The bad news is that Cage’s Dracula is only a supporting role here, making “Renfield” more of a tasty morsel than a satisfying feast. The good news is that, no, he’s perfect as Dracula. Casting Cage, our grandest of ghouls, as Dracula is so predestined that it almost risks being too on the nose. Thirty-five years later with “Renfield,” Cage is finally playing the genuine article, complete with bloodthirsty fangs and a dapper velvet smoking jacket. Years later, it would launch a thousand memes - a kind of digital version of becoming undead. His bug-eyed performance was essentially the birth of the over-the-top, kabuki-inflected mythology of Cage. In 1988’s “Vampire’s Kiss,” he played a New York literary agent who thought he was an immortal bloodsucker. “Renfield” is not Nicolas Cage’s first blush with a vampire.
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