#zombie's screencap analysis

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Some slippers for @ninjathrowingstork​ and MORE sceencap observations

I’m really sorry, I coulda sworn there was a front shot of ‘em so you can see the design clearer. Hope these help, anyway!

And now some more observations

First, the camera moves so fucking fast and even at 0.1x speed it’s hard to see much of Renfield’s room. He’s got two pillows on a twin bed, this... chest? serving as a bedside table, an old-timey washbasin, a MESS of candle wax... Oh here’s the bug box. I never noticed before but it has a little claspy to keep it shut

Piles of books but an empty and maybe broken? china hutch in the back, can’t for the life of me ID that ceramic doodad- waay too big to be a shaving cream dealie... He’s also got MORE candlewax mess, and just fucking shoved an electric lamp on top of the candlestick? Dude? You okay? I mean I know he very much wasn’t in this scene but still.

And here’s something I never caught before. Look at his lower eyelid in this shot and in the one below.

See that? HIS EYES FUCKING GLOW WHEN HE’S GOT HIS POWER ACTIVE! I never noticed that before?! And the colour comes from inside and spreads out. Like, from the outside of the pupil. Neat!

As I’m going through at 0.1x speed, I’m also noticing, like. The place they’re in is in a state of disrepair. There are bodies, not just of the hunters, scattered around. This is not their first home. I wiiiiish we had a timeline of when they settled in New Orleans, because judging by the amount of bodies and the buckets and the blood throne, they’d been in that hospital a fucking while, so, like, Renfield had to scoop up burnt steak Dracula and coffin him and I guess put shit in storage until he bought the hospital? One of my magazines, Fangoria I think, had the director mention the blood throne being Renfield’s attempt to revive Drac intravenously, so... Did Renfield stow their belongings and his boss, buy the hospital, and then construct the throne and collect bodies before he even moved Drac in? What y’all think?

... Y’all think “shut up, Zombie.” I know. I get it. Anyway.

Drac’s eyes when enforcing his thrall are pale greeny blue,

and black with red around the pupils when he angy. Come to think of it, I wonder if the red in his eyes is the same deal as the gold in Renfield’s, in that it glows? Fuck that woulda been cool to see.

I’ve been laying here capping and typing for over an hour I’m off to get a snack k byyyyyyye

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also I did my best to go back and tag my screencaps so if you want in-depth shots of Renfield’s suit or his apartment please consider the tag “zombie’s screencap analysis.” orz

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OKay trying this again no technology is working for me today

I mostly want to point out  what is probably very common knowledge already that the “Nicholas Hoult getting WAPpy with it” video that @nicoleanell​ gif’d was shot from a security camera that is hacked into by the Lobos

Like, again, really probably common knowledge by now, but the idea that they caught him dancing is totally legit and godspeed to any editors or writers who want to make “The Lobos watch Renfield dance on security cam footage” a thing <3

But the OTHER thing I wanted to post about was Rob’s apartment, AGAIN! I fucking love this tiny space so much! It looks like someone actually lives there, which is such- I’ve been watching all of the X-Files series in order with my mom over the past several months, and we both have been marvelling at how people’s living spaces look LIVED IN. The homes of Mulder and Scully and the homes of witnesses or whatever, they all look like someone actually considered what a person in that area might decorate with. Love it when I can’t tell a set is a set. I want to eat these /affectionate

Right now I can’t believe I glazed over this shot so many times! Look! Little clear acrylic bar stools with white seats! I told y’all he had bar stools- and on the right hand side of this cap you can see his record player pretty well. There’s a tiny white flower pot on top of one of the speakers, which I wouldn’t recommend, but I say that with Ghost funkos on my speakers so what the hell do I know

Just appreciating Robs tiny “living room” and all the g-ddamn lights and plants

His face makes me so sad but this is a good shot because you can see the rest of the record player space, he does have two speakers as well as a nice little assortment of vinyls though you probably shouldn’t let them lean like that. I KNOW you can afford a proper record box, my dude

When Rob goes to fetch his book I finally realised what’s on the left side nightstand besides another stack of books- the photo of hi wife and daughter. At least I’m like 90% sure that’s what that is.

