#OG renfield

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Renfield circa 1931

Renfield: Oh it's nothing serious. It's just a scratch.

*sucks finger sensually*

Shortly after:

In my quest to see as many Renfield depictions as possible, I've come to the 1931 Dracula. Synopsis/spoilers below.

In this film it is Renfield who goes to Transylvania, instead of Harker, of whom we know only that he's Mina's fiancé. It is evident that Renfield '23 uses this version of the story as it's origin, rather than the original novel. This story gives a lot more depth to Renfield's character than the novel does. In the novel Renfield is just a random lunatic in Seward's asylum. Here he goes insane/becomes obsessed with eating bugs after his adventures in Transylvania. He arrives in London with the count, and is subsequently placed in the asylum. In this film we see Drac chocking Renfield and pushing him down the stairs after it becomes apparent that Renfield unwittingly brought Van Helsing and Harker to Drac's hideout. Could he still be alive? We never see his body. Perhaps, after Van Helsing and Harker were satisfied with their staking Dracula through the chest with a piece of his own coffin, Renfield came back to his senses and nursed Dracula back to health?

Anyway, Renfield gets quite a bit of screen time in this film and I recommend. I was able to watch it for free on Vimeo :)

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I can't believe OG Renfield is a Gdilf

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can you come collect your freak of a man please. He’s doing things

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My entry for DracField Week Day 1 :D

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8 July - Meet Seward, Renfield, and a little bird

these are part of an animatic summarising Dracula, which you can watch here (new readers beware; it has spoilers for the entire book!)

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i don’t think i’m gonna draw the dracs meeting anytime soon so here’s just the goobers

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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious!

BELA LUGOSI as COUNT DRACULA in DRACULA (1931) dir. Tod Browning

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[Image ID: A series of texts sent a day apart. The first reads "Someone PLEASE get my boy Renfield a kitten". The second reads "Okay never mind". /end ID]

some if my friends are reading dracula for the first time via dracula daily and their reactions are priceless

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erm

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re: dracula is so good that I’ve just started reading the novel normally

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The Renfield screenshot that means EVERYTHING to me.

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If you watched renfield (2023) in theatres or on streaming and enjoyed it, I cannot recommend enough getting a dvd copy, to own or from your library if you can

There are so many special features, including a lot of deleted scenes and alternate takes (personal highlight from deleted scenes being the dance number, personal highlight from alternate takes being someone referring to renfield as a “reanimated Buster Keaton”), as well as a lotttt of behind the scenes segments, usually about the practical effects that went into the film and it really enhanced my enjoyment of the movie

It also really makes it evident how much respect there is for Dracula’s cinematic history there was during this film, esp of course the 1931 version. Examples that come to mind are Nicholas Hoult talking about trying to emulate Dwight Frye’s Renfield laugh or honestly anything Nic Cage said — it was a passion project for him and you can really tell

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Seward: Too many spiders! You need to get rid of all of them!

Renfield: 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

Seward: Er well I guess you can keep a few…

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renfield tag on the verge of becoming unusable for us vintage book bugman enjoyers

[horrorvillaintourney]

DRACULA SMACKDOWN FINALS: Dracula (1931 Film) vs. Bunnicula (Bunnicula)

PROPAGANDA FOR BUNNICULA:

“Tbh I hated this book as a child but the themes of invasion by a stranger/foreigner are present here as well as in the og Dracula. Also I think it would be funny to see a rabbit in the poll”

PROPAGANDA FOR DRACULA:

“The most beautiful girl I've ever seen the absolute OG of all Draculas. The man was literally buried in his Dracula cape if Bela Lugosi doesn't win Baby of the Year I'm going to kill myself on live tv”

“He’s the original movie one lol, I sure hope he counts. He’s also *the classic*. If you think Dracula, you think of this overdramatic mf. It’s been a min since I’ve seen it, but he just is so silly :) manipulating Renfield :) making him eat bugs :) mudering an entire ship of people :) king stuff :) [...] I don’t like how he killed Lucy and attacked Mina tbh, but he really did that, and I can’t help but forgive him (Jkjk but he’s just that iconic tho)”