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Sixteen-year-old Darren (Chris
Massoglia) is your typical adolescent; he spends most of his time with his best
friend, Steve (Josh Hutcherson), earns decent grades, and generally manages to
stay out of trouble. But trouble finds Darren when he and Steve make the
acquaintance of a vampire named Larten Crepsley (John C. Reilly) while attending
a traveling freak show at a local theater. Transformed into a bloodsucker by
Crepsley, Darren joins the Cirque Du Freak and quickly ingratiates himself with
the unusual cast of characters who populate it, including Madame Truska the
Bearded Lady (Salma Hayek) and the traveling sideshow's towering barker (Ken
Watanabe). As Darren works to master his newfound powers as a budding member of
the supernatural underworld, he becomes a valued pawn between the vampires and
their deadlier rivals, the Vampaneze. With tensions between the two sects
intensifying, Darren must figure out a means of keeping the coming war from
destroying his last vestige of humanity.
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