Robert Montague Renfield

Blood sloshes and Nicolas Cage feasts in ‘Renfield’

"Renfield" is not Nicolas Cage's first blush with a vampire.

In 1988's "Vampire's Kiss," he played a New York literary agent who thought he was an immortal bloodsucker. His bug-eyed performance was essentially the birth of the over-the-top, kabuki-inflected mythology of Cage. Years later, it would launch a thousand memes, a kind of digital version of becoming undead.