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Catherine Spooner, Professor of Literature and Culture, Lancaster University

Renfield: Nicolas Cage's reimagining of Dracula pulls the vampire film into the 21st century

“Don’t make it a sexual thing!” Nicolas Cage’s Dracula tells Nicholas Hoult’s Renfield in this new interpretation of the classic vampire movie. “I eat boys … I eat girls.”

In a line, the film deftly dismisses a century of post-Freudian interpretations of Bram Stoker’s vampire story – and with justification. Renfield is not about sex, but about power.

The trailer for Renfield (2023).
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