Actor Nicolas Cage has been seeing a bit of a career resurgence over the last couple of the years with the actor releasing great film after great film. Well now he's back with another film that looks to continue that trend and well after seeing the films insane trailer I just had to check this film out the very chance that I got and so then join me as I give you my SPOILER FREE review of the film that really does put a new spin on some classic characters with the film in question being called simply just "Renfield" enjoy.
The plot of this film is Renfield Dracula's henchman for decades longs for a life away from the Count , his various demands and all of the bloodshed that comes with them. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad with this films plot being rather enjoyable but also rather weak but dumb in an enjoyable way and thin as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Starring in this film is Nicholas Hoult as Renfield , Nicolas Cage as Count Dracula and Awkwafina as Rebecca Quincy. Also starring in this film is Ben Schwartz as Teddy , Adrian Martinez as Chris , Shohreh Aghdashloo as Bellafrancesca , Brandon Scott Jones as Mark , Jenna Kanell as Carol , Bess Rous as Caitlyn , Camille Chen as Kate , James Moses Black as Captain Browning and Caroline Williams as Vanessa.
Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good. With Nicolas Cage just killing it as Count Dracula by turning in a performance that only he can with the rest of this films cast being as over the top as you'd want them to be and turning in some really good performances in this film as well.
Doing the CGI for this film is the legends and the greats that are currently over at Industrial Light & Magic and Outpost VFX. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad altho it wasn't all that good either with this films CGI looking good but really fake as well.
This isn't the first time that Universal Pictures have attempted to do a Dracula spin off with the first one being the 2014 film that was meant to kick start their failed cinematic universe "Dark Universe" which was bad that it ended after two movies with the film itself being called simply just Dracula Untold. I only bring that film because this film is a great example of how to do a Dracula film in the modern day with this film harkening back to what made the character so iconic whilst also updating him in a way that feels rather natural and organic.
I will say that this film really doesn't do that good of a job of making Dracula himself seem all that scary. Which is a shame since alot of people are going to be seeing this movie because of the fact that they want to scared by Dracula and when he's not delivering on being scary all your left with is a character that isn't even fully formed yet which is something that could also be said for alot of this films characters as alot of them just feel like cardboard cut outs of much better characters instead of being their own characters.
As a comedy this film isn't all that funny but in this case that isn't so much of a bad thing as it's quite clear to me that the makers of this film put alot more effort into it's scares. Which does make sense since the last Dracula comedy I think came out in the nineteen nineties and wasn't all that good and so putting alot more effort into making the kills as over the top as possible does make sense but at the same time with this film being a horror comedy there are some decent jokes to be found in this film just sadly not all that many.
Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and twenty seven minuets and thirty nine seconds. Which is such a short running time for this film to have since it has so much setting up to do and not alot of time to do it and as such the film does suffer because of it as plot points feel rushed and unearned and as such this film really should have a longer running time just so that the plot could be more fully fleshed out and so that the characters could be more fully developed and it doesn't help that this film really doesn't have that good pacing at all.
So now then since this is a horror film that means that I have to talk about the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film were in all honesty really good. With this films many gruesome and very often very gory as all heck death scenes being where the film is most fun just because we get to see people die in really creative and fun ways which is always fun to see in any film regardless of it's a horror film or not in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Overall this was a really fun movie and while it's quite clearly not as good as say The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent it is still a really good and fun film in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very film in this very review and as such that means that this very film earns itself a grand old score of exactly a 7 out of 10 from me.
Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very film well then boys and and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from IMP Awards . Com , the official Evil Dead fandom wiki page and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get images from this film being Google Images simply because Google Image actually has images from this film up on Google Images and plus pretty much much all of the images that I personally found on Google Images were all fairly high quality and as well as being as fairly high definition and so then horror fans we end this review as we always do with really our one and true goddess Elvira wishing us all some really very unpleasant dreams.
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