NicolasCage makes a perfect Dracula in horror-comedy renfieldmovie while NicholasHoult shines as Dracula's put-upon henchman Renfield
In 1988's"Vampire's Kiss," he played a New York literary agent who thought he was an immortal bloodsucker. His bug-eyed performance was essentially the birth of the over-the-top, Kabuki-inflected mythology of Cage. Years later, it would launch a thousand memes -- a kind of digital version of becoming undead.
It seems that Dracula is enjoying his bloodthirsty ways much more than his henchman Renfield in"Renfield." - Courtesy of Universal Pictures That's no discredit to Nicholas Hoult, who plays Bram Stoker's devoted henchman to Dracula in Chris McKay's"Renfield.
Nicolas Cage makes for a perfect Dracula in"Renfield." - Courtesy of Universal Pictures Vampires have been in vogue for some time, but usually in more extrapolated interpretations with greater sympathies for vampires -- elegant, sexy or childlike -- as worldly outsiders. Edging closer to Dracula, himself, has been rarer, and it's probably a sign of the lesser, shlocky ambitions of"Renfield" that he still remains off to the side.
Renfield , who's tired of being Dracula's lackey, tries to help traffic cop Rebecca Quincy in"Renfield." - Courtesy of Universal Pictures Yet"Renfield" oddly gravitates away from tapping this rich vein to instead consume the New Orleans-set film with not just R.M.'s bid for personal freedom but a busy plot involving a local crime family and police corruption.
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