Renfield
The film opens with a flashback that shows how Renfield, an English lawyer, became the familiar of Dracula after meeting him in Transylvania for a real estate matter. Since then, Renfield has served his master for centuries, providing him with human victims and enduring his mistreatment and humiliation. However, Renfield also has a secret life: he has fallen in love with a woman from New Orleans, Lucy (Awkwafina), who believes him to be a normal human. When Dracula discovers Renfield’s relationship, he decides to move to New Orleans to seduce Lucy and destroy his rebellious henchman.
Renfield is a film that plays with the clichés of the vampire genre and twists them with irony and self-irony. The character of Renfield, played with skill by Nicholas Hoult, is a likable and unlucky antihero, who tries to free himself from the dependence on Dracula and find his place in the modern world. The character of Dracula, on the other hand, is an exaggerated and grotesque caricature of the classic vampire, played by a unleashed and over-the-top Nicolas Cage. The film has fun showing the differences between the two characters and their reactions to the events of the present.
The film also has some well-made action and violence scenes, which do not spare blood and cruelty. The film never takes itself seriously and tries to make the viewer laugh with sarcastic jokes and paradoxical situations. However, the film also has some obvious flaws: the plot is simple and linear, without great twists or surprises. The secondary characters are poorly developed and stereotyped. The ending is hasty and unconvincing.
Renfield is a film that can please horror comedy lovers and Nicolas Cage fans, but that does not fully meet the expectations created by its interesting starting point. The film could have been more original and deep if it had explored better the psychological dynamics between the protagonists and their relationship with the surrounding world.
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