to keep the looming war from devouring the little humanity he has left