Renfield (2023)

Directed by

Chris McKay

Genre

comedy horror, vampire film, comedy horror film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 33m

Rated

R

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 2,165 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Renfield is the long-suffering familiar to Count Dracula. After centuries of cleaning up his boss's messes, he decides he wants a life of his own.

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What happens

Renfield is a 2023 American comedy horror film, with some characteristics of an action film. Renfield was inspired by characters from Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula, as well as the 1931 Dracula feature film adaptation. Produced and directed by Chris McKay, Renfield features Nicholas Hoult as Renfield, and co-stars Awkwafina, Ben Schwartz, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Brandon Scott Jones, Adrian Martinez, and Nicolas Cage. The story follows Renfield who, after decades as a grueling servant for Count Dracula, seeks a new purpose in life. After the critical and commercial failure of the 2017 reboot of The Mummy, and subsequent fallout of a new Universal Monsters shared universe, Robert Kirkman pitched a reimagining of Dracula, leaning more into the comedic aspects of the story and focusing on the character of Renfield, produced through his company Skybound Entertainment. Dexter Fletcher was originally attached as director in 2019, but McKay eventually replaced him, working off the script by Ryan Ridley and Kirkman's original pitch. Much of Renfield's cast joined the production between August 2021 to January 2022, and filming took place from February to August 2022. Marco Beltrami composed the film's score. Renfield had its world premiere at the Overlook Film Festival on March 30, 2023, and was released in the United States on April 14, 2023 by Universal Pictures. The film received mixed reviews from film critics, and was considered a box-office bomb, grossing $26.9 million on a $65 million budget. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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