Since its announcement we have all been waiting to see Nicolas Cage as Dracula and we finally can in Renfield movie. The film tells the story of Dracula’s minion Renfield in modern-day New Orleans. Renfield focuses on the dynamic between Dracula (Cage) and Renfield (Nicholas Hoult) and also Renfield’s relationship with a traffic cop Rebecca Quincy (Awkwafina) as Renfield decides to leave his days of slavery for Count Dracula behind. So, if you like the film here are some dark comedies you could watch next.
Dracula: Dead and Loving It (Rent on Prime Video)
Synopsis: A comic reinvention of the Bela Lugosi classic about a Transylvanian vampire who works his evil spell on a perplexed group of Londoners. Mel Brooks’s Count is a pratfalling evil prince of a guy who believes in long relationships. Brooks portrays vampire hunter Van Helsing, who won’t give a bloodsucker an even break.
Vampire’s Kiss (Tubi)
Synopsis: After a young publishing executive is bitten by a seductive woman, he is convinced he is turning into a vampire but as his madness deepens and begins to live the role, he starts to question what is real and what are hallucinations.
What We Do in the Shadows (Rent on Prime Video)
Synopsis: Flatmates Viago (Taika Waititi), Deacon (Jonny Brugh), and Vladislav (Jemaine Clement) are three vampires who are just trying to get by in modern society; from paying rent and sticking to the housework roster to trying to get invited in to nightclubs, they’re just like anyone else – except they’re immortal and must feast on human blood.
When their 8000 year-old flatmate Petyr, turns 20-something human hipster Nick, into a vampire, the guys must teach him the ropes and guide him through his new found eternal life. And in return they are forced to learn a thing or two about modern society, fashions, technology, and the internet. But it’s the introduction of Nick’s human friend, Stu, that really changes the vampire’s lives and attitudes towards the ever-changing world around them. When Stu’s life is threatened, the vamps show us that maybe humans are worth fighting for, and that even though your heart may be cold and dead, it doesn’t mean you can’t feel anything.
Ready Or Not (Rent on Prime Video)
Synopsis: “Ready or Not” follows a young bride (Samara Weaving) as she joins her new husband’s (Mark O’Brien) rich, eccentric family (Adam Brody, Henry Czerny, Andie MacDowell) in a time-honored tradition that turns into a lethal game with everyone fighting for their survival.
American Psycho (Prime Video & Hulu)
Synopsis: Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale) is a wall street yuppie, obsessed with success, status, and style, with a stunning fiancée (Reese Witherspoon). He is also a psychotic killer who rapes, murders, and dismembers both strangers and acquaintances without provocation or purpose. Based on the controversial novel, the film offers a sharp satire to the dark side of yuppie culture in the ’80s, while setting forth a vision that is both terrifying and chilling.
Dark Shadows (Rent on Prime Video)
Synopsis: Continuing their creative and commercially incandescent partnership (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Sleepy Hollow, Edward Scissorhands), superstar Johnny Depp and macabre movie master Tim Burton reunite yet again in this silver screen adaptation of the cult classic supernatural soap opera that follows the life and loves of New England vampire Barnabas Collins. Also starring Michelle Pfeiffer (Batman Returns), Eva Green (Camelot), Helena Bonham Carter (Harry Potter) and Australian newcomer Bella Heathcote as a young woman who finds herself inexplicably entwined in the vampire’s fated love story two centuries earlier, DARK SHADOWS brings to light Depp’s vampire from 1752 into the lava lamped vamp camp of 1972!
Sweeney Todd (Tubi)
Synopsis: Johnny Depp and director Tim Burton reteam following their worldwide blockbuster Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to bring a Broadway masterpiece to the big screen–Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Based on true events, this darkly comic musical tale tells the story of London barber Benjamin Barker (Depp–Finding Neverland, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) unjustly sentenced to a prison term in Australia by a judge who covets Barker’s wife. When Barker returns to England, he takes up his former profession, using the name Sweeney Todd–and slits the throats of customers who come into his shop. Now, while Sweeney confronts the problem of accumulating corpses, a local businesswoman finds a novel and enterprising use for the bodies . . . a bloody business that profits them both. Stephen Sondheim’s Broadway musical is based on the book Sweeney Todd by Christopher Wood and the play Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street by Christopher Bond. The book for the Broadway musical is by Hugh Wheeler.
