{"id":33243,"date":"2023-07-09T07:45:59","date_gmt":"2023-07-09T11:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=33243"},"modified":"2023-07-09T07:45:59","modified_gmt":"2023-07-09T11:45:59","slug":"renfield-2023-starring-nicholas-hoult-awkwafina-nicholas-cage-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=33243","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Renfield&#8221; (2023) starring Nicholas Hoult, Awkwafina &#038; Nicholas Cage \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z070923zview_renfield.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Renfield <\/strong><\/em>(2023)<\/p>\n<p>Director: <strong>Chris McKay<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Ryan Ridley <\/strong>from a story by <strong>Robert Kirkman <\/strong>based on <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3XPu9oo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Dracula<\/strong><\/a> by<strong> Bram Stoker<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Nicholas Hoult, Nicolas Cage, Awkwafina, Brandon Scott Jones<\/strong> and <strong>Adrian Martinez.<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>Stop serving. Start living.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Renfield (Hoult), Dracula&#8217;s (Cage) servant for the last 90 years, has come to realize he&#8217;s in a toxic relationship.\u00a0 He wants out.\u00a0 Unfortunately, Dracula is not ready to let him go.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\"><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nicholas Cage would be one of the last actors I would consider to play <em>Dracula<\/em>, but since Renfield is a comedy, it all works out.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I thought it was cool that Chris McKay took a couple of scenes from the original <em>Dracula<\/em> film and superimposed Cage&#8217;s face for Dracula and Hoult&#8217;s for Renfield.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The idea that Renfield realizes he&#8217;s in a toxic relationship and attends meetings with others looking to get out of bad relationships creates for some funny business.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\"><em><strong>Renfield <\/strong><\/em>(2023) rates 3 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_c.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z070923zview_renfield2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"331\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Renfield (2023) Director: Chris McKay Screenplay: Ryan Ridley from a story by Robert Kirkman based on Dracula by Bram Stoker<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,53,63,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-horror","category-humor","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33243"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33267,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33243\/revisions\/33267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}