2023 · comedy · fantasy · horror
Renfield
Directed by Chris McKay1h 33m2023
Having grown sick and tired of his centuries as Dracula's lackey, Renfield finds a new lease on life — and maybe even redemption — when he falls for feisty, perennially angry traffic cop Rebecca Quincy.
Our read: Renfield (2023) reads as a sombre, kinetic, surreal comedy · fantasy · horror entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, extreme comedy / fantasy, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- extreme
- surreal
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