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The peerless Nicholas Cage as Dracula – do you need any more reason than that to watch a film?
In what is sure to be a larger-than-life comedic take on the already-parodied vampire genre of movies, Nic Cage’s upcoming film Renfield focuses on Count Dracula’s lackey RM Renfield (Nicholas Hoult).
Renfield finds a new lease on life in modern-day New Orleans when he falls in love with traffic cop Rebecca Quincy (Awkafina) and decides to finally stand up to his creator in hopes of breaking free of his servitude.
The comedy horror film has been directed by Chris McKay, best known for directing The Lego Batman Movie, and is based on a screenplay by Ryan Ridley.
First shown at the Overlook Film Festival at the end of last month, the film holds an approval rating of 92 per cent on Rotten Tomatoes and will be released in US theatres on Friday, April 14.
With Nic Cage drawing inspiration from An American Werewolf in London (1981), Ring (1998), and Malignant (2021), this movie and his portrayal of Dracula is the product of the hours he spent studying all the ways that the vampire has been portrayed on the screen as well as the source material – Bram Stoker’s Dracula.
