# "Renfield" with Nicholas Cage as Dracula **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [April 18, 2023, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/renfield-with-nicholas-cage-as-dracula/982853 "2023-04-18T16:40:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2023, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/renfield-with-nicholas-cage-as-dracula/982853/2 "2023-04-18T16:52:52Z")
I left a review over in the “Movies you’ve seen recently” thread: > [@Movies you've seen recently](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently/699906/6436): > > We saw Renfield. The five minutes of dialogue, about a guy who is easily influenced by narcissists was actually very nicely done. The other 85 minutes of action film were, I suppose, fairly well done if you appreciate the hardcore comic book, slaughterfest style (I was largely ambivalent) but I felt like the ratio of story to action was too extreme to really care about it. They went “wall of sound” with all of the sound effects so just hearing someone pop their knuckles sounded like a gun was b… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/renfield-with-nicholas-cage-as-dracula/982853)._