This one was such a tricky shot to nab even going at 0.1% speed but! On the leftmost side you can see the mirror Rob brushes his hair in front of in the Lizzo montage! Same frame! And it’s next to an Ikea FRAK and above a sink, so the door on which the black robe* hangs most certainly leads to a bathroom, although it is missing a sink. Because the sink is right there. Is this a thing? I’ve never ever been in a space where the bathroom sink isn’t in the actual bath room /never travels /dumb american scared of the ocean and flying

OH ANOTHER THING IN THIS PARTICULAR SCENE just ignore Dracula there and look at the right side, on top of the speaker- it’s a wee ceramic mushroom planter or vase with a flower in it :3c It’s so stinkin’ cute guys Rob is too much

Anyway yeah I’m feeling really good about my mental map of Rob’s apartment (that does not make sense when compared to exterior shots but that’s okay he deserves a non-Euclidian living space) and will draw the floorplan soon and hmu if you want specific bits and bobs

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So Dracula’s coffin was just. There. In the throne room. He didn’t have a separate space for it. And honestly why would he it’s HIS hospital ig. I’ve been scouring my disc and can’t find any notion of where Renfield slept. I did spot an old coffee pot, and the sewing machine had red thread loaded on it, so, y’know, Renfield was THERE, but at the edges. I fucking love this set design work so much you guys.

The thread!

Coffin on the left. Also, those bodies are not the three ska guys and Apache Joe, meaning at some point between blood-drunk “world domination!” Dracula and “knock out Teddy Lobo and visit Renfield’s apartment” Dracula, either he was strong enough to go hunting on his own, OR Renfield dropped off a few more bodies as he was getting his apartment set up??

Coffin again, and clearer that those aren’t the ska guys on the floor. That’s a firefighter. Also on the right, Dracula’s cape on a mannequin! I guess Renfield’s sewing station is on that side of the room, but, again, there’s no indication of a “bed” (I was figuring, like, old hospital gurney, at least)

In one of the extended scenes, one of the Lobos points out the cape and calls it “fly as hell,” which, yes, it is. In this cap I also circled the ... wheely thingy? I don’t know the names of sewing machine parts! But, the sewing machine is behind the cape, there?

Coffin on the left, and, oh, the sewing machine is visible between Teddy and Dracula in the background... I’m starting to confuse myself now.

Anyway, here’s the old coffee pot I spotted, and one little batty air freshener :3

I would kill for a concept art book of this movie with sketches of the layouts and and design pages. Literally. Let me kill for you, Renfield concept book.

EDIT: Oh wow the sewing area and the cape (which has got the be the so-red-it’s-black cape Drac has when he meets Bella-Francesca) are visible when Renfield is bring the ska guys in.

Cape is on the left edge of the shot, and the sewing table is beside it. Every frame a fucking painting !!!!!!

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Have some Behind the Scenes screencaps! (Lots of blood, but it’s fake movie blood) (but there’s one where a guy’s face skin is off and it’s fake but still. Be careful)

Damn it stop looking so pretty with blood on you, Hoult!

There was a very slightly extended bit where after ripping the cop’s face off, Renfield panicked and tried to put it back on.

And here’s Hoult being silly with the arms

And I honestly thought this bit was CG! That’s his realass tongue!

Um, yeah. Anyway. Crispy Dracula in HD!

And the Drac called “Picasso” due to his jaw and ears being out of alignment. Just fucking love this, Nic Cage sat in a makeup chair for 4+hours for this.

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Renfield’s Suit, part 3

 Thanks for sticking with me, bug bros!

Renfield thanks you too! Er, probably.

The camera focuses on Renfield fidgeting with a visibly mended left knee (I still think he was trying to fix it while he was talking), but I’d like to direct your attention to his left wrist and to the fraying. How does that even happen.

The Lizzo montage gives us Renfield in natural light. I can’t really think of anything to say here. Except that, again, I adore how he moved into SUNRISE Tower. Did he pick it because it was the first advert he saw or because “oh sunrise, this will be helpful to keep Dracula away”?

