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Renfield (2023)

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Renfield (2023)	comment	Renfield is a 2023 action horror comedy film based upon the character from Bram Stoker's classic gothic horror novel Dracula. It is directed by Chris McKay, produced and based off an idea by Robert Kirkman, and stars Nicholas Hoult, Awkwafina, Adrian Martinez, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Ben Schwartz, and Nicolas Cage.Set in modern-day New Orleans, the film follows Robert Montague Renfield (Hoult), now disillusioned from decades of playing familiar to the narcissistic Count Dracula (Cage). But when a chance encounter with badass cop Rebecca Quincy (Awkwafina) gives him a taste of life beyond servitude to history's most feared vampire, he sets out to find a way to end his co-dependent relationship with his master.And you thought you had a sucky boss.The film was released on April 14, 2023. Notably, it is the first of two 2023 films by Universal based around Dracula, the second being The Last Voyage of the Demeter. It was spun off from an idea gestating around The Dark Universe, the first attempt at a reboot.Previews: Trailer 1, Trailer 2
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Renfield (2023) / int_1086f287	type	Sure, Let's Go with That
Renfield (2023) / int_1086f287	comment	Sure, Let's Go with That: When he finally opens up to the support group, Renfield admits to following a fellow member but stutters to explain why then quickly latches onto the member's offered explanation rather than admit he was going to sacrifice him (or his abuser) to Dracula.
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Renfield (2023) / int_1186fcb5	type	Supernatural Gold Eyes
Renfield (2023) / int_1186fcb5	comment	Supernatural Gold Eyes: Renfield's eyes turn gold when he activates the powers given to him by Dracula. When Teddy and the rest of the Lobo mobsters get those same powers later on, their eyes also change.
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Renfield (2023) / int_121b3725	type	Age Lift
Renfield (2023) / int_121b3725	comment	Age Lift: The Renfield of the original story was 59 years old when he fell under Dracula's power. This version of Renfield appears much younger (Nicholas Hoult was 33 during filming). The film takes cues from the classic 1931 movie Dracula, where Renfield was played by the similarly aged Dwight Frye.
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Renfield (2023) / int_12ed845c	type	Heal It with Blood
Renfield (2023) / int_12ed845c	comment	Heal It with Blood: Dracula's blood has healing properties. We see him use it to heal a disemboweled Renfield instantly, Rebecca heals a dying Renfield by shooting Drac through the foot, and they manage to salvage enough blood to revive not just Kate, but also the support group Dracula had killed midway through the film.
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Renfield (2023) / int_12ef566e	type	Splatter Horror
Renfield (2023) / int_12ef566e	comment	Splatter Horror: Between Renfield's bug-powered super-strength, Dracula's dietary habits, and the fact that everyone seems to be filled with marinara sauce, the action scenes can be hilariouslyâ€¦ wet.
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Renfield (2023) / int_137f2d7	type	Card-Carrying Villain
Renfield (2023) / int_137f2d7	comment	Card-Carrying Villain: Teddy Lobo outright identifies himself and his family's business as Evil in order to appeal to Dracula's contempt for the good guys.
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Renfield (2023) / int_13992073	type	Rasputinian Death
Renfield (2023) / int_13992073	comment	Rasputinian Death: Dracula himself, who ends the movie with Renfield and Rebecca thoroughly decimating him with both sharp and blunt weapons, cutting him into pieces, melting the pieces down with acid and holy water, sealing the remains in small concrete cubes, and dumping the cubes down a sewer drain. Toyed with, in that Renfield isn't sure if even that will kill Dracula permanently, but rests easy with the knowledge that, even if it doesn't, it'll be a long, long time before he can come back from it.
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Renfield (2023) / int_143939c1	type	Trailers Always Spoil
Renfield (2023) / int_143939c1	comment	Trailers Always Spoil: The trailers for the film give away Dracula's murder of the support group members, which happens more than halfway through the film.
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Renfield (2023) / int_149f7447	type	Rescue Romance
Renfield (2023) / int_149f7447	comment	Rescue Romance: At their first meeting Renfield is instantly smitten with Rebecca when he sees her stand up to a gun-toting criminal. She becomes interested in him after he saves her life during the ensuing shootout.
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Renfield (2023) / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
Renfield (2023) / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: Renfield's dynamic with Dracula is deliberately paralleled with an abusive romantic relationship. Much of what Dracula does is textbook abusive boyfriend behavior, with physical violence, manipulation, coercion, and threats mixed in with meager Pet the Dog moments that keep Renfield hooked and thinking maybe, maybe Dracula can change and actually does care about him. Renfield's description of their relationship is also very familiar to anyone who knows how these kinds of relationships tend to go: Dracula lured Renfield in with, essentially, lovebombing and grand gestures of kindness and generosity, before slowly revealing his true nature and becoming more controlling and exploitative. By the time Renfield realized what a bad situation this was for him, he was too reliant on and scared of Dracula to leave. The scene where Dracula confronts Renfield at his new apartment is very reminiscent of an abusive boyfriend tracking down his ex after she dumps him and tries to start over elsewhere, with Renfield completely terrified of being lured back in and Dracula trying every trick in the book to bring Renfield back or, failing that, punish him for leaving. To drive the point home, Caitlyn, the woman at the support group who is trying to recover from a breakup with her abusive ex-boyfriend, describes things similar to what Renfield goes through. Like Dracula, her ex convinced her it was them against the world to further isolate her and endear himself to her, and like Dracula, her ex got her on board with things she wouldn't have agreed to on her own. (Though in Renfield's case, it's murder. In Caitlyn's, it's listening to ska music.)
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Renfield (2023) / int_17122b19	type	Exactly What I Aimed At
Renfield (2023) / int_17122b19	comment	Exactly What I Aimed At: In the final battle, Renfield is downed and Dracula has Rebecca by the throat and gun hand while hovering overhead. The most Rebecca can do is put some bullets through Dracula's footâ€¦ and drip his blood onto Renfield.
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Renfield (2023) / int_19e41d8f	type	And This Is for...
Renfield (2023) / int_19e41d8f	comment	And This Is for...: When he prepares to kill Mitchell, Doug, and their friends and bring them to Dracula for feeding, Renfield introduces himself as "a friend of Caitlyn's," meaning it as a Pre-Asskicking One-Liner. They're not too intimidated until they see Renfield in action.
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Renfield (2023) / int_1afb845c	type	Tropaholics Anonymous
Renfield (2023) / int_1afb845c	comment	Tropaholics Anonymous: Throughout the film, Renfield attends a support group for people in abusive relationships, initially with the idea of targeting their abusers as food for Dracula, but then to actually seek help when he realizes he needs to get out from under his masterâ€™s thumb.
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Renfield (2023) / int_1d18887f	type	Pay Evil unto Evil
Renfield (2023) / int_1d18887f	comment	Pay Evil unto Evil: Renfield tries to ease his conscience about finding victims for Dracula by targeting the Support Group's abusive partners. This doesn't get him very far, since Dracula favors "pure" victims and it gets the attention of the Lobo Crime-Family.
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Renfield (2023) / int_20917b55	type	Milking the Giant Cow
Renfield (2023) / int_20917b55	comment	Milking the Giant Cow: Rebeccaâ€™s hands will not stay lower than her shoulders in any given scene. Not even when one of her shoulders is injured.
