There’s a moment in the trailer where the support-group leader is casually inviting Dracula into the room, and Renfield panics as he’s realizes what’s happening. As soon as I saw that, I knew I needed to see this movie. 10/10 did not disappoint.

It’s quite a fun movie. Cage as Dracula is priceless.

The success of a movie being measured at the box office is so outdated. With the cost of going to the movies what it is, I won’t go for 99% of movies, unless it’s something to justify the big screen and sound. Renfield looked good but it was one of those “I’ll wait till it’s streaming” movies and not one I needed to rush to the theatre and spend $50 for

I think it was the marketing. I had never heard of it when it popped up buried in new releases on a streaming service. Based on this I assumed it’d be shit but something in me was excited to see Cage as a vampire. Glad I did; 8/10 for me.

Hoult is a treasure

Idk how people saw Nic Cage as Dracula and didnt fall all over themselves grabbing tickets. That shit is golden.

My experience with this film was overwhelmingly positive but cut the other way.

What I saw was a deliberate and not-at-all veiled allegory for classic narcissistic abuse, its victims, and how victimhood can be self-perpetuating until you get help and break free. I would go as far as to say that it’s both affirming, supportive, and informative to that end. There’s even a not-so-subtle explanation as to why you don’t see group therapy for this sort of thing (it’s on purpose and absolutely necessary).

Everything else is fun acting, action scenes, special effects, set dressing, homage to old horror films, you name it, it’s in here. It all serves the story’s core premise brilliantly and keeps an otherwise dreadful topic - perhaps all too real for some of the audience - palatable for the film’s runtime.

It came and went so fast that I assumed it was terrible… until I caught it on streaming and had a blast watching it.

It’s no Citizen Kane, but it’s a great way to spend a couple hours being entertained.

Movie was non stop hilarity. Nick was doing w/e that was. he felt so out of place but it worked. Benjamin Joseph Schwartz nailed his role and Hoult was perfect. Only problem was it was a bit too excessive with the gore. I thought it added to movie absurdity but others disagreed with me.

I liked it, but man the narration gets a little grating and just turns all the subtext into text

I’m a little surprised because it’s a really good movie and Cage and Hoult fit perfectly in their roles.

lol I liked that movie.

I will watch absolutely anything with either Hoult or Cage in it. I thought Renfield was fantastic, and genuinely had no idea it performed that poorly sales-wise.

I don’t really remember it being advertised much. And the few folks I know who saw it weren’t familiar with Nic Cage’s less mainstream action flick work so they were really thrown by his character.

What I love about Cage’s performance in this movie is that he’s not just playing Dracula, he’s playing Bela Lugosi playing Dracula.