Nicholas Hoult and Awkwafina co-star in this horror comedy with gross-outs and gimmicks galore but not much else.
But cut to today and we see that Renfield, a goth English boy stuck in derelict New Orleans, is about to have an awakening. He’s at a group therapy session for people trying to overcome codependency to the toxic, narcissistic personalities in their life. Amusingly enough, he ended up there just because he was out on the prowl, looking for more live flesh to feed to his convalescing master.is set in New Orleans, but it’s mostly shot on soundstages and generic slum streets. That’s okay.
It’s a strange role for Awkwafina , because she isn’t given a whole lot of room to show off her comedy chops, and her persona doesn’t quite lend itself to this kind of action hero. She plays a low-level traffic cop with a personal vendetta against the Lobo crime family , and when Renfield accidentally crosses paths with some of these scumbags, he trips everyone’s radar.
These disappointments are mitigated by a preposterous amount of blood and guts. Sure, it’s cheap CG that looks absolutely phony, but there are moments as giddy as the final act of Peter Jackson’s . There’s also many more ska jokes than you ever could have predicted. Fans of The Specials will be particularly entertained.lives or dies by Nic Cage camping it up. And he delivers. Cage in celadon-colored makeup craving the blood of cheerleaders “not for sexual reasons” is a cheap laugh, but a good laugh. The Academy Award-winning actor is well aware of what he’s bringing to the table these days, and sometimes a band should get out there and play the hits.
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