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Renfield (2023) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Renfield (2023) / int_2139c878	comment	Church Militant: The Church has been sending out vampire hunters to kill Dracula for centuries. While they're no longer as prominent now (with the last official cell being killed some time ago), Dracula associates every church as a threat to him, including, sadly, the church where Renfield's support group meets.
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Renfield (2023) / int_21bde5e8	type	The Tooth Hurts
Renfield (2023) / int_21bde5e8	comment	The Tooth Hurts: Renfield rips out Dracula's fangs during their final confrontation.
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Renfield (2023) / int_21bf4878	type	Decapitation Presentation
Renfield (2023) / int_21bf4878	comment	Decapitation Presentation: The first thing we see of Teddy Lobo's new superpowers is the police chief head he tears off and sends rolling into an open door.
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Renfield (2023) / int_22a60f6a	type	Nepotism
Renfield (2023) / int_22a60f6a	comment	Nepotism: It is blatantly obvious that the only reason Teddy is highly ranked in the Lobos is that he's the boss's son, though he is fairly well-liked within the gang, with members even offering to kill Rebecca for him because of his clear reluctance.
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Renfield (2023) / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Renfield (2023) / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: Dracula's blood has the power to heal wounds. Rebecca uses this to save Renfield's life during the Final Battle, and it's later used offscreen to resurrect Rebecca's sister and Renfield's support group. The Lobo family's stash of cocaine. It's used to make the protective circle that finally stops Dracula, because the spell doesn't specify what sort of powder is required.
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Renfield (2023) / int_246c9dc5	type	Unknown Rival
Renfield (2023) / int_246c9dc5	comment	Unknown Rival: In the climax, Teddy tries to set himself up as Renfield's Foil and rival, only for Renfield to remark that they've only met twice before.
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Renfield (2023) / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
Renfield (2023) / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag: One to the original Dracula novel. Rebecca's father is named Morris Quincy, a reference to Quincey Morris, an American cowboy and one of Lucy Westenra's suitors from Dracula who helped defeat the Count. (Ironically a character Adapted Out by most film adaptations of the novel.) The circumstances of Renfield meeting Dracula and falling under his control are presented as an extended reference to how Dracula (1931) depicted these same events. Several key shots from the 1931 film are even recreated with Nicholas Hoult and Nicolas Cage in place of Dwight Frye and Bela Lugosi. Likewise, they play music from Swan Lake, which is a shout-out to the fact the music was used for the opening credits in the 1931 movie. Nicolas Cage's mannerisms as Dracula are all explicitly based on Christopher Lee's Dracula (though if you know what to look for, you can spot quite a bit of Lugosi and especially Langella in his performance, as well). When monologuing to Teddy, Dracula's offers of power are mixed with the popular image of Vlad the Impaler, with Dracula repeatedly offering to impale their enemies. The Lobo family, particularly when their gunmen attack wearing wolf masks, are echoes of the wolves that surrounded Castle Dracula in the original book and film.
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Renfield (2023) / int_2740531a	type	She Cleans Up Nicely
Renfield (2023) / int_2740531a	comment	She Cleans Up Nicely: Male version. Renfield's support group insists he looks awful due to not taking care of himself but he's treated as remarkably handsome once he cleans up.
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Renfield (2023) / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
Renfield (2023) / int_2a090d00	comment	Lampshaded in the epilogue: there's so much conflicting lore about how to permanently kill a vampire, that Renfield and Rebecca decide to just try everything (and even then, Renfield admits he's still not sure this will be permanent).
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Renfield (2023) / int_2ae29c0d	type	The Dreaded
Renfield (2023) / int_2ae29c0d	comment	The Dreaded: The Lobo crime family are explicitly the top crime family in New Orleans because of how much they're feared, with Bellafrancesca stating the other families are larger and more powerful but still fear them, mostly due to their habit of Disproportionate Retribution.
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Renfield (2023) / int_2b14367f	type	Bring My Brown Pants
Renfield (2023) / int_2b14367f	comment	Bring My Brown Pants: Renfield kicks Teddy so hard that he spews blood and violently shits himself.
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Renfield (2023) / int_2b75f9b3	type	Token Good Cop
Renfield (2023) / int_2b75f9b3	comment	Token Good Cop: The abrasiveness and/or ineptitude of all the other cops at her precinct drives Rebecca Quincey crazy even before she begins to realize most, if not all, of them are in the pocket of the Lobos.
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Renfield (2023) / int_2d4fa515	type	Ax-Crazy
Renfield (2023) / int_2d4fa515	comment	Ax-Crazy: Teddy Lobo was already unstable, but once Dracula gives him vampiric power, he loses any humanity he previously exhibited and becomes an insane killing machine. The Lobos as a whole have a reputation for this, as they make up for lacking the resources or territory of other major gangs by being unnecessarily cruel to their enemies and victims. Their headquarters' walls are adorned with countless weapons and torture tools.
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Renfield (2023) / int_2d6f00e4	type	Psycho for Hire
Renfield (2023) / int_2d6f00e4	comment	Psycho for Hire: We see the silhouette of a woman with a distinctive bob haircut torturing a man in the Lobos' basement. We later see her watching the raid on Renfield's apartment and applauding when Renfield tears off a mobster's arms.
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Renfield (2023) / int_2f36d97	type	Older Than They Look
Renfield (2023) / int_2f36d97	comment	Older Than They Look: Renfield has not aged since he became Dracula's servant in the early 1930s. He accidentally mentions fighting in "the Great War" when he meets Rebecca.
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Renfield (2023) / int_309b8806	type	Cursed with Awesome
Renfield (2023) / int_309b8806	comment	Cursed with Awesome: Being Dracula's familiar comes with a few perks — immortality, along with Super-Strength, Super-Speed and Super-Reflexes when eating bugs — but they are essentially Dracula's slaves for all of eternity. While there does seem to be some supernatural element to their thralldom, Teddy having to catch himself saying "the Master" when he means Dracula, it's implied that most of it is purely gaslighting and psychological manipulation. Renfield outright refers to it as a curse during the Final Battle.
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Renfield (2023) / int_30d4f2a	type	Narcissist
Renfield (2023) / int_30d4f2a	comment	Narcissist: The film very blatantly diagnoses Dracula as one, from his delusions of grandeur to making Renfield do everything for him (either because he is incapable or simply can't be bothered) and hoisting the moral burden onto him when he starts to rebel. Just the fact that he has his familiars call him "Master" is proof enough, really.
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Renfield (2023) / int_30e6200f	type	Missing Steps Plan
Renfield (2023) / int_30e6200f	comment	Missing Steps Plan: Dracula's new plan to take over the world is to find more people like Renfield to useâ€¦ and that's it. He seems to think that it'll just put itself together once that's done. Getting together with the Lobo crime family is a step, at least.
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Renfield (2023) / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Renfield (2023) / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Teddy and his associates think Apache Joe's nickname is racist. Not that they'd say it to his face. In a more subtle example, Teddy is horrified when he finds the myriad blood bags and mutilated bodies in the abandoned hospital, not yet knowing he's in a vampire's lair. Dracula himself asks that Renfield not "make it a sexual thing" when asked if he specifically wants female cheerleaders to feed on, showing that there are some things even Dracula finds too depraved.
