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Pre-release
The film will somehow hang a lampshade on how everyone always misattributes Renfield's "yes master" mannerisms to Frankenstein's henchmen for some reason
And if they further acknowledged that the hunchback who served Frankenstein was actually names Fritz, not Igor, well that would just be the cherry on top.The mobsters wearing wolf masks in the trailer will end up becoming werewolves.
Once Renfield makes an enemy of both Dracula and the mobsters, the former will recruit the latter to hunt down their mutual enemy. It's likely he would give them supernatural powers to make them a more formidable army and possibly to hold greater sway over them.- Jossed. While Dracula does imbue the Lobo mobsters with his power, they only demonstrate the same abilities as Renfield and show no hint of lycanthropy.
The whole movie is another attempt at a Universal Monsters Cinematic Universe
At some point a police detective named Halsey or something contacts his relatives that still use their original surname - Van Helsing.- Actually, the cop Awkwafina plays had the last name Quincy, so…
- A classic character making his/her appearance or mention. For example Alucard, Dracula or someone mentions his melancholic but less malicious daughter, or recommend Renfield to work for her, and saying she already have a manservant, a guy named Larry Talbot living in America and called to Wales among others.
- Jossed. The movie is self-contained to the Dracula mythos with no explicit references to any of the other monsters.
There will be a reference to the events in The Mummy (2017)
- As a character mentions a sandstorm that destroyed London years ago.
- A post credit scene after Dracula's possible defeat, which have him not only alive, but planning to make an alliance with Ahmanet, the Mummy.
- Dracula's Daughter appears and steals Dracula's rests (if he dies) to Prodigium.
- Jossed. There is no mention of the Dark Universe whatsoever.
This movie takes place in the same universe in the classic Universal Horror timeline.
- Semi-confirmed? At the very least, it's set in a timeline where the events of Dracula (1931) happened in some fashion. Either this is an alternate universe where Dracula and Renfield did not perish at the end of that film, or Dracula somehow came back to life and revived Renfield after the events of the film played out.
- Renfield seems to have Jonathan Harker's backstory instead of the original Renfield.
Post-release theories
The bishop killed by Dracula at the beginning was Charley Brewster himself
- He grew and became a vampire hunter under the Catholic church's service. But this time he was against the Prince of Darkness himself...
Dracula will return in a sequel
- Because even Renfield implied that he would return, but in a long time.
Will be a prequel, centered on other novel characters.
- As Lucy, Van Helsing, Jonathan Harker, Mina, Dracula's brides, or even the Count himself, in a prequel.
A posterior movie would be...
- About Dracula and the entire movie as part of the Dark Universe, he will return and he will manipulate a red gemstone possesed Nick Morton to make his minion as the god of death (or Death himself), similar to Franchise/Castlevania Renfield, Cecilia Kass and other monsters (probably The Wolf Man, Frankenstein's Monster, Dracula's Daughter, the Phantom among others) will be heroes.
In the sequel, the main villains will be Dracula's brides
- They will seek revenge.
If is true about this movie being set in the Universal Horror, Dracula survived to being staked and burned in his movie and Dracula's Daughter
- Because Renfield says that Dracula survived or resurrected to worse things, maybe when he's burning after his daughter leave, the stake evicted from his chest, and he awakened, carbonized like in the movie, and after regenerated sucking some blood, he resurrected Renfield. After all, she burned him by night...
It’s not just eating bugs that grants Renfield and other familiars power.
- Because really, it’d be very typical of this version of Dracula to insist that Renfield must demean himself by eating bugs to even slightly approach his own power.
- That would actually imply they're both full vampires. Meaning there's also no need for Dracula to feed off humans.
