Renfield stars Nicolas Cage and Nicolas Hoult
American action comedy horror film directed and produced by Chris McKay and written by Ryan Ridley.
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2/11/202412 min read
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Renfield is a horror-comedy film with an average rating of 5.8/10 on Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic, CinemaScore, and PostTrak. It has been given three out of five stars by Tim Robey, Amy Nicholson, Kevin Maher, Alison Willmore, and Peter Travers. Accolades include Best Comedy Poster at the 2023 Golden Trailer Awards and Best Supporting Actor for Nicolas Cage at the 51st Saturn Awards. Renfield is a 2023 American action comedy horror film directed and produced by Chris McKay and written by Ryan Ridley from a story by Robert Kirkman. It stars Nicholas Hoult, Awkwafina, Ben Schwartz, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Brandon Scott Jones, Adrian Martinez, and Nicolas Cage. The film received mixed reviews from critics, but grossed $26.7 million worldwide against its budget of $65 million, making it a box office flop.
Cast and Characters:
Nicholas Hoult as R.M. Renfield
The Renfield cast is led by Nicholas Hoult, who plays Dracula's loyal henchman, Renfield. Hoult got his breakthrough as a child actor with the lead role of Marcus Brewer opposite Hugh Grant in 2002's About a Boy. His best-known recurring characters are Tony Stonem in the teen dramedy series Skins and Beast in the X-Men prequels. He also played Tyler in 2022's The Menu, Nux in 2015's Mad Max: Fury Road, and zombie love interest R in 2012's Warm Bodies. Hoult is also known for playing historical figures like Lord of the Rings writer J.R.R. Tolkien in the 2019 biopic Tolkien and Peter III in the Hulu series The Great.
Nicolas Cage as Count Dracula
Renfield’s narcissistic boss Dracula, a self-centered, hot-headed vampire from Transylvania, is played by Nicolas Cage. Cage is a versatile movie star who has played a wide range of characters, from action heroes like Cameron Poe in 1997's Con Air and Castor Troy in 1997's Face/Off; he has also taken comedic roles like H.I. McDunnough in 1987's Raising Arizona and a satirical version of himself in 2022's The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of writer Ben Sanderson in 1995's Leaving Las Vegas and scored a second nomination for playing twin brothers Charlie and Donald Kaufman in 2002's Adaptation.
Awkwafina as Rebecca Quincy
Awkwafina appears in the Renfield cast as Rebecca Quincy, a traffic cop in New Orleans and Renfield’s love interest. Awkwafina started out creating her own content on YouTube. She got her breakthrough with the hugely popular comedy rap song “My Vag” and went on to play such film roles as Goh Peik Lin in 2018's Crazy Rich Asians, Billi Wang in 2019's The Farewell, and the eponymous Marvel superhero’s best friend Katy in 2021's Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. Awkwafina stars in her own semi-autobiographical Comedy Central series, Awkwafina is Nora from Queens, which she also co-created, writes, and executive-produces.
Ben Schwartz as Teddy Lobo
Mob enforcer Teddy Lobo is played by Ben Schwartz. Schwartz is most famous for his TV roles as Jean-Ralphio Saperstein in Parks and Recreation and Clyde Oberholt in House of Lies. He voiced the title characters in Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja and the Sonic the Hedgehog movies, as well as Rutabaga Rabitowitz in BoJack Horseman and Leonardo in Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Schwartz also played Yasper in the Apple murder mystery series The Afterparty, F. Tony Scarapiducci in the Netflix workplace comedy Space Force, and Rabbi Charles “Boner” Grodner in This is Where I Leave You.
Adrian Martinez as Chris Marcos
Adrian Martinez has a supporting role in the Renfield cast as Chris Marcos, Quincy’s co-worker, a fellow traffic cop. Martinez is recognizable as the “Discount Double Check” guy from Aaron Rodgers’ State Farm commercials. He also played Hernando in the 2013 fantasy drama The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Farhad in the 2015 crime caper Focus, Big Dave in the 2012 creature feature Piranha 3DD, and Officer Harris in the 2015 Tina Fey/Amy Poehler comedy Sisters. Martinez is one of the few on-screen actors alongside Jake Gyllenhaal in 2021's Netflix’s tense procedural thriller The Guilty in the role of Manny.
Shohreh Aghdashloo as Bella
Bella, a notorious mob boss and one of Renfield’s main villains, is played by Shohreh Aghdashloo. Aghdashloo has also played Dr. Kavita Rao in 2006's X-Men: The Last Stand, Dr. Sadira Adani in 2005's The Exorcism of Emily Rose, and Commodore Paris in 2016's Star Trek Beyond. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Nadereh Behrani in 2003's House of Sand and Fog. Aghdashloo is also known for her TV roles as Dina Araz in 24 season 4 and the starring role of Chrisjen Avasarala in The Expanse.
Brandon Scott Jones as Mark
Mark, the leader of Renfield’s support group, is played by Brandon Scott Jones. Jones has also played Captain Isaac Higgintoot in Ghosts on CBS and is known for his supporting roles in the Netflix original movies Senior Year (which he co-wrote), in which he played Mr. T, and Isn’t It Romantic, in which he played Donny.