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Renfield (2023) / int_31cc44aa	type	Odd Name, Normal Nickname
Renfield (2023) / int_31cc44aa	comment	Odd Name, Normal Nickname: Ted Lobo's full name is "Tedward."
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Renfield (2023) / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
Renfield (2023) / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: This wouldn't be the first time Cage had played a Mean Boss vampire, having played Peter Loew — a crazed, abusive yuppie who thought he was turning into a vampire (maybe) — in Vampire's Kiss. Ironically, Peter Loew was himself a modernized example of The Renfield. The trailer ends with the twist that Nicolas Cage is playing Dracula, which feels very similar to the (fictitious) trailer for Werewolf Women of the SS (featured in Grindhouse), where Nicolas Cage plays Fu Manchu.
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Renfield (2023) / int_396e1c2a	type	Face Death with Dignity
Renfield (2023) / int_396e1c2a	comment	Face Death with Dignity: When Teddy offers to spare Rebecca's life if she admits that his family owns her, just like they own the city, she instead irritably tells him to Get It Over With. Once Dracula realizes that he's already lost, he tells them how he's looking forward to meeting all of the "amusing people" in Hell and screams a defiant "Hail Satan!" right before Renfield strikes the killing blow.
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Renfield (2023) / int_3ab3dbb	type	Adaptational Protagonist
Renfield (2023) / int_3ab3dbb	comment	Adaptational Protagonist: Renfield is a Horror Comedy movie based on Dracula, that surprisingly brings to the spotlight a lesser character of the book: Renfield, Dracula's sycophantic familiar. Renfield focuses on the master-servant/slave relationship between the vampire lord and The Renfield, but from the point of view of the latter, and how such a relationship can be psychologically detrimental to the familiar, who is exploited by his master.
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Renfield (2023) / int_3c700857	type	Guys Smash, Girls Shoot
Renfield (2023) / int_3c700857	comment	Guys Smash, Girls Shoot: Justified in that Renfield has superhuman abilities which make him a formidable brawler while Rebeccaâ€™s police training gives her proficiency in firearms.
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Renfield (2023) / int_3cb1d38d	type	Bad Boss
Renfield (2023) / int_3cb1d38d	comment	Bad Boss: The main conflict of the film is that Renfield is stuck working under Dracula, a narcissist and literal monster who abuses and emotionally manipulates him, and he wants out of that relationship. One member of the support group specifically empathizes with Renfield's comments about his boss being a monster, and accurately pinpoints how Dracula makes Renfield feel, "Like he could kill you with a snap of his fingers," implying that he, too, is there because of a toxic and abusive employer.
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Renfield (2023)	hasFeature	Renfield (2023) / int_3cb1d38d
Renfield (2023) / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
Renfield (2023) / int_3d699462	comment	Curb-Stomp Battle: A small army of corrupt cops and Lobo gunmen storm Renfield's apartment. Renfield and Rebecca kill all of them, so many that they form a literal pile of corpses and the actual Lobo headquarters has only a few defenders left. They get the edge for a bit because they've become familiars, but Renfield and Rebecca slaughter them all anyway.
Renfield (2023) / int_3d699462	featureApplicability	1.0
Renfield (2023) / int_3d699462	featureConfidence	1.0
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Renfield (2023) / int_3fb4b1cb	type	The Renfield
Renfield (2023) / int_3fb4b1cb	comment	The Renfield: The titular character is the Trope Namer after all. See Deconstructed Character Archetype above.
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Renfield (2023) / int_3fb4b1cb	featureConfidence	1.0
Renfield (2023)	hasFeature	Renfield (2023) / int_3fb4b1cb
Renfield (2023) / int_40c57041	type	Manipulative Bastard
Renfield (2023) / int_40c57041	comment	Manipulative Bastard: Dracula's worst ability isn't any of his supernatural powers, but his natural ability to get into a person's head and prey on their greatest vulnerabilities, which is what led to his toxic relationship with Renfield.
Renfield (2023) / int_40c57041	featureApplicability	1.0
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Renfield (2023) / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
Renfield (2023) / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: Carol, a support group member whose shares keep getting interrupted by Renfield. Kyle who keeps being told "Fuck you, Kyle!"
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Renfield (2023) / int_47fea76b	featureConfidence	1.0
Renfield (2023)	hasFeature	Renfield (2023) / int_47fea76b
Renfield (2023) / int_4cbc7f95	type	Blasting It Out of Their Hands
Renfield (2023) / int_4cbc7f95	comment	Blasting It Out of Their Hands: Rebecca shoots a knife out of a mobster's hand at one point.
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Renfield (2023) / int_4cbc7f95	featureConfidence	1.0
Renfield (2023)	hasFeature	Renfield (2023) / int_4cbc7f95
Renfield (2023) / int_4f84cdef	type	Smug Snake
Renfield (2023) / int_4f84cdef	comment	Smug Snake: Teddy Lobo certainly talks a big game, but the moment he's actually in trouble, he completely panics. When arrested, he immediately starts offering information on everything his family has done before anyone has even questioned him. But the moment his lawyer gets him released, he's back to being an arrogant prick.
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Renfield (2023)	hasFeature	Renfield (2023) / int_4f84cdef
Renfield (2023) / int_508d91a2	type	Pre-Mortem One-Liner
Renfield (2023) / int_508d91a2	comment	Pre-Mortem One-Liner: Dracula gets one just before he murders Renfield's support group.
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Renfield (2023)	hasFeature	Renfield (2023) / int_508d91a2
Renfield (2023) / int_51640e80	type	Bond One-Liner
Renfield (2023) / int_51640e80	comment	Bond One-Liner: More of a Bond Villain one-liner when the police chief severs ties with the Lobos, saying he wants out, then leaves the room only for Teddy to tear his head off and send it back into the room.
Renfield (2023) / int_51640e80	featureApplicability	1.0
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Renfield (2023) / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
Renfield (2023) / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: The film starts and ends with Renfield attending a support group meeting for people in abusive relationships. The first time, he's watching quietly from the sidelines. The second time, he's speaking openly about his experiences with Dracula and expressing happiness that he's able to start moving forward.
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Renfield (2023) / int_543a0278	type	Villain Respect
Renfield (2023) / int_543a0278	comment	Villain Respect: Played With. Teddy offers that Rebecca is stronger than her father when she refuses to beg for her life, but he later rants about how he's going to slowly torture her to death for that same refusal.
Renfield (2023) / int_543a0278	featureApplicability	1.0
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Renfield (2023) / int_585ecd03	type	Picky People Eater
Renfield (2023) / int_585ecd03	comment	Picky People Eater: Dracula, of course, favors blood but specifically prefers the blood of morally pure people. This conflicts with Renfield's desire to only feed him evil people.
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Renfield (2023) / int_585ecd03	featureConfidence	1.0
Renfield (2023)	hasFeature	Renfield (2023) / int_585ecd03
Renfield (2023) / int_590eb583	type	Domestic Abuse
Renfield (2023) / int_590eb583	comment	Domestic Abuse: Several people at Renfield's support group are there because they were in a codependent and abusive relationship with their exes. Dracula and Renfield's relationship isn't portrayed as romantic, but the subtext is definitely there. And it's pointed out in-film that a relationship doesn't need to be romantic to be abusive and codependant.
