You aren't ready for Nicolas Cage as Dracula in Renfield. Striking that special balance between terror and camp, it is a delight to watch from minute one. Our review:
Anyone who knows what’s good for them knows exactly why they want to see Chris McKay’s Renfield. The appeal of Nicolas Cage, a magnanimous star most of us grew up with, playing the Prince of Darkness is sure to excite anyone, horror fan or not. It’s a promise that feels exactly as outlandish as one would expect from someone like Nic Cage, and on that alone the film seems determined to propel itself, leaning harder into that than even the star power of its lead, Nicholas Hoult.
COLLIDER VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Director McKay seems to understand that special balance between terror and camp, and it’s that which makes Renfield, which premiered this week at the Overlook Film Festival, such a delight to watch. From minute one, star Hoult is at his best as Dracula’s faithful servant Robert Montague Renfield, who’s been saddled with the worst kind of indentured servitude for the last hundred years or so.
While some of the set pieces feel fairly underdeveloped — imagine me looking pointedly at everything Awkwafina was given — it’s Hoult and Cage’s partnership that fuels the film and keeps you hooked, particularly when things begin to go south.
Ben Schwartz proves to be a phenomenal scene stealer as well as the bumbling crime lord Teddy Lobo who puts up a front like he isn’t half as pathetic as he really is. What little scenery isn’t being chewed to bits by Cage and Hoult is fervently chomped on in his part, rounding out the trifecta this film needed to carry its specific brand of comedy.
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