Jenna Kanell as Carol
Carol, a member of Renfield’s support group, is played by Jenna Kanell. Kanell is known for other horror roles like Tara Heyes in the Terrifier series and Kim Hansen in 2017's The Bye Bye Man. She also branched out into other genres to play Ginny Terzano in the political drama The Front Runner and Med Tech Webb in episode 5 of the iconic MCU superhero miniseries: WandaVision.
Bess Rous as Caitlyn
Another member of the support group, Caitlyn. Rous previously played the ghost of Gertrude Aldridge in the 2016 Ghostbusters reboot, as well as lead TV roles like Karen Lipinski in Other Space (from Ghostbusters director Paul Feig) and Ivana West in Murder in the First season 1.
James Moses Black as Captain J. Browning
James Moses Black appears in the Renfield cast as Captain J. Browning. Black is also known for playing Brother Jamal in two episodes of Snowfall, Reverend Hawley in two episodes of This is Us, and the recurring role of Donald Simms, the Director of National Intelligence, in 24: Legacy.
Caroline Williams as Vanessa
Vanessa is played by Caroline Williams in Renfield. Williams is known for playing Vanita “Stretch” Brock in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise. She also played the minor roles of a Who in How the Grinch Stole Christmas and Jennie Burns in the Tom Cruise NASCAR movie Days of Thunder.
Movie Plot:
At a support group for people in abusive relationships, the movie opens. Robert Montague Renfield (Nicholas Houl) is one of them. He returns us to the start of his story. Hundreds of years prior, he was a legal counselor set to make an arrangement with a count that would enormously help Renfield's loved ones. Dracula (Nicolas Cage), the Prince of Darkness, was the count in question. In the wake of ending up a valuable partner, Dracula made Renfield his familiar, permitting him to be godlike and acquiring super strength and speed when he consumes bugs.
Hunters show up occasionally to attempt to kill Dracula, however the Count persuades Renfield that he would be detained for aiding him assuming Dracula were killed. Dracula's salt ring is broken by Renfield, allowing him to become smoke and cause a priest to blow into chunks. Dracula goes for the other tracker yet is presented to daylight, making him consume and permitting him to immerse the tracker on fire until Renfield puts the fire out. They then, at that point, need to migrate ceaselessly to lose different trackers, and Renfield carries them to New Orleans until Dracula can come back to full power. Renfield has become fatigued and depleted of bringing casualties for his lord.
One of the ladies from the care group, Caitlyn (Bess Rous), talks about her addict sweetheart, Mitch (Dave Davis). Renfield concludes that he would regret conveying crooks to Dracula rather than blameless people. He tracks down Mitch and his thugs at a distribution center, where he takes out two of them, however Mitch is killed by a hired gunman named Apache Joe (Marcus Lewis). Renfield gets cut across the stomach by Joe, however at that point he consumes a bug and uses his solidarity to punch Joe's head off his shoulders, sending it flying toward the vehicle of neighborhood criminal Teddy Lobo (Ben Schwartz). Teddy runs away from the area.
Official Rebecca Quincy (Awkwafina) and her accomplice Chris (Adrian Martinez) are doing intoxicated driving checks when Teddy drives close to the scene. Rebecca remembers him, and since he has a lot of cocaine in his vehicle, Teddy starts to drive away. Rebecca shoots out his tires, so he begins running until she throws her baton at his head to take him out.
Unfortunately, the Lobos gang hires a competent lawyer to get Teddy out of jail before he can reveal the operations of his criminal family. The case is private to Rebecca in light of the fact that the Lobos killed her dad, who was a decorated captain on the force . Her sister Kate (Camille Chen) works for the FBI and furthermore needs to bring the Lobos down, however she reminds Rebecca they should be proficient and not let their indignation get the better of them.
Renfield brings Mitch's friends and Joe's headless body to a horrifyingly weak and decaying-looking Dracula, but he turns them down because they are addicts. He asks Renfield to bring him innocents like cheerleaders or nuns. Dracula cuts Renfield where Joe cut him, nearly eviscerating him prior to giving him his blood, which has mending properties.
Teddy gets back to his mom, Bella (Shohreh Aghdashloo), head of the Lobos posse. She advises Teddy that they need to dispose of Rebecca before she can bring down their activity.
Renfield goes to a nearby restaurant to hesitantly investigate honest people, similarly as Rebecca and Chris show up since a pen they found at a crime location (that Renfield used to wound Joe) came from a similar café. Teddy and his fellow Lobos goons make an appearance to kill Rebecca. They come in firearms bursting, and Teddy compromises Rebecca, however she advises him to pull the trigger before she at any point concludes to do what he says. She then makes fun of Teddy and says that he probably hasn't shot anyone. Rebecca gets a chance to fight when Renfield eats a fly and tackles Teddy. Lobos are all killed when Renfield sever their limbs and stabs them with forks, with the exception of Teddy, who escapes. Rebecca says thanks to Renfield for his assistance, and he appears to be smitten with her.