Renfield (2023) / int_590eb583	featureApplicability	1.0
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Renfield (2023) / int_5973fab5	type	Does Not Like Spam
Renfield (2023) / int_5973fab5	comment	Does Not Like Spam: Dracula prefers the blood of the pure of heart. Renfield is trying to assuage his guilt by capturing bad people and feeding them to his master. When Renfield drags a scuzzy drug dealer and the beheaded corpse of a contract killer to Dracula, he finally gets fed up.
Renfield (2023) / int_5973fab5	featureApplicability	1.0
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Renfield (2023) / int_5989e3b6	type	Enemy Mine
Renfield (2023) / int_5989e3b6	comment	Enemy Mine: Dracula joins forces with the Lobos partially because they have a common enemy in Renfield since he killed their men and has turned his back on the Count.
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Renfield (2023) / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
Renfield (2023) / int_59907e4f	comment	Police Are Useless: Both the New Orleans police and the FBI are shown to be utterly useless in handling both the Lobos crime family and the reappearance of Dracula. Justified in both cases as Dracula is quite the Outside-Context Problem and the entire police department is on the Lobos' payroll.
Renfield (2023) / int_59907e4f	featureApplicability	1.0
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Renfield (2023) / int_5abc8612	type	Unholy Matrimony
Renfield (2023) / int_5abc8612	comment	Unholy Matrimony: Dracula and Bellafrancesa clearly hit it off upon first meeting, with Dracula even kissing her hand. It doesn't last, due to Dracula being sealed in concrete and Bellafrancesa being arrested.
Renfield (2023) / int_5abc8612	featureApplicability	1.0
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Renfield (2023) / int_5bf112dc	type	Vampire Bites Suck
Renfield (2023) / int_5bf112dc	comment	Vampire Bites Suck: Dracula doesn't so much bite people as rip out large chunks of their throats.
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Renfield (2023) / int_5bf112dc	featureConfidence	1.0
Renfield (2023)	hasFeature	Renfield (2023) / int_5bf112dc
Renfield (2023) / int_5f91efd9	type	Creative Closing Credits
Renfield (2023) / int_5f91efd9	comment	Creative Closing Credits: The main cast and crew names are displayed on posters from the support group's meeting room. After that, the rest of the credits are laid over stylized film stock depicting events from the movie.
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Renfield (2023) / int_5fc3ab7f	type	Implied Love Interest
Renfield (2023) / int_5fc3ab7f	comment	Implied Love Interest: Renfield is obviously very taken with Rebecca, and she's implied to like him back, but they never kiss or explicitly discuss their feelings, and the epilogue doesn't confirm or deny that they're now together.
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Renfield (2023) / int_6023a9bc	type	Bloody Hilarious
Renfield (2023) / int_6023a9bc	comment	Bloody Hilarious: Almost every kill by Renfield is comically over the top with how much blood goes flying everywhere.
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Renfield (2023)	hasFeature	Renfield (2023) / int_6023a9bc
Renfield (2023) / int_6293c185	type	Sequel Hook
Renfield (2023) / int_6293c185	comment	Sequel Hook: While Renfield and Rebecca were quite thorough in their mutilation of Dracula, Renfield states that he has seen the vampire come back from some pretty gruesome fates and there is a chance that he can come back from being chopped up and sealed into multiple tiny cubes of cementâ€¦ just not for a long time.
Renfield (2023) / int_6293c185	featureApplicability	1.0
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Renfield (2023) / int_6377d6e6	type	Grievous Harm with a Body
Renfield (2023) / int_6377d6e6	comment	Grievous Harm with a Body: Renfield dismembers the mooks coming for him and uses one guy's arms as nunchucks.
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Renfield (2023) / int_6377d6e6	featureConfidence	1.0
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Renfield (2023) / int_63d861f8	type	Even Evil Has Loved Ones
Renfield (2023) / int_63d861f8	comment	Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Bellafrancesa Lobo doesn't think too highly of her son Teddy, but when he disappears after running into Dracula, she wastes no time mustering the entire New Orleans police force to help find him.
Renfield (2023) / int_63d861f8	featureApplicability	1.0
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Renfield (2023) / int_6654b17b	type	Facial Horror
Renfield (2023) / int_6654b17b	comment	Facial Horror: Renfield tears the skin off a cop's face in gory detail.
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Renfield (2023) / int_6654b17b	featureConfidence	1.0
Renfield (2023)	hasFeature	Renfield (2023) / int_6654b17b
Renfield (2023) / int_6858aca8	type	Punctuated Pounding
Renfield (2023) / int_6858aca8	comment	Punctuated Pounding: Done in the final battle by Renfield, using his support group mantra.
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Renfield (2023) / int_69cce3dc	type	Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!
Renfield (2023) / int_69cce3dc	comment	Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!: Renfield tries to talk Teddy out of working with Dracula by saying he'll just become Dracula's slave like he did. Teddy starts to blow him off, saying that his master wouldâ€¦ and then he stops the thought there, realizing what he just said.
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Renfield (2023) / int_69fb91e8	type	Chewing the Scenery
Renfield (2023) / int_69fb91e8	comment	Chewing the Scenery: Itâ€™s Nicolas Cage playing a comedic version of Dracula, this was inevitable.
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Renfield (2023) / int_6a47a1e2	type	Knight of Cerebus
Renfield (2023) / int_6a47a1e2	comment	Knight of Cerebus: While he's not without his humorous moments, the tone of the movie tends to become more serious when Count Dracula gets involved.
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Renfield (2023) / int_6b35bdff	type	Serious Business
Renfield (2023) / int_6b35bdff	comment	To drive the point home, Caitlyn, the woman at the support group who is trying to recover from a breakup with her abusive ex-boyfriend, describes things similar to what Renfield goes through. Like Dracula, her ex convinced her it was them against the world to further isolate her and endear himself to her, and like Dracula, her ex got her on board with things she wouldn't have agreed to on her own. (Though in Renfield's case, it's murder. In Caitlyn's, it's listening to ska music.)
Renfield (2023) / int_6b35bdff	featureApplicability	1.0
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Renfield (2023) / int_6b6556ee	type	Mentor Occupational Hazard
Renfield (2023) / int_6b6556ee	comment	Mentor Occupational Hazard: Mark, the leader of the support group, is killed by Dracula, though he and the rest of the support group are brought back by Dracula's blood later.
Renfield (2023) / int_6b6556ee	featureApplicability	1.0
Renfield (2023) / int_6b6556ee	featureConfidence	1.0
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Renfield (2023) / int_6dcbe9aa	type	Deconstructive Parody
Renfield (2023) / int_6dcbe9aa	comment	Deconstructive Parody: The film is a comedic take on the classic Bram Stoker Dracula novel. It deconstructs the very relationship between Dracula and his servant Renfield. The movie shows how the connection between a literal monster and someone he forcibly turns into his mindless henchman could become an abusive, emotionally manipulative, and co-dependent relationship over time. From that point on, the story is about Renfield breaking free from Dracula's control, adapting to modern times, forming a sincere relationship with someone, and learning he is enough, as himself, to be happy.
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Renfield (2023) / int_71152dd	type	One Dialogue, Two Conversations
Renfield (2023) / int_71152dd	comment	One Dialogue, Two Conversations: Renfield shows up to kidnap Mitchell, Caitlyn's abusive ex-boyfriend, and feed him to Dracula, but Mitchell and his friends assume he's a mob hitman sent to kill them for stealing the Lobos' cocaine.
