Director: Chris McKay
Centuries of loyal service to the world's most famous vampire have left their mark, and Renfield turns that servitude into the engine of a horror comedy about finally quitting a toxic boss.
What is Renfield about?
Nicholas Hoult plays the title character, a familiar bound to Nicolas Cage's Dracula, who has spent generations fetching victims and cleaning up after his master's excesses. The 2023 film catches Renfield at a breaking point: therapy-speak, self-help groups, and a chance encounter with a New Orleans traffic cop start to pull him toward the idea that he might deserve better than eternal servitude. What follows leans hard into splatter-comedy set pieces, using Renfield's superhuman strength (a side effect of eating bugs) to stage fights that are as absurd as they are gory. Cage plays Dracula with theatrical relish, treating every scene as an opportunity for grand, wounded-ego menace, while Hoult keeps the film grounded by playing Renfield's exhaustion and hope as sincerely human. Awkwafina rounds out the cast as the cop drawn into Renfield's orbit, and Shohreh Aghdashloo appears as the head of a local crime family caught in the fallout.
Cast & crew
Nicholas Hoult carries the film as Renfield opposite Nicolas Cage's Dracula, with Awkwafina, Ben Schwartz, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Brandon Scott Jones, Adrian Martinez, and Camille Chen filling out the supporting cast.
Context & significance
Renfield arrived in 2023 as a horror-comedy take on Dracula lore, directed by Chris McKay, reframing the familiar sidekick character as the story's reluctant hero rather than a background figure. The film leans into over-the-top violence and workplace-abuse metaphors in roughly equal measure, positioning itself as a comedy first and a monster movie second.
Where & how to watch
Renfield is available on K-Time with both Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, so viewers can choose whichever fits their preference. This page is free to browse without logging in, and streaming the film requires a K-Time account built for a Farsi-first viewing experience.