10 Horror Movies That Switch Villains

Chris McKay's Renfield takes a whole different angle on the classic Dracula lackey. Positioning the the long-suffering servant (played here by Nicholas Hoult) squarely in the 21st century - and in therapy - the film finds him at a critical juncture in his life, reckoning with his enthrallment to his overbearing and eccentric master (Nicolas Cage in all his camp, flamboyant glory).

Although Cage's Dracula was all over the posters and trailers and promotional material, menacing a reluctant Renfield and his new friend, Awkwafina's NOPD traffic officer Rebecca, the prince of darkness ends up taking on the role of something more like the jilted lover. The real villains of the piece are Ben Schwartz's junior gangster Tedward Lobo and his mother, mafia crime boss Bellafrancesca (Shohreh Aghdashloo).

As the film's big bads, the pair are more slapstick than sinister, but they allow Dracula the space to stalk the shadows, flourishing in hilarious little tableaus before swooping in at the last minute to both ruin and save the day.