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Renfield (2023) / int_71748a39	type	Named by the Adaptation
Renfield (2023) / int_71748a39	comment	Named by the Adaptation: The title character is known only as "R. M. Renfield" in the original book. His first two names are given for this adaptation as Robert Montague.
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Renfield (2023) / int_729c69f3	type	Politically Incorrect Villain
Renfield (2023) / int_729c69f3	comment	Politically Incorrect Villain: The assassin Renfield fights in the beginning of the movie while trying to get Mitchell is named "Apache Joe", according to Teddy while calling an associate. The friend makes a point on how racist it is for a presumably White hitman to name himself after a Native American tribe, but as Teddy points out, the man is a behemoth with a tendency slice out the tongues of his victims with a hunting knife, so any attempts to say so are done at one's own risk.
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Renfield (2023) / int_736d791f	type	Adaptational Badass
Renfield (2023) / int_736d791f	comment	Adaptational Badass: Renfield in the novel Dracula was an insane human who was kept incarcerated in an asylum most of the time. This version has superhuman powers and is capable of trouncing multiple opponents at the same time.
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Renfield (2023) / int_773b0523	type	Impaled Palm
Renfield (2023) / int_773b0523	comment	Impaled Palm: Renfield prevents Dracula from biting into Rebecca by covering his mouth with both hands. Dracula just grows his fangs longer until they punch right through.
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Renfield (2023) / int_77538ed4	type	Admiring the Abomination
Renfield (2023) / int_77538ed4	comment	Admiring the Abomination: Mandy Lobo, a Lobo family underling who is revealed in a deleted scene to be Teddy's younger sister, applauds like a fangirl when she sees Renfield butcher Lobo family thugs at his apartment.
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Renfield (2023) / int_77b009ea	type	Phrase Catcher
Renfield (2023) / int_77b009ea	comment	Kyle who keeps being told "Fuck you, Kyle!"
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Renfield (2023) / int_7860d036	type	Get It Over With
Renfield (2023) / int_7860d036	comment	When Teddy offers to spare Rebecca's life if she admits that his family owns her, just like they own the city, she instead irritably tells him to Get It Over With.
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Renfield (2023) / int_786afb29	type	Looks Like Cesare
Renfield (2023) / int_786afb29	comment	Looks Like Cesare: Nicolas Cage's Dracula, as seen in the trailer, is the classic pale-with-sunken-eyes archetype.
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Renfield (2023) / int_7a2d9301	type	Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure
Renfield (2023) / int_7a2d9301	comment	Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure: While everyone seems to know who Dracula is, nobody ever makes the connection to the name Renfield despite him never using an alias. That said, Renfield is seldom the focus of past versions of the Dracula tale (the most focus he ever got was in a parody)!
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Renfield (2023) / int_7e6c0522	type	Off with His Head!
Renfield (2023) / int_7e6c0522	comment	Off with His Head!: Renfield accidentally punches Apache Joe's head off while fighting him. Teddy shows off his new powers to his mother by beheading the New Orleans police chief.
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Renfield (2023) / int_82a60dce	type	Signature Laugh
Renfield (2023) / int_82a60dce	comment	Signature Laugh: Renfield does this briefly during his encounter with Mitch and his goons.
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Renfield (2023) / int_82f5ced1	type	Conservation of Ninjutsu
Renfield (2023) / int_82f5ced1	comment	Conservation of Ninjutsu: Renfield has far more trouble fighting Teddy than the rest of Dracula's new familiars. Justified given that Renfield's Hour of Power wore off during the fight.
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Renfield (2023) / int_830b0ac9	type	Final Battle
Renfield (2023) / int_830b0ac9	comment	Dracula's blood has the power to heal wounds. Rebecca uses this to save Renfield's life during the Final Battle, and it's later used offscreen to resurrect Rebecca's sister and Renfield's support group.
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Renfield (2023) / int_83446504	type	Ska
Renfield (2023) / int_83446504	comment	Several characters hate ska music, with one cop cursing that it's not dead yet and Caitlyn realizing how messed up she is when she tries to defend it, because her abusive boyfriend loves it.
Renfield (2023) / int_83446504	featureApplicability	1.0
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Renfield (2023) / int_8967e17f	type	Back from the Dead
Renfield (2023) / int_8967e17f	comment	Back from the Dead: Renfield uses Dracula's blood to resurrect the support group that Dracula murdered. Mark, the support group leader, still has memories of the other side and is visibly disturbed by them.
Renfield (2023) / int_8967e17f	featureApplicability	1.0
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Renfield (2023) / int_8b606a51	type	There Is No Kill Like Overkill
Renfield (2023) / int_8b606a51	comment	There Is No Kill Like Overkill: The Lobo gangsters and the police on their payroll are sent to kill Rebecca and Renfield. They're not just killed off for their efforts, they're dismembered. One guy gets his face ripped off! They all end up in a bloody pile! Faced with the task of killing Dracula once he's captured, Renfield and Rebecca opt to mutilate his body in every possible way, encase whatever's left in cubes of cement and dump those into the sewer. Justified because, as Renfield points out, there's no single accepted way to kill a vampire and Dracula has returned from apparent death many times before.
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Renfield (2023) / int_8b6394c	type	These Are Things Man Was Not Meant to Know
Renfield (2023) / int_8b6394c	comment	These Are Things Man Was Not Meant to Know: Implied in the final scene. Renfield and Rebecca use Dracula's blood to resurrect the former's support group, and Mark remarks how they've "seen things that can't be unseen, know things that can't be unknown."
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Renfield (2023) / int_8cf6aa	type	Literal Metaphor
Renfield (2023) / int_8cf6aa	comment	Literal Metaphor: At the end of their confrontation, an empowered Renfield kicks a newly-turned Teddy so hard in the solar plexus that it violently empties out his bowels before dying. In other words, he literally kicked the shit out of him.
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Renfield (2023) / int_8d8ad95e	type	"Pop!" Goes the Human
Renfield (2023) / int_8d8ad95e	comment	"Pop!" Goes the Human: How Dracula kills the priest by making him explode into pieces.
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Renfield (2023) / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Renfield (2023) / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: When choosing potential victims for Dracula, Renfield tries to ensure that he only selects horrible people who have hurt others. Unfortunately, according to Dracula at least, their low character has a detrimental effect on their bloodâ€™s flavour.
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Renfield (2023) / int_9053903	type	Ignored Epiphany
Renfield (2023) / int_9053903	comment	Ignored Epiphany: Teddy appears to go through one of these when he instinctively refers to Dracula as "Master" during his battle with Renfield, proving that he's just the vampire's slave like his enemy was. He refuses to believe it, and his persistence in fighting Renfield only gets him killed.
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Renfield (2023) / int_91697559	type	Half the Man He Used to Be
Renfield (2023) / int_91697559	comment	Half the Man He Used to Be: Renfield jumps off the top floor of his apartment and stomps on a mook right down to the bottom floor, smashing his body in half in a squeamish sequence.
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Renfield (2023) / int_9591377d	type	Heel Realization
Renfield (2023) / int_9591377d	comment	Heel Realization: Sort of, since Renfield is already aware that he's a bad person working for a murderous vampire. He spends the entire film blaming Dracula for his actions and leaving his family, and while he is trapped in an abusive relationship with the vampire, Dracula points out that Renfield left his family due to his own moral weakness and desire for a better life. Renfield later admits to Rebecca that Dracula was right, that he chose to leave his family of his own free will, at which point he becomes more determined to actually stop Dracula.
