'Renfield' Puts a Modern Spin on the Dracula Legend

In the aptly-named 'Renfield' movie, Nicholas Hoult takes on the role of the famed familiar alongside Nicolas Cage's Dracula

Dracula left his first real mark on the big screen in Universal’s classic 1931 black-and-white horror film, with

, in theaters April 14, Nicholas Hoult takes on the role of the famed familiar alongside Nicolas Cage’s Dracula. Despite the fact that—spoiler alert—Renfield dies at the end of the 1931director Chris McKay has said that his movie is meant to be a “direct sequel” to that film. In the 1931 film, Renfield fills the role of Jonathan Harker in the book, a young English solicitor who travels to the Carpathian Mountains to finalize a real estate deal with a mysterious, reclusive Eastern European count. The movie opens with Frye’s Renfield falling under Dracula’s spell at his castle before accompanying him to London onboard the doomed merchant ship known as the Demeter.

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