“Renfield” (** out of four) was a scattershot horror comedy about the title character Renfield (Nicholas Hoult) who is the henchman for Count Dracula (Nicolas Cage) and his inmate at an asylum for decades but yearns for a life away from him and his overwhelming and life-affirming demands which put the 2 of them at a crossroads which leads to a violent showdown to the death. Cage is amusing in a role that is a companion piece to his earlier work in 1989’s “Vampire Kiss” but otherwise this is a hit-and-miss affair whose horror and comedy elements don’t really congeal or come together. Film uses footage from 1931’s “Dracula” in some flashback scenes.