ILLUSTRATION BY RAJ DHUNNA
There are a lot of Dracula movies. Among his many achievements, Bram Stoker’s vampire still holds the Guinness World Record for “Most Portrayed Character In Horror Films”. But in that vast, decades-long canon, there has never been a film that centres on the Count’s long-suffering familiar, Renfield. Until Renfield. “We’re doing something different,” says director Chris McKay. “It’s going far away from what you would typically think of a Dracula movie: it’s modern, and it’s through the lens of Dracula as a shitty boss.” (The premise came from The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman, who pitched it as part of the ongoing ‘Universal Monsters’ revamp.)