In honor of Circus Month, Dan and Brian revisit the maligned and forgotten teen film, Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant. Join as they ponder the long tail of post-Harry Potter and post-Twilight franchise attempts sourced from young adult books, the glorious weirdness of titular freak show, the utter blandness of Darren Shan, the incomprehensible plot, and the film's various other highs and lows. Opinions are mixed, and Dan has some proposed rewrites, but history is made during the Is It Good section.
Music credits:
RetroFuture Clean by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4277-retrofuture-clean
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005) - The boys are Black in town
Conversation with Ben Stanley, the man who has seen 130+ Christmas Carols
Modern-Day Scrooges - 4 Christm4s C4rol, Part 4
Parenthood (1989) - Thanks, Dad
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1990) ft. Gargus - The play’s the thing
The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) - Bone daddy
Trick ’r Treat (2007) - Halloween OSHA
Nightmare (1991) / Pops Ghostly (1987) - VHS game night with The Goods
The Haunting (1963) - Floorboards and walls and things of that ilk
The Halloween Tree (1993) - Did Pip write this?
The Craft (1996) - She’s the Manon
The Disaster Artist (2017) - One or two more stupid comments
The Room (2003) - Oh hai listeners
Mulholland Dr. (2001) - Gotta have a goblin
Plan 9 from Outer Space (1957) / Ed Wood (1994) - Plan 139 from The Goods
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004) / Asteroid City (2023) - Schrödinger’s Glock
8 1/2 (1963) & Pee-wee’s Big Adventure (1985) - The beautiful confusion
A Star is Born (1937/1954/1976/2018) - Gonna shout it from the mountaintops
Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation (1989) - Digging deep
Sullivan’s Travels (1941) / Party Down (2010) - Preston Sturges’ birthday party
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