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Renfield. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Nicholas Hoult, Nicolas Cage, Awkwafina, Ben Schwartz, Shorreh Aghdasloo, Brandon Scott Jones, Adrian Martinez, Camille Chen, Bess Rous, Jenna Kanell, Danya LaBelle, Rhonda Johnson, Christopher Matthew Cook, Michael P. Sullivan, Rosha Washington, James Moses Black, T.C. Matherne, Caroline Williams, Marcus Lewis, Derek Russo, Marvin Ross, Gabriel Rodriguez, Dave Davis, Keith Brooks, Joshua Mikel, Chloe Adona, Stephen Louis Grush, Christopher Winchester, John Cihangir, Krystal Tomlin, Camden McKinnon, William Ragsdale, Miles Doleac.

There’s More At Stake Now That Sir Christopher Has Died.

On the day that Christopher Lee died,

the world of Nightmares seemed less important

and as I struggled in my usual, haphazard way to fall asleep

I started counting teeth, the times I had seen

The Hammer House of Horror films helping

in this regard.

 

My father, upright, upstanding, noble of heart,

hated me watching Grange Hill, the non realism, or perhaps

the frightening truth of 1970s education in the heart

of the country at stake, enough to know

that it was a not a television programme for a boy