Renfield returns to his sanctuary, where Dracula has claimed some victims to slightly restore his regular form. He then shows Renfield that he intends to rule the world once he develops to full power, wanting to make a multitude of familiars to do his offering.
Renfield gets back to the group session where he discusses his relationship with Dracula, basically referring to him as his Boss. In order to improve his life away from Dracula, the group encourages Renfield to look for his own apartment and find his own happiness.
Rebecca gets every one of the witnesses from the restaurant to give testimonies, however she realizes that there are bad police on the power that are on the Lobos' finance, so they have been altering proof. Renfield shows up with a flower arrangement for Rebecca and a testimony. Later, she gives Kate the bloody pen to process as evidence.
Bella sends Teddy and the other Lobos to pursue Renfield. They end up at the den, where Dracula crunches on every one of them aside from Teddy. Dracula feels betrayed by his assistant and becomes enraged when he reveals that he is there for Renfield.
Dracula appears at Renfield's condo, entering because he has a welcome mat in front of the door. He rebukes Renfield for leaving him and and trying to be independent. Dracula additionally lets him know he's the real monster for leaving his wife and little girl to become his assistant. Renfield attempts to utilize strategies from a book given to him at the care group, yet Dracula takes it and sees the sticker uncovering the area of the congregation where the gathering meets. Renfield pursues him.
Renfield races to the church to warn the group and get them out, yet when Dracula shows up, group leader Mark (Brandon Scott Jones) mistakenly invites the Count inside. He reveals himself to the gathering before proceeding to butcher everybody and feed off them. He insults Renfield prior to leaving, and Rebecca and Chris show up minutes after the fact, capturing Renfield for accepting he killed everybody.
As Rebecca removes Renfield in binds, a lot of cop vehicles pulls up alongside Bella and the Lobos, validating Rebecca's premonitions that the police are working with the crooks, including Chris and Captain Browning (James Moses Dark). Browning attempts to persuade Rebecca to go along with them, however she shoots a transformer to divert everybody and take a risk to escape with Renfield. Rebecca escapes after being shot in the shoulder.
Renfield carries Rebecca to his condo to stow away. He remains handcuffed so she can trust him, and he admits that he worked for Dracula for a really long time. Kate then calls Rebecca, confirming that the pen's DNA has been linked to decades' worth of murders worldwide.
Renfield and Rebecca continue to leave the apartment, however SWAT team of corrupt cops starts to storm the complex to get them. Renfield eats subterranean insects and continues to obliterate the police, destroying them, tearing them appendage from appendage, stepping heads, ripping a man's go head to head, and in any event, piercing two men with cut off arms. Despite her horror, Rebecca is thankful to have been saved.
Dracula gets back to Teddy and agrees to join forces with the Lobos to assist the Count with hoarding a military for his arrangements for world conquest. Teddy brings Dracula to meet his mom, where he beheads Browning and reveals himself to Bella, who is dazzled.
Renfield and Rebecca are outside in broad daylight as Renfield enlightens her concerning his past and how he laments leaving his better half and little girl behind when he needed to help himself for the most part. Dracula then clairvoyantly speaks with Renfield to insult him while Rebecca attempts to call Kate, just to have Bella reply. She lets Rebecca know that they have Kate, so she and Renfield arm themselves and prepare to take on Dracula and the Lobos.
The two show up at the Lobos building and track down that Teddy and the other Lobos have been transformed into familiars with superpowers. While Renfield fights the Lobos, killing all of them until Teddy is the only one left, Rebecca rushes to find Kate. Teddy flaunts about his powers however Renfield lets him know it's a revile. Teddy nearly beats him great until Renfield snatches a bug and eats it. He kicks Teddy so hard that he regurgitates blood and viciously poops himself to death.
Rebecca finds that Kate is already dead, being severely beaten by the Lobos. Dracula attempts to persuade her to join him so he can use his blood to revive Kate. Renfield arrives to witness, and keeping in mind that Rebecca seems able to go along with, she simply attempts to open the blinds to open Dracula to daylight. He transforms into bats and takes off until the couple makes up for lost time to him. He knocks Renfield out and tries to kill Rebecca, but Rebecca shoots Dracula in the foot, causing him to bleed on Renfield and giving him the boost he needs. Dracula then tries to kill Rebecca. Renfield tears out Dracula's teeth and crushes his face in. Rebecca then, at that point, traps the Count in a ring of cocaine in the wake of saying the spell. Renfield and Rebecca then, at that point, continue to whip him almost to death prior to destroying him and discarding his remaining parts in concrete and tossing them into a sewer.
Kate is revived by using Dracula's blood, and Rebecca and she arrest Bella. The sisters then believe that by apprehending his killer, they made their father proud.
Renfield later purposes Dracula's blood to restore the care group, who are appreciative yet in addition damaged by being dead. Renfield and Rebecca are now close friends and he plans for new life as a free man.
Movie Reviews: Renfield stars Nicolas Cage and Nicolas Hoult
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