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Renfield (2023) / int_973d220f	type	Never My Fault
Renfield (2023) / int_973d220f	comment	Never My Fault: When he finds out that Renfield has been doing good deeds with the powers he gave him, Dracula re-frames himself as the injured party in their toxic relationship, pointing out that they had only met because Renfield wanted to exploit him and it was Renfield's own moral weakness that led to him being his servant. When Renfield resists further, he marks the support group for death and then declares that his future campaign of death is Renfield's fault for his insolence.
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Renfield (2023) / int_978a82e6	type	Big Bad Duumvirate
Renfield (2023) / int_978a82e6	comment	Big Bad Duumvirate: Dracula is naturally the main villain, but he's eventually joined by Bellafrancesa Lobo, who allies her crime family with the vampire so they can both Take Over the World.
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Renfield (2023) / int_987dbb69	type	Vampire Hunter
Renfield (2023) / int_987dbb69	comment	Vampire Hunter: These are routinely dispatched by the Catholic Church to kill Dracula, with the Automatic Crossbow to match. A group of these and their bishop get wiped out in the beginning, but still injure Dracula so severely that he spends the next century recovering. It's implied that the Church sent more after Dracula anyway, as Dracula intends to destroy the Vatican as part of his world conquest, and Renfield mentions that at this point, they've been chased out of every country on Earth.
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Renfield (2023) / int_9e1e14ea	type	Ambition Is Evil
Renfield (2023) / int_9e1e14ea	comment	Ambition Is Evil: While Dracula seemed content with simply traveling and eating people throughout the years, Renfield inadvertently gives him the idea to take over the world, joining the Lobo Crime Family being his first step in world domination.note Then again, it was implied that Dracula's ultimate goal was world domination in the original book, too. According to Renfield's narration, this has always been a Fatal Flaw of his; every time he returns to full power, he can't help but go on a rampage, which just draws vampire hunters to his location and sets him back to square one.
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Renfield (2023) / int_9eb11fac	type	Weak, but Skilled
Renfield (2023) / int_9eb11fac	comment	Weak, but Skilled: Downplayed but Rebecca being a regular human puts her at a physical disadvantage against Dracula's powered-up minions. Her police training and marksmanship still allow her to fight them on fairly equal terms.
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Renfield (2023) / int_9f63d4f1	type	Our Vampires Are Different
Renfield (2023) / int_9f63d4f1	comment	Our Vampires Are Different: Dracula in this movie is more of a classic movie vampire, complete with the power to shapeshift into smoke or a swarm of bats, but also has an entire mouthful of razor-sharp teeth like more modern portrayals. It's implied that the difference between whether Dracula turns someone into another vampire or just a familiar is based on how much of his power he chooses to imbue them with. How exactly he does this in the first place is never really explained. For one thing, one of the traditional methods of turning someone, drinking a vampire's blood, instead just heals their injuries with no apparent side effects. Lampshaded in the epilogue: there's so much conflicting lore about how to permanently kill a vampire, that Renfield and Rebecca decide to just try everything (and even then, Renfield admits he's still not sure this will be permanent).
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Renfield (2023) / int_9f6fb586	type	Leitmotif
Renfield (2023) / int_9f6fb586	comment	Leitmotif: While it's very subtle, a rendition of an excerpt from Act II of Swan Lake (the main theme of the 1931 film) can be heard when Dracula enters a room. This is made more blunt in a Missing Trailer Scene which shows a Swan Lake record propped against a wall in their current hideout.
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Renfield (2023) / int_a0c7f4e9	type	Abandoned Hospital
Renfield (2023) / int_a0c7f4e9	comment	Abandoned Hospital: Dracula's lair is hidden inside the Charity Hospital, already a Real Life example of this trope.
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Renfield (2023) / int_a10775b7	type	Mean Boss
Renfield (2023) / int_a10775b7	comment	This wouldn't be the first time Cage had played a Mean Boss vampire, having played Peter Loew — a crazed, abusive yuppie who thought he was turning into a vampire (maybe) — in Vampire's Kiss. Ironically, Peter Loew was himself a modernized example of The Renfield.
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Renfield (2023) / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
Renfield (2023) / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: Renfield dearly regrets saving Dracula's life from vampire hunters all those years ago, since it led to many more innocent deaths. He also has this reaction to the support group's deaths by Dracula's hands, since Dracula only found and targeted them because they were Renfield's friends. Fortunately, he's able to resurrect them later.
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Renfield (2023) / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
Renfield (2023) / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Eye Scream: At one point, Renfield rips the eyeballs out of a cop's face.
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Renfield (2023) / int_a4d8473b	type	Stealth Sequel
Renfield (2023) / int_a4d8473b	comment	Stealth Sequel: The opening montage heavily implies that the film is actually a direct sequel to the 1931 film, with exact recreations of multiple scenes from that movie being shown with the new actors. In other words, Nic Cage's Dracula is likely the exact same character once played by Bela Lugosi.
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Renfield (2023) / int_a5fb0d24	type	Healing Factor
Renfield (2023) / int_a5fb0d24	comment	Healing Factor: Dracula's fangs grow back almost immediately after Renfield rips them out.
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Renfield (2023) / int_a621882	type	The Bad Guys Are Cops
Renfield (2023) / int_a621882	comment	The Bad Guys Are Cops: Aside from Rebecca, every officer at her precinct is either on the take from the Lobo gang or are too intimidated to go after them. Da Chief goes out of his way to shame Rebecca for challenging this status quo, and there are no other cops willing to go to bat for her. It crosses fully into this trope when it's revealed that all of the cops on the force are on the take, and they spend the rest of the movie trying to kill Rebecca and Renfield so they can't interfere with the Lobos anymore. Emphasis firmly on "try".
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Renfield (2023) / int_a6bd0685	type	Died in Your Arms Tonight
Renfield (2023) / int_a6bd0685	comment	Died in Your Arms Tonight: Mark, the last of the support group to die in the massacre, passes away in Renfield's arms.
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Renfield (2023) / int_a6cda066	type	Rule of Three
Renfield (2023) / int_a6cda066	comment	Rule of Three: The support group's affirmations are stated three times in the movie. The first time, the entire group is saying them, except for Renfield who doesn't see the point. The second time, Renfield insincerely stammers the affirmations in a weak attempt to stand up to Dracula. The final time, Renfield declares them sincerely as he punches Dracula's face in.
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Renfield (2023) / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Renfield (2023) / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Teddy's goes from casually accepting to quietly panicking when he hears his mother specifically wants to meet him downstairs in the Torture Cellar, realizing she's clearly pissed at him.
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Renfield (2023) / int_b1c9f316	type	The Big Easy
Renfield (2023) / int_b1c9f316	comment	The Big Easy: The main plot is set in New Orleans, and you can tell. Renfield uses the abandoned Charity Hospital as a hideout for Dracula, and Rebecca mentions CafÃ© du Monde while trying to set up a meeting with her sister.
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Renfield (2023) / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Renfield (2023) / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: Caitlyn, from Renfieldâ€™s support group, has an abusive junkie boyfriend named Mitch, and one of her major grievances with him is his love for Ska music, which other characters equally dislike.
