History Film / Renfield2023

[[caption-width-right:350:''[[TagLineBehind every great monster is an overworked sidekick.]]'']]

[[caption-width-right:350:''Stop serving. Start living.'']]

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* AnyLastWords: [[spoiler:Renfield and Rebecca ask Dracula if he has any last words after trapping him in the sacred circle. Dracula, knowing he's beat, declares he's looking forward to spending a season in Hell, "Where the interesting people are." Then he ''throws up the horns'' and declares "HAIL SATAN!" before they cut him down.]]

** [[spoiler:Once Dracula realizes that he's already lost, he tells them how he's looking forward to meeting all of the "interesting people" in Hell and screams a defiant "Hail Satan!" right before Renfield strikes the killing blow.]]

->''I am enough, I deserve happiness, and I take full charge of my life.''

* AdmiringTheAbomination: Mandy, a Lobo family underling, applauds like a fangirl when she sees Renfield butcher Lobo family thugs at his apartment.

* {{Nepotism}}: It is blatantly obvious that the only reason Teddy isn't the communal punching bag of the Lobos is because he's the boss's son.
* NeverMyFault: When he finds out that Renfield has been doing good deeds with the powers he gave him, Dracula reframes himself as the injured party in their toxic relationship, pointing out that they had only met because Renfield wanted to exploit him and it was Renfield's own moral weakness that led to him being his servant. When Renfield resists further, he marks the support group for death and then declares that his future campaign of death is Renfield's fault for his insolence.

** One to the original ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'' novel. Rebecca's father is named Morris Quincy, a reference to Quincey Morris, an American cowboy and one of Lucy Westenra's suitors from ''Dracula'' who helped defeat the Count.

* AndThisIsFor: When he prepares to kill Mitchell, Doug, and their friends and bring them to Dracula for feeding, Renfield introduces himself as "a friend of Caitlyn's," meaning it as a PreAssKickingOneLiner. They're not too intimidated, until they see Renfield in action.

'''Renfield:''' [[PreAssKickingOneLiner Sometimes, that comes in handy.]]

* PreAssKickingOneLiner:

** An earlier scene shows Dracula inexplicably inside Renfield's apartment. When Renfield is about to ask how he got in, he simply points to the doormat saying [[DidntThinkThisThrough "Welcome! Come on in!"]]
** PlayedWith when [[spoiler:Dracula confronts Renfield at the latter's apartment. He's able to get in before Renfield because of the welcome mat in front of the door.]]

* Corpsing: Dracula when he sees Renfield's new rainbow sweater. Pun very much intended.

* AdaptationalProtagonist: ''Renfield'' is a HorrorComedy movie based on ''Film/BramStokersDracula'' (1897), that surprisingly brings to the spotlight a lesser character of the book: Renfield, Dracula's sycophantic familiar. ''Renfield'' focuses on the master-servant[=/=]slave relationship between the vampire lord and TheRenfield, but from the point of view of the latter, and how such a relationship can be psychologically detrimental to the familiar, who is exploited by his master.

** When criticising ska music, the ska bands Caitlyn specifically names are Music/Fishbone, Mustard Plug and Voodoo Glow Skulls.

* ShoutOut: [[spoiler:Renfield kills Teddy by giving him a kick to the torso that explodes his insides, causing him to vomit blood and shit himself at the same time. When the kick is delivered, it switches to an X-ray shot of the organs exploding in slow-motion, highly similar to the X-Ray Moves/Krushing Blows in modern ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' games.]]

* MilkingTheGiantCow: Rebecca’s hands will ''not'' stay lower her shoulders in any given scene. Not even when one of her shoulders is injured.

--> "I am ENOUGH! And I HAVE ENOUGH! And I TAKE CONTROL! Of MY LIFE! TODAY!"

* PickyPeopleEater: Dracula, of course, favors blood and prefers the blood of morally pure people. This conflicts with Renfield's desire to only feed him evil people.

* FacialHorror: Renfield tears the skin off a cops face in gory detail.

* FacialHorror: Renfield tears the skin off a cops face in gory detai.