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The Best Part of ‘Renfield’ is the Retro Look at Dracula
Renfield
Rating: 3/10
Director: Chris McKay
Style: Horror Comedy Fantasy
Time: 1 hours and 33 minutes
Review by Mike Szymanski
Renfield is a fun film, and enjoyable for what it is, but it’s overwhelmingly disappointing for me, because I’ve expected so much more.
Many of you won’t remember, but Nic Cage did a wonderful portrayal as a vampire in the 1988 movie “Vampire’s Kiss” and I expected him to camp it up a bit more in this one as the one-and-only Dracula.
Instead, Nicolas Cage had make-up and gruesome costuming to turn his face into a ghoulish creature, resembling nothing of the original scary Dracula, nor using the talents of the Academy Award-winning actor (yeah, people forget he won an Oscar too, way back in 1996 for “Leaving Las Vegas”).
It’s not the first time the actor played a vampire either. He was one in the off-beat film “Vampire’s Kiss” in 1988, but this time he goes all-out Bela Lugosi…
