Renfield Is Stuck in a Toxic Workplace Relationship With Dracula



A celebrated vampire’s acquainted volition not tolerate abusive attraction from his boss. Nicholas Hoult is Renfield, Count Dracula’s (Nicolas Cage) devoted servant who, wrong the trailer to Universal Pictures’ Renfield, barges into an abusive-dating assistance radical to vent astir his grasp’s behavior. As helium describes his “poisonous dating” to the attendees, images of his menial duties flicker passim the show screen. Renfield is astatine Dracula’s beck and contact, accumulating humans for him to devour (in this case, nuns and a busload of cheerleaders) and putting disconnected their our bodies. One nighttime connected the hunt, Renfield uses the preventing powers Dracula has bestowed connected him — brought astir by utilizing consuming a fewer bugs — to prevention you a taking pictures astatine a adjacent Cajun restaurant, impressing and befriending a constabulary serviceman (Awkwafina) successful the strategy and opening up to her astir his process. “You’re conscionable similar the antheral who gets the villain’s Postmates,” she says. At the assistance institution, Renfield realizes that helium could sincerely bash the bare minimal astatine his process (i.E., starve the aged vamp truthful helium gained’t “grow to implicit power”) aft which he’ll beryllium loose. Dracula, though, gained’t transverse down without a combat; this brag volition present not tolerate quiescent quitting. Renfield flies into theaters connected April 14.