Renfield
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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.
What critics thought
Critics landed in mixed territory on this horror-comedy, largely agreeing that the premise is more promising than the film that results from it. The small comedic moments tend to land, but most reviewers felt the story stretched too thin across its runtime, with the action formula overwhelming any real emotional or satirical payoff.
“The small gags are great, the overall story arc is weak—particularly a quasi-romantic subplot where a cop (Awkwafina) challenges Renfield to turn from heel to hero”
Amy Nicholson·The Wall Street Journal
“It fulfils the basic requirements of a beat-'em-up formula established by Buffy and Blade, but that's it. To get any further, we'd have wanted a real sharpening of the emotional stakes.”
Tim Robey·The Daily Telegraph
“a gore-splattered, consistently tiresome, one-joke movie that could only have been pitched in a Hollywood development meeting as, you know, 'It's fucking Dracula!”
Kevin Maher·The Times
“what started as a clever, contemporary spin on the Dracula myth gets swallowed up into a quicksand of cartoonishly repetitive, R-rated action cliches that make Renfield seem too long at a scant 93 minutes.”
Peter Travers·ABC News
Parents guide
- Violence
- severe
- Sex
- none
- Profanity
- severe
- Substances
- mild
- Intensity
- moderate
Genres
Action, Comedy, Fantasy
Cast & Crew
Chris McKayDirector
Nicholas HoultRenfield
Nicolas CageDracula
AwkwafinaRebecca
Ben SchwartzTedward Lobo
Shohreh AghdashlooBellafrancesca Lobo
Brandon Scott JonesMark
Adrian MartinezChris
Camille ChenKate
Bess RousCaitlyn
Jenna KanellCarol
Danya LaBelleKarla
Rhonda Johnson DentsSharon
Marco BeltramiComposer
Ryan RidleyWriter
Mitchell AmundsenCinematographyRenfield
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.
What critics thought
Critics landed in mixed territory on this horror-comedy, largely agreeing that the premise is more promising than the film that results from it. The small comedic moments tend to land, but most reviewers felt the story stretched too thin across its runtime, with the action formula overwhelming any real emotional or satirical payoff.
“The small gags are great, the overall story arc is weak—particularly a quasi-romantic subplot where a cop (Awkwafina) challenges Renfield to turn from heel to hero”
Amy Nicholson·The Wall Street Journal
“It fulfils the basic requirements of a beat-'em-up formula established by Buffy and Blade, but that's it. To get any further, we'd have wanted a real sharpening of the emotional stakes.”
Tim Robey·The Daily Telegraph
“a gore-splattered, consistently tiresome, one-joke movie that could only have been pitched in a Hollywood development meeting as, you know, 'It's fucking Dracula!”
Kevin Maher·The Times
“what started as a clever, contemporary spin on the Dracula myth gets swallowed up into a quicksand of cartoonishly repetitive, R-rated action cliches that make Renfield seem too long at a scant 93 minutes.”
Peter Travers·ABC News
Parents guide
- Violence
- severe
- Sex
- none
- Profanity
- severe
- Substances
- mild
- Intensity
- moderate
Genres
Action, Comedy, Fantasy
Cast & Crew
Chris McKayDirectorNicholas HoultRenfieldNicolas CageDraculaAwkwafinaRebeccaBen SchwartzTedward LoboShohreh AghdashlooBellafrancesca LoboBrandon Scott JonesMarkAdrian MartinezChrisCamille ChenKateBess RousCaitlynJenna KanellCarolDanya LaBelleKarlaRhonda Johnson DentsSharonMarco BeltramiComposerRyan RidleyWriterMitchell AmundsenCinematographyStream
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