10 Horror Movie Characters That Single-Handedly Ruined Recent Movies

10. Rebecca - Renfield

Awkwafina is certainly a talented and funny actress, but recent horror-comedy Renfield absolutely didn't need her surly traffic cop character, Rebecca, at all.

Renfield was a baffling movie of two halves, dividing itself between the thoroughly entertaining toxic workplace satire of Renfield (Nicholas Hoult) and Dracula's (Nicolas Cage) relationship, and a narcotisingly generic crime thriller in which Rebecca takes on mobster Tedward Lobo (Ben Schwartz).

There are far too many moments in the movie where the focus shifts explicitly to Rebecca and her less-than subplot, in turn stealing precious screen time away from Renfield and Dracula.

Nobody compelled to see a film called Renfield had any desire to watch this awkwardly shoehorned cops-and-criminals plot, which feels so out of place as to suggest that the script might be two cast-off screenplays combined into one ill-fitting whole.

Again, Awkwafina isn't the problem here, but her character's existence certainly is, serving as pointless dead weight in a movie which needed to train its attention elsewhere in order to truly succeed. Instead, Renfield turned out to be a fleetingly amusing offering that fell far short of its obvious potential.