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/
Summertime (1955) - Venice in Technicolor
Boogie Nights (1997) - A different kind of elephant man
Beach Party (1963) - Horny on main
The Care Bears Movie (1985) - Good vibes only
The Elephant Man (1980) - Prostheses galore
The Circus (1928) - Monkeys are funny
The Greatest Showman (2017) - Hanging with the freaks
Paper Towns (2015) - The fault in our eyebrows
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (1953) - I want my organdy snood
The Iron Giant (1999) - Brad Bird-thday vibe
Tokyo Drifter (1966) feat. Will - Japanecdotes
Tourist Trap (1998) - Sliding scale of Stork villainy
American Graffiti (1973) - Kiss a duck, marble head
My Octopus Teacher (2020) - Manic pixie dream cephalopod
It Happened One Night (1934) - The love bus
Now You See Me (2013) - Now we've seen them
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie (1995) - You ooze, you lose
A Night to Remember (1958) / Titanic (1997) - Titanicdotes
Godzilla (1954) - Monsters are attacking Tokyo!
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