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Based on early 1930s genre-defining hits (such as Tod Browning’s Dracula with Bela Lugosi or James Whale Frankenstein starring Boris Karloff), Universal Pictures’ monster movie tradition has struggled in recent decades. Despite swapping out tons of Halloween merchandise every year, Universal had to compete with royalty-free releases of other creators’ creature creators. In-house attempts to revive their main monsters have yielded items ranging from disappointing to disastrous like Van Helsing and the latest remake of The Mummy (which captured an MCU-like “Dark Universe” on the launch pad). They finally connected with the legacy by presenting a new vision of an old demon with Leigh Whannell. The invisible man, reinventing the transparent black man as the ultimate toxic male ex-boyfriend. by Chris McKay Renfield takes a bigger, more high-profile villain off the shelf and makes Dracula (Nicolas Cage) the worst boss in the world, and Renfield (Nicholas Hoult) a minion trapped in a codependent relationship with the Prince of Darkness.

Dracula is clearly a totem for McKay, who introduced the vampire to both of them robotic chicken television series and the lego batman movieAND Renfield is imbued with a love of the great horror lore. An opening explanatory montage of Hoult and Cage Photoshopped by Dwight Frye and Bela Lugosi in 1931 Dracula footage, positioning it as the first true sequel since Dracula’s daughter (1935). Hoult makes Frye’s unforgettable hissing Renfield laugh once or twice, and the beginning of Swan Lake – Who opens Dracula – merges into a loaded score. Meanwhile, Cage pays homage to Lugosi’s performance by sporting a shark-tooth (and top-hat) look from Browning’s previous vampire film. London after midnight, in which Lon Chaney created a very different kind of predator. After decades of vampires falling into the categories of doomed romantics or savage drug addicts, Cage presents us with a Dracula who is evil on every level: petty, sarcastic and manipulative with his battered henchman and grandiose when he contemplates himself. New Orleans. . crime family and take over the world.

The blend of Renfield it’s quite eclectic. Along with classic horror pastiche and workplace dark comedy, it is an action film that features the heroic bloodshed of the 70s. street fighter movies or even recent ones Raid Images. Hoult is basically kind, but deadly Renfield (Dracula’s blood gives him super fighting powers) bonds with the only honest cop in Awkwafina to take on the Lobo crime cartel, led by Shohreh Aghdashloo, with Ben Schwartz as son number one. and the entrenched corruption of his colleagues even before they faced Dracula. It’s a comedic horror orgy, with plenty of bad guys torn apart, but it occasionally stops for poignant moments about the life Renfield lost by submitting to his master, and unusual twists on vampire lore. Cage, who ate a real cockroach while playing vampire kissHe’s obviously waited his whole life for this gig and chews every bite he’s given, but Hoult and Awkwafina deliver the heart of the film.