Earlier this month I told you about a vampire flick with a cool lemon twist called RENFIELD: THE UNDEAD, a spin-off story about…Renfield. It’s going to premiere first at the Bram Stoker Vampire Fest in the UK in mid October which it’ll then make it’s way here in the states.
As we wait patiently for our boy Renfield to start slicing ladies’ jugulars with his fangs we’ll have the trailer for RENFIELD: THE UNDEAD to satisfy that hunger until it’s premiere. Feast on the trailer below and then take a gander at the official theatrical poster down below. While the trailer isn’t top notch A material it does stir things up for the Dracula mythos. It’s like a new spin on a washer: after watching it spin one way for about an hour why not let is spin the other way until you keel over with a headache. Same sh*t, different take.
R. N. Renfield (Nichols), once the slave of Dracula, is now an insane vampire stalking a modern metropolis (Bayou City). Known as “The Bayou City Butcher”, he is pursued by Detective Paul Cranston, a driven homicide investigator who always gets his man.
Renfield is also sought by Mina Harker (newcomer Roxy Cook), now also a vampire, and her hybrid-vampire son, Quincy (Tackett). The dark pair are seeking a relic in Renfield’s possession: the skull of Dracula. It is their intent to use the skull to resurrect Dracula and restore the house of Dracula.
It is a game of cat and mouse in which the mad vampire Renfield reveals his ancient past with the Vampire Lord Dracula and battles the forces of darkness and the mortals of Bayou City.