Renfield

While it does its best with those surface thrills, it is too self-aware, too full of superhero-style special effects, to have the B-movie visual quality, the DIY spirit and the nostalgia that would give it real bite.

There’s a spicier, punchier and sillier movie trapped inside. Shame it couldn’t be coaxed out.

Renfield is played for laughs – though with no shortage of blood and violence.

The main attraction is Nicolas Cage’s barnstorming performance as Dracula, played mainly for laughs yet indicating careful study of his many predecessors in the role.

Ultimately undone by its self-satisfied snark and the bombastic CGI overkill decreed by the modern movie marketplace.

Go to the movie and have some fun. It's a gorefest, folks -- heads really roll.

Renfield is a bloody fun time. One of the bloodiest, funniest movies of the year&#59; it is an absolute joy.

Funny, well-crafted, and deliciously entertaining, Renfield isn’t short of bite.

Renfield wants to be cool and it wants us to think it's cool, different, and edgy, but it fails. There's a reason Dracula has endured and why we haven't felt the need to be familiar with Renfield before.

“Renfield,” the brainchild of The Walking Dead’s Robert Kirkman, is a delight and super cute. The casting director is brilliant to cast Hoult