Nicolas Cage is Dracula.

That's pretty much reason enough to go and see Renfield, a horror-comedy twist on the Bram Stoker legend that returns Cage to blood-sucking mode for the first time since 1988's Vampire's Kiss (and in that one, he only thought he was a vampire).

Spouting sarcastic comments, sipping blood from a martini glass and even popping up in footage from Tod Browning's classic 1931 black-and-white Dracula, Cage's delicious uber-vampire is all we have ever dreamed of, and the only disappointment about his controlled but still slightly bonkers performance is that we just don’t see enough of it.

Instead, director Chris McKay has decided to make a movie that also focuses on Dracula's servant, Renfield (great idea, especially with Nicholas Hoult in the role) and a New Orleans traffic cop trying to jail a local crime family (not such a great idea because, well, who cares?).

The movie begins on a positive note by introducing us to Robert Montague Renfield, the poor 'familiar' who has spent many years tending to Dracula's needs. In this version, the infamous vampire is extremely difficult to kill but he does suffer extreme decay when attacked or set on fire, so Renfield has relocated them both to an abandoned hospital adorned with hanging blood bags while Drac recuperates from the latest attack on his so-called life (damn those vampire hunters).