Renfield (2023) on Netflix
R20231h 33mComedyFantasyHorror
Renfield has served as Count Dracula's familiar for ninety years, fetching victims and enduring abuse. He joins a self-help group for codependent people and meets police officer Rebecca Quincy.
- Netflix3.1/5
- IMDb6.4/10121,546 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes58%
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Plot summary
Vampire hunters nearly kill Count Dracula, so he and his familiar Renfield travel to New Orleans to recover. Renfield has spent ninety years bringing his master victims and enduring his abuse, and he joins a twelve-step group for people in codependent relationships. Wanting to feed Dracula without guilt, he tracks down a fellow member's abusive partner, and an assassin from the rival Lobo crime family attacks them there; Renfield kills the man. Teddy Lobo, who hired the killer, flees in his car and is stopped at a sobriety checkpoint by police officer Rebecca Quincy, who takes him into custody. Teddy is released at the station, where Rebecca argues with her sister Kate, an FBI agent. Clues from the crime scene lead Rebecca to a restaurant, where she and Renfield are caught in an attempt on her life.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Renfield (2023)
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- Renfield's black-and-white opening scenes recreate Dracula (1931), with Nicolas Cage and Nicholas Hoult composited into the old backgrounds as Dracula and Renfield, replacing Bela Lugosi and Dwight Frye, the original actors erased; Helen Chandler and Edward Van Sloan appear via archive footage.
- During the shoot in New Orleans, more than twenty vehicles belonging to the Renfield production crew were burglarized late at night in a secured parking lot, with only one security guard on duty at the time.
- Renfield was Nicolas Cage's first live-action film for a major studio since Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance in 2011, more than a decade earlier.
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