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Movie review: 'Renfield' matches Nicolas Cage intensity with satire, gore

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Nicolas Cage delivers his wild and menacing take on Dracula in "Renfield," in theaters Friday, in a film that satirizes both horror movies and relationship comedies.

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  1. Variety

    'Renfield' Review: Nicolas Cage Plays a Stylishly Overwrought Dracula (opens Variety)

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    Nicholas Hoult plays Dracula's disciple in an ultraviolent vampire action movie that's mostly a flip grab bag.

  2. UPI

    Movie review: 'Renfield' matches Nicolas Cage intensity with satire, gore (opens UPI)

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    Nicolas Cage delivers his wild and menacing take on Dracula in "Renfield," in theaters Friday, in a film that satirizes both horror movies and relationship comedies.

  3. The Daily Dot

    Review: Nic Cage and Nicholas Hoult let loose in the unashamedly silly Dracula spinoff 'Renfield' (opens The Daily Dot)

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    Nic Cage as Dracula, in a lightweight comedy about abusive relationships? If it works, it works!

  4. Avclub

    Renfield review: Nicolas Cage delivers the Dracula we've always wanted (opens Avclub)

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    Nicholas Hoult and Awkwafina co-star in this horror comedy with gross-outs and gimmicks galore but not much else.

  5. Deadline

    ‘Renfield’ Review: Nicholas Hoult Emerges From Shadow Of Nicolas Cage’s Needy Dracula In Amusing If Bloody New Take On Classic (opens Deadline)

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    There have been so many variations and film versions of Bram Stoker’s classic Dracula, from 1926’s Nosferatu to Tod Browning’s 1931 Dracula to Francis Coppola’s well-regarde…

  6. The Hollywood Reporter

    ‘Renfield’ Review: Nicolas Cage and Nicholas Hoult Can’t Quite Save This Bloody Mess of a Vampire Comedy (opens The Hollywood Reporter)

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    Cage plays Dracula and Hoult the titular long-suffering servant in Chris McKay's New Orleans-set film co-starring Awkwafina.

  7. Observer

    ‘Renfield’ Review: Nicolas Cage Provides The Only Bite In This Dracula Comedy (opens Observer)

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    A sideways look at what it’s like to work for Dracula isn’t the worst idea. But if you’ve seen ‘What We Do in the Shadows,’ you’ve seen it funnier than it is here.

  8. The Guardian

    Renfield review – gory fun as Nicolas Cage gets his teeth into Dracula (opens The Guardian)

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    This starry vampire caper borrows from the best bits of Hollywood monster movies and features some truly resplendent gore, but its tone and its morals are a bit off

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