Harry Potter and ‘Vampire Academy’ Stars Officially Join Forces for Your Next Halloween Watch

Jason Isaacs playing a vampire should be enough to get a movie onto your Halloween watchlist. Add Kieron Moore, a sinister traveling carnival, and the filmmakers who brought us The Boy Behind the Door, and it becomes an especially tempting way to spend the holiday. Vampire Carnival is bringing all of that home on October 30, leaving horror fans just enough time to squeeze another vampire movie into their October plans.

Thanksgiving‘s Nell Verlaque stars as Gemma, a grieving young woman drawn to a mysterious carnival that arrives in her town. Isaacs plays Toussaint, while Moore takes on Eric, a role that puts the Vampire Academy actor back among the undead. Between the carnival setting and a cast with plenty of experience making trouble in supernatural worlds, directors David Charbonier and Justin Douglas Powell have an enticing setup for a Halloween watch.

During an interview with Collider’s Maggie Lovitt, Moore discussed getting into character, right down to learning how to speak with his new teeth. “I had to beat the lisp pretty quickly,” he admitted. “First put them in, I was like, ‘Oh no, like this is gonna be terrible.'” The fangs required some homework, too. “I was practicing in my room with the fangs, like I took them home.” The carnival offered a more welcoming introduction to the production, at least behind the scenes. “I love it when you don’t have to pretend in regard to the scenery,” Moore said. For anyone who grew up wanting to run away and join the show, his enthusiasm will sound familiar:

“As a kid, you’re either terrified of the carnival or you’re like, ‘I could do this,’ you know, ‘I could run away and be part of the show.'”

“As a kid, you’re either terrified of the carnival or you’re like, ‘I could do this,’ you know, ‘I could run away and be part of the show.'”

Clue went back into cinemas for its fortieth birthday with the three
endings handed out at random, which is a good reminder that the mystery film will try anything. Here
is yours, what it says about you, and the case for it being the best of the four.

You are the most fun thing in the room and you are not remotely
in control of it. Clue is a murder mystery built from a board game, played at farce speed by
one of the best comic ensembles ever assembled, and it refuses to commit to a single answer.

• You keep the energy up and the plan loose, and people have a much better evening because
  of it.
• Three different endings were sent to different cinemas in 1985, so the answer depended
  on which screen you walked into.
• It flopped completely, found its audience on video, and went back into cinemas for its
  fortieth anniversary with the endings randomised again.
• Your flaw is that chaos is excellent company and a terrible plan.

You watch, and you notice the thing everybody else walks past.
Hitchcock trapped James Stewart in one room with a broken leg and a view of his neighbours,
and built an entire thriller out of a man looking out of a window and being right.

• You are quietly the most observant person in your circle and you clock changes before
  anybody announces them.
• The courtyard was one of the largest sets ever built at Paramount, with thirty-one
  apartments and working plumbing.
• It was nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Director and is still taught as
  the cleanest thriller ever constructed.
• Your risk is that watching and doing something about it are not the same, and you know
  it.

You take things on and you do not put them down. Fincher made a
serial killer film where the detectives are losing the entire time, shot it so dark the
studio complained, and refused to change an ending that everybody told him would sink the
film.

• You are the one who keeps going after everybody else has accepted it cannot be solved.
• New Line wanted a different ending and Brad Pitt reportedly refused to make the film
  without the one they shot.
• It turned Fincher from the director who had a bad time on Alien 3 into the defining
  thriller director of his generation.
• Your weakness is that carrying something this long does real damage, and you are usually
  the last to notice.

Nobody can quite follow your thinking and you get there anyway.
Nolan told the story backwards, so the audience knows as little as the man at the centre of
it does, and the whole film becomes an argument about how much of what you believe you
simply decided to believe.

• You work things out sideways, and explaining the route takes longer than the answer did.
• It was nominated for Best Original Screenplay and Best Film Editing in 2002 and won
  neither, which still annoys people.
• It cost around nine million dollars, made over five times that, and built the career
  that led to everything after.
• Your flaw is trusting your own version of events slightly more than the evidence
  supports.

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