Renfield

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	Nicholas Hoult	Renfield
	Nicolas Cage	Dracula
	Awkwafina	Rebecca
	Ben Schwartz	Tedward Lobo
	Shohreh Aghdashloo	Bellafrancesca Lobo
	Brandon Scott Jones	Mark
	Adrian Martinez	Chris
	Camille Chen	Kate
	Bess Rous	Caitlyn
	Jenna Kanell	Carol
	Danya LaBelle	Karla
	Rhonda Johnson Dents	Sharon
	Christopher Matthew Cook	Bob
	Michael P. Sullivan	Weird Kevin
	Rosha Washington	Trevante
	James Moses Black	Captain Browning
	T.C. Matherne	Kyle
	Caroline Williams	Vanessa
	Marcus Lewis	Apache Joe
	Derek Russo	Brice
	Marvin Ross	Sal
	Gabriel 'G-Rod' Rodriguez	Ronnie
	Dave Davis	Mitch
	Keith Brooks	Doug
	Joshua Mikel	Phil

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Director	Chris McKay
Writer	Ryan Ridley, Robert Kirkman, Ava Tramer
Producer	David Alpert, Bryan Furst, Sean Furst, Gary Huckabay, Robert Kirkman, Todd Lewis, Jack LoGiudice, Chris McKay, Samantha Nisenboim
Musician	Marco Beltrami
Photography	Mitchell Amundsen

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My quick rating - 6,5/10. Having grown sick and tired of his centuries as Dracula's lackey, Renfield finds a new lease on life — and maybe even redemption — when he falls for feisty, perennially angry traffic cop Rebecca Quincy. I am so glad they didn't soften this one up to get a PG rating. Chris McKay behind the camera made sure to use the blood in abundance to make sure all the kills were definite. Nicolas Cage playing Dracula was perfectly cast and quite amusing although I did wish he got a bit more screen time. This one just has fun written all over it. Nicholas Hoult plays Renfield who is more like Draculas right hand man but instead of just being his lacky, he realizes he wants more than just that and to break away from Draculas control. This dawns on him when he stumbles across saving a detective played by Awkwafina in a well choreographed shootout between a local crime gang and police. As with all the action scenes in this one, each looks very good in a comic book way while being violent as can be spewing blood in all directions. Since Dracula wants to stay a bad guy, this new found hero behavior doesn't fit into his plan so we have the good versus evil plot set up for you to sit back and just enjoy. The comedy is mostly deadpan humor being either a violent joke or just a one liner tossed in to keep the mood light hearted. It is too bad they weren't a bit more strategic in their opening since coming a week before Evil Dead Rise most likely hurt the box office potential but I am sure it'll do well on VOD since it is a very entertaining flick that is worth checking out.

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