Earlier today, I went to the local AMC theater to watch the horror action-comedy Renfield...which I previously saw at a private movie screening last October!
Unsurprisingly, nothing changed in Renfield from what was shown at the test screening six months ago, as this was a satisfying flick where Nicolas Cage played one of the wackiest Draculas you'll ever see on the big screen!
Dracula's apprentice-turned-superhero Renfield was aptly portrayed by Nicholas Hoult, who seemed to have an affinity for playing classic horror creatures in modernized scary flicks. He previously portrayed a zombie who was a hopeless romantic with an existential crisis in the 2013 film, Warm Bodies.
As in 2021's Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Awkwafina played a comedic action role as Rebecca...a police officer who's more interested in bringing down a crime syndicate (which killed her father) than working mundane DUI checkpoints at busy city streets in the middle of the night.
Ben Schwartz went from voicing TAY-0 in Star Wars: The Bad Batch and Sonic in the last two live-action Sonic the Hedgehog movies to portraying Tedward Lobo—the arrogant son of a crime boss (Bellafrancesca Lobo, played by Shohreh Aghdashloo) bent on finding the guy who's been neutralizing the goons in their syndicate around the city. That, of course, would be Renfield.
Renfield had a lot of great comedic moments as well as crazy (and predictably gory) action scenes that you would almost see in a Tarantino film. From literally punching a guy's head off to effortlessly ripping the arms off a Lobo henchman, Renfield wasn't someone to trifle with—after he ate a bug or two to gain superhuman strength, that is.
But not to be outshone in Renfield was Nicolas Cage as Dracula! Cage clearly relished the idea of bringing his wacky acting style to this classic horror villain.
And having Renfield, with the help of Rebecca, clash with Dracula in the film's climax was obviously the most entertaining aspect of this movie. The fight that ensued at the end of this flick was what you get when Dracula didn't get a "handful of nuns or a busload of cheerleaders" to feed on by his jaded apprentice—who wanted to "get out of a toxic relationship."
Will we get a sequel to Renfield, you ask? Only its box office gross will tell... Carry on!
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