Renfield (2023)

My quick rating - 6.5/10. Having grown sick and tired of his centuries as Dracula's lackey, Renfield finds a new lease on life — and maybe even redemption — when he falls for feisty, perennially angry traffic cop Rebecca Quincy. I am so glad they didn't soften this one up to get a PG rating. Chris McKay, behind the camera, made sure to use the blood in abundance to make sure all the kills were definite. Nicolas Cage playing Dracula was perfectly cast and quite amusing, although I did wish he got a bit more screen time. This one just has fun written all over it. Nicholas Hoult plays Renfield, who is more like Dracula's right-hand man, but instead of just being his lackey, he realizes he wants more than just that and to break away from Dracula's control. This dawns on him when he stumbles across saving a detective played by Awkwafina in a well-choreographed shootout between a local crime gang and police. As with all the action scenes in this one, each looks very good in a comic book way while being violent as can be, spewing blood in all directions. Since Dracula wants to stay a bad guy, this newfound hero behavior doesn't fit into his plan, so we have the good versus evil plot set up for you to sit back and just enjoy. The comedy is mostly deadpan humor, being either a violent joke or just a one-liner tossed in to keep the mood light-hearted. It is too bad they weren't a bit more strategic in their opening, since coming a week before Evil Dead Rise most likely hurt the box office potential, but I am sure it'll do well on VOD since it is a very entertaining flick that is worth checking out.

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Renfield (2023)

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