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Renfield (2023) / int_b61f1b2b	type	TouchÃ©
Renfield (2023) / int_b61f1b2b	comment	TouchÃ©: Bellafrancesa Lobo merely offers an amused touche to Rebecca when the latter arrests her and throws her insistence that "Success is the best revenge" back in her face.
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Renfield (2023) / int_b773ec0e	type	DidNotThinkThisThrough
Renfield (2023) / int_b773ec0e	comment	Did Not Think This Through: Given that Renfield has been Draculaâ€™s servant for the better part of a century and is therefore very familiar with Vampire lore, you have to wonder what possessed him to have a welcome mat at his apartment with an open invitation for anyone to enter.
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Renfield (2023) / int_b91eaeea	type	Must Be Invited
Renfield (2023) / int_b91eaeea	comment	Must Be Invited: Dracula arrives at the support group Renfield has been attending right as he's trying to get them all to leave. Renfield has a Big "NO!" as the group leader invites Dracula inside. Played With in an earlier scene, where Dracula confronts Renfield at the latter's apartment. He's able to get in before Renfield because of the "Welcome! Come on in!" mat in front of the door.
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Renfield (2023) / int_b9f472b	type	Storming the Castle
Renfield (2023) / int_b9f472b	comment	Storming the Castle: Renfield and Rebecca attack the Lobo family's hideout and fight their way through an army of mobsters to kill Dracula and save Rebecca's sister.
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Renfield (2023) / int_ba0e3912	type	Power Nullifier
Renfield (2023) / int_ba0e3912	comment	Power Nullifier: The primary function of the protective circle shown in the prologue. Our heroes finally deal with Dracula by making a new one out of cocaine.
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Renfield (2023) / int_bcbb5596	type	Not Afraid of You Anymore
Renfield (2023) / int_bcbb5596	comment	Not Afraid of You Anymore: During the final battle, Renfield recites his support group's affirmation while delivering a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown to Dracula and declaring that the vampire only has power because of him, which he's taking back.
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Renfield (2023) / int_be15f78c	type	Any Last Words?
Renfield (2023) / int_be15f78c	comment	Any Last Words?: Renfield and Rebecca ask Dracula if he has any last words after trapping him in the sacred circle. Dracula, knowing he's beaten, declares he's looking forward to spending a season in Hell, "Where the amusing people are." Then he throws up the horns and declares "HAIL SATAN!" before they cut him down.
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Renfield (2023) / int_beb9a361	type	Anti-Hero
Renfield (2023) / int_beb9a361	comment	Anti-Hero: By his own admission, Renfield isn't much of a hero, having delivered victims to Dracula for years. However, he's totally disgusted with himself and what he's become, tries to steer Dracula towards people who deserve it, and only sticks around because Dracula's trapped him in a codependent and abusive relationship that he's too scared to leave. The second he starts to believe there is a way he can move forward without the Count, he takes it gladly. He's still pretty vicious with his fighting, but he fights for the right reason.
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Renfield (2023) / int_c25c7890	type	Fun with Acronyms
Renfield (2023) / int_c25c7890	comment	Fun with Acronyms: The support group Renfield attends is called DRAAG (Dependent Relationship Addiction Anonymous Group).
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Renfield (2023) / int_c3945f1f	type	Rustproof Blood
Renfield (2023) / int_c3945f1f	comment	Rustproof Blood: At the end of the movie, Renfield fills a pitcher with Dracula's blood to resurrect as many people as he can. It's still red and liquid after spending about a whole day at room temperature, although this could be hand-waved as due to its supernatural qualities.
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Renfield (2023) / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
Renfield (2023) / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: After Renfield manages to open up to the support group, minus the "vampire" bit, his life takes a definite upturn. He becomes closer with Rebecca and makes friends with his fellow support group attendees, gets his own apartment, is well-liked by his neighbors, changes up his wardrobe, decorates his home in bright and cheerful colors and affirmations, starts educating himself on the abuse he's suffered and how to heal from it, and overall begins to thrive in his new life. Then Dracula finds him.
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Renfield (2023) / int_c67af1b0	type	Big Bad Wannabe
Renfield (2023) / int_c67af1b0	comment	Big Bad Wannabe: Teddy Lobo desperately wants to be feared and respected as a gangster, but he's too much of a spineless tool to genuinely pull it off. He even fancies himself Dracula's partner, when really he's just The Renfield like Renfield was.
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Renfield (2023) / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Renfield (2023) / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Renfield kills Teddy by giving him a kick to the torso that explodes his insides, causing him to vomit blood and shit himself at the same time. When the kick is delivered, it switches to an X-ray shot of the organs exploding in slow-motion, highly similar to the X-Ray Moves/Krushing Blows in modern Mortal Kombat games. When criticising ska music, the ska bands Caitlyn specifically names are Fishbone, Mustard Plug, and Voodoo Glow Skulls.
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Renfield (2023) / int_c8b3e136	type	Moody Trailer Cover Song
Renfield (2023) / int_c8b3e136	comment	Moody Trailer Cover Song: The Red Band trailer manages to do this with the already moody "Creep".
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Renfield (2023) / int_c93a6560	type	Impaled with Extreme Prejudice
Renfield (2023) / int_c93a6560	comment	Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: While fighting mobsters and corrupt cops, Renfield impales two with the arms he tore off a third.
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Renfield (2023) / int_ca967579	type	Torture Cellar
Renfield (2023) / int_ca967579	comment	Torture Cellar: The Lobo family has a large room in their basement with walls covered in various power tools and medieval weapons to torture people with. While Bellafrancesca is chewing out her son, someone can be seen being vivisected in the background.
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Renfield (2023) / int_cc7e9502	type	Humans Are Insects
Renfield (2023) / int_cc7e9502	comment	Humans Are Insects: Dracula describes humanity is being a planet populated exclusively by "Renfields" (weak, submissive cattle) and sees them as nothing more than people to kill and enslave at his leisure.
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Renfield (2023) / int_d1fc4a16	comment	Please Spare Him, My Liege!: Renfield begs Dracula not to hurt the support group, saying they're good people. Unfortunately, that just makes Dracula want to kill them even more, as the blood of good people tastes better to him. Plus, the fact that they're dear to Renfield and provide him with a support system and a life outside of Dracula is the precise reason Dracula wants them gone. Isolating the victim from anyone who wants to help them and preventing them from making connections with others is Domestic Abuser 101.
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Renfield (2023) / int_d44ea142	comment	You Are Not Alone: The point of the support group Renfield attends for people in codependent abusive relationships is to give people a safe place to air their grievances, relate to other people who have been through something similar, and learn how to extract themselves from their bad situations. When Renfield tells them a slightly edited version of what he's been through, the group is extremely sympathetic and encouraging, literally cheering him on as he tries to take his life back. Two women in the group are also seen hanging out outside of the group, having developed a friendship from their shared experiences. In the end, Renfield is still attending the group, and hopes his story can help other people get out of their own toxic relationships.
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Renfield (2023) / int_d5d976dd	comment	I Have Many Names: Invoked when Dracula crashes Renfield's support group.
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Renfield (2023) / int_db33bc7e	comment	Ludicrous Gibs: And how. Every action sequence plays up the destructive nature of Renfield's powers for all they're worth, leading to copious amounts of blood and viscera.
