Film Critic, Peter Travers, rails against ‘Circque Du Freak,’ ‘Amelia,’ and ‘Antichrist’. Films like these are pure trash and should be avoided like the swine flu.
With one weekend to go until Halloween, the cinematic fare entering movie theaters this Friday is frighteningly bad, and
Rolling Stone's Peter Travers tells you what to avoid like the plague this weekend *At the Movies*. Since we're closing in on October 31st, we'll kick it off this week with
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant, the movie adaptation of the 12-part British novel. Despite the presence of the always-great John C. Reilly, this movie is "lame." A boy goes to a freak show, gets bitten by a vampire and zaniness ensues. Between
True Blood and
Twilight, vampires are hot right now, but this movie is pure Scum Bucket. Since the movie only used the first three books of the series for this film,
Vampire's Assistant ends with a cliffhanger, but after this debacle of a film it's unlikely those sequels will ever be made.
Next is a film that was forecasted to be a major Oscar player,
Amelia, starring two-time winner Hilary Swank as the aviatrix Amelia Earhart.