Renfield (2023)

Written by erosap on May 7, 2023

Awkwafina should have been on the poster!

Not knowing she was in this, is what probably made me resist watching Renfield right away. She is the most watchable part of the film.

Maybe because the rest is not a revelation; everything that happens in the movie with Cage and Hoult, is just predictable vampire tropes—the trailer was enough for that.

At any moment, it was neither horror, nor comedy. Although, at the very beginning, the recovering Dracula is convincingly threatening; but not once he 'gains full power'. The excessive, exploding blood-works would have been funny, if they were selective with it's use. But they end up using it everywhere, even the kills that are meant to invoke fear and sadness. Perhaps it was an attempt at nonsense comedy. But, didn't come across very well.

But yes, Awkwafinaaaa!