This is a lot more schlocky than I expected: another entry for the Worst Movie of the Year. Huge liberties are taken with the vampire mythology. Renfield not only eats insects but gets super-hero powers from small doses of Dracula's blood.
Nicolas Cage's Count has teeth like a barracuda and is played in camp overdrive. His main role - and Renfield's - is to tear limbs and heads off people in a succession of fight scenes that belong in a kung-fu movie.
There's a long history of vampire movies that messed with the legend or fell wide of the mark, but RENFIELD takes the biscuit. It's meant to be a spoof, which I think was most brilliantly brought off by Roman Polanski's sublimely comic DANCE OF THE VAMPIRES,(1967).
RENFIELD is woeful, dire.
Nicolas Cage's Count has teeth like a barracuda and is played in camp overdrive. His main role - and Renfield's - is to tear limbs and heads off people in a succession of fight scenes that belong in a kung-fu movie.
There's a long history of vampire movies that messed with the legend or fell wide of the mark, but RENFIELD takes the biscuit. It's meant to be a spoof, which I think was most brilliantly brought off by Roman Polanski's sublimely comic DANCE OF THE VAMPIRES,(1967).
RENFIELD is woeful, dire.