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Renfield (2023) / int_db4b76d1	comment	Pre-Asskicking One-Liner: Renfield utters this one just before putting the hurt on the abusive ex-boyfriend of a woman in the support group. He also gets another when a neighbor tells him he's a "bad man," just before he goes after the Lobo crime family and a swarm of corrupt cops. Teddy actually manages to get a badass one in:
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Renfield (2023) / int_db9940c4	comment	Famed In-Story: Everyone seems to know who Dracula is, though it's not clear from what, since they've never heard of Renfield.
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Renfield (2023) / int_dc1761bd	comment	A God Am I: Dracula openly compares his abilities to a God, part of his ambitions for world domination being based off of this inflated sense of self.
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Renfield (2023) / int_dcb9c541	comment	The ambiguity in Renfield and Rebecca's relationship at the end of the film. She's at the support group with him, but there's no indication they're dating or otherwise romantically involved, despite the heavy Ship Tease throughout the film. Most recovery programs, especially for abusive relationships, will recommend not getting into a new relationship for some time, so the abuse victim can work on themselves, heal, and find a fulfilling relationship instead of falling immediately into another abusive one. Note that the group is specifically "Dependant Relationship Addict Anonymous Group."
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Renfield (2023) / int_e16cd24e	type	Know When to Fold 'Em
Renfield (2023) / int_e16cd24e	comment	Know When to Fold 'Em: When Bellafrancesa Lobo is arrested at the end, she goes quietly, having lost all of her goons and any backing from Dracula. She simply gives a dignified "Touche" when Rebecca quips her own words back at her.
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Renfield (2023) / int_e28f88b8	type	Last-Name Basis
Renfield (2023) / int_e28f88b8	comment	Last-Name Basis: Although Renfield gives his full name multiple times to multiple characters (Robert Montague Renfield), no one in the movie ever uses anything but his last name.
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Renfield (2023) / int_e4965307	comment	Composite Character: As in the 1931 film, Renfield's backstory is changed so that he was a British lawyer who came to help Dracula buy up land, much like Jonathan Harker. In fact, the opening scene is from the 1931 Dracula film, with Cage and Hoult's heads digitally inserted.
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Renfield (2023) / int_e8b295de	comment	Played With in an earlier scene, where Dracula confronts Renfield at the latter's apartment. He's able to get in before Renfield because of the "Welcome! Come on in!" mat in front of the door.
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Renfield (2023) / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: A protective circle has to be made with powder and the proper Latin words. Nowhere is it stated that a specific kind of powder has to be used. During the climax, Rebecca makes a protective circle out of cocaine.
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Renfield (2023) / int_eb251937	comment	Dirty Cop: It is eventually revealed that just about every cop in Rebeccaâ€™s precinct, save for Rebecca herself, is on the Lobosâ€™ payroll.
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Renfield (2023) / int_ec0bf4a1	comment	Take Over the World: Following the massacre at Mulates, Dracula reveals to Renfield that he has decided to conquer the planetâ€¦ with a plan that mostly involves drinking blood and finding more sycophants like Renfield. The plan becomes a little more concrete when Dracula aligns himself with the Lobos due to Teddy's promise that they can give him an army.
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Renfield (2023) / int_ec9a5f50	type	Deconstructed Character Archetype
Renfield (2023) / int_ec9a5f50	comment	Deconstructed Character Archetype: Renfield is this to...well, The Renfield. Renfield the character shows that a servant like him forcibly turned into a mindless henchman can, over time, be transformed into a disillusioned and passive partner in the middle of an abusive relationship.
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Renfield (2023) / int_eec07b6f	comment	Sackhead Slasher: The contract killer Renfield encounters, Apache Joe, sports a patchwork sack mask and deals primarily in bladed weapons.
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Renfield (2023) / int_f17eb909	type	Somewhere, an Entomologist Is Crying
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Renfield (2023) / int_f42f96fa	comment	Would Hit a Girl: All of the Lobo gang members and bought-off police they send after Rebecca and Renfield. They pay for it dearly.
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Renfield (2023) / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
Renfield (2023) / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: Carol, a member of Renfield's support group, constantly gets her stories interrupted by Renfield, to her frustration. A cop named Kyle is always being told "Fuck you, Kyle!" Several characters hate ska music, with one cop cursing that it's not dead yet and Caitlyn realizing how messed up she is when she tries to defend it, because her abusive boyfriend loves it.
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Renfield (2023) / int_fb6b207f	type	You Killed My Father
Renfield (2023) / int_fb6b207f	comment	You Killed My Father: Rebecca lost her father to the Lobos.
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Renfield (2023) / int_fccd06b6	type	Beware the Nice Ones
Renfield (2023) / int_fccd06b6	comment	Beware the Nice Ones: Although Renfield is a likeable guy trying to get out of a bad relationship, he's still very good at kidnapping and murdering people for his master. When Teddy Lobo and his gang breaks into his and Dracula's hideout, they're horrified to discover the piles of corpses. Later, Rebecca's sister describes him as much worse than the Lobos, a prolific international serial killer who's been operating for decades.
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Renfield (2023) / int_fdf22cfd	type	Evil Is Hammy
Renfield (2023) / int_fdf22cfd	comment	Evil Is Hammy: The obvious result of combining Nic Cage and Dracula, which results in much of the film's humor while at the same time not diminishing his menace.
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Renfield (2023) / int_fe6c146e	type	The Corrupter
Renfield (2023) / int_fe6c146e	comment	The Corrupter: The film plays up this aspect of Dracula's personality. Renfield outright says that the vampire's greatest power isn't supernatural, but his ability to bring out the worst in people and exploit their desires to bring them under his control. This is most blatantly seen with Teddy Lobo, who drops his previous apprehension towards violence and killing once he gets some of Dracula's power.
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Renfield (2023) / int_ff7f34c5	type	Pet the Dog
Renfield (2023) / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Much of what Dracula does is textbook abusive boyfriend behavior, with physical violence, manipulation, coercion, and threats mixed in with meager Pet the Dog moments that keep Renfield hooked and thinking maybe, maybe Dracula can change and actually does care about him.
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Renfield (2023) / int_ffad4e9f	type	Shown Their Work
Renfield (2023) / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: Everything about Reinfield and Dracula's relationship is perfectly reflective of how co-dependent relationships actually function. Dracula tells Renfield they're together because of Renfield, not Dracula, dismisses Renfield's attempts to establish boundaries and assert himself, claims invulnerability then pivots and insists Renfield is the abuser and Dracula the victim, belittles Renfield and ultimately threatens violence, all real-life tactics of abusers to retain control of their victims. It's also pointed out in the film that co-dependent relationships aren't limited to romantic ones, even if that is what's most commonly thought of. A friend, co-worker, or boss could be a toxic narcissist and abuse a co-dependent in exactly the same way. Renfield even goes through literally the textbook steps of attempting to break free from such a relationship, reading from his guidebook to try and keep Dracula at bay before Dracula snatches it away. The ambiguity in Renfield and Rebecca's relationship at the end of the film. She's at the support group with him, but there's no indication they're dating or otherwise romantically involved, despite the heavy Ship Tease throughout the film. Most recovery programs, especially for abusive relationships, will recommend not getting into a new relationship for some time, so the abuse victim can work on themselves, heal, and find a fulfilling relationship instead of falling immediately into another abusive one. Note that the group is specifically "Dependant Relationship Addict Anonymous Group."
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