As he cleans you can see his shirt’s tucked in again, meaning he must have been unable to salvage the one with guts and duct tape residue on it. So, canonically, Renfield has at least two shirts. Good for him! He holds that wastepaper basket so daintily lol. ... I also got this shot because that fucking mystery hip strap, man. Here you can see it shiny... clasp?? See, I have been very sure that the hip strap was an old-timey wallet chain (he DOES have a wallet, and he gets in to fights, so a wallet chain feels necessary right), buuuut. Is that shiny thing a remnant of a suspender clasp? I mean, the width of the strap compared to the width of his suspenders (shot posted in Part 1) are totally different, so probably not. But *gestures vaguely* the fuck is that shiny thing?

The freeing of the bugs in front of the door to his non-Euclidean apartment (THAT DOOR ON THE LEFT JUST PAST THE WINDOW HAS NO CORRESPONDING AREA INSIDE HIS APARTMENT) is the fullest shot we get of Renfield in full natural light, and just. Bro. Is that shadows or is the left pocket stained at the bottom which would mean he’s spilled his chloroform at least once. I guess I should be all like “considering it’s at least 90 years old that suit is fine: but something about the natural light just makes it look like something you’d find in a rummage sale and think to yourself “oh, this came off a cadaver, I’m handling crime evidence right now.”

Hey look, he got the Lobo blood out! And it looks like his right armpit has some mending. Oooh, look, are those pinstripes? Is this indeed the same suit he wore when he first met Dracula? 

Pictured: Me rambling to you about this fucking costume and you, understandably, being afraid about it.

Anyway! Thanks so much for putting up with all this! Have a smiley Renfield.

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Renfield’s Suit, part 2

Okay I think my picture limit changes depending on the size of these shots. I took some of these in 16:9 and some in 16:10 for reasons I have now forgotten. A THIRD DANG POST will be necessary.

When we last left the screencaps, Renfield was about to kidnap some cheerleaders.

He keeps his hankie in his right pocket, and a small bottle of Chloroform (NOT Ether, fellow fic writers) in his left. See that weird little short strap with a buckle-looking thing? It’ll come up again soon.

As he gets the bottle out of his left pocket, there’s this weird long strap thing that appears to be attached to the, um, opening? of his suit jacket? Again, I don’t know clothing terms! But this strappy bit, it’s not attached to the back of his jacket, where it would connect with that aforementioned buckle bit to make, I don’t know, a cinch??? The only way this strap can connect with the buckle bit is to go across the torso, which sounds like a shitty way to zip up your shit imo. Also, despite hunting, his vest is buttoned up, and here you can also see only part of his shirt’s tucked in. Did he not have the time or materials to fix his shirt after Dracula gutted him and healed him? Did he pass out for a while and woke up like ‘ah shit I gotta go kidnap people again’? I probably woulda passed out for a while.

He has an inner pocket on the left side and he stores his bug box in there.

Be small, be tiny, no one can see you... /whump? No but really I mainly took this one for the watch. Having a hell of a time trying to ID his watch. Turns out you can’t ID watches solely by fuzzy images of wrist straps. Who knew?

Probably the best shot I can get that shows the lining of the suit jacket. I got nothin’ funny to say here.

After Mulates and Dracula’s drunk ramblings Renfield runs to the gym and he’s still got Lobo blood on him! The gym lighting is really good for showing how fucked up he is :3c

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Renfield’s Suit, part 1

*cracks knuckles* *cracks wrists* *cracks corn* Alright, I learned how to play mt BluRay at 0.1x speed, so I took... about 100 screencaps from the first half hour or so of the movie for suit references. You’re WELCOME @ninjathrowingstork​ and everyone else who wanted this!!! heart emoji

So first I think it’s important to start with this Behind the Scenes shot of Proper Normal Lawyer Guy Renfield. I don’t know shit about suits. Does this look like the tattered thing he was wearing in the movie? Is it the same, um, lapels?

This is such a quick shot in the flashback but it’s important because 1) suspenders and B) it confirms! Renfield spent time in the asylum after being found in the cargo hold of the Vesta (it was the Vesta, right? Or was he on the Demeter as well? In the 1931 movie it was the Vesta...). This particular shot is from when Van Helsing and Seward heard Renfield laughing because he was eavesdropping on them :3

Anyway. Hoo boy, Current Year Renfield. I took this shot to highlight the fraying on his left shoulder as well as the visible mend at the, I dunno, sleeve seam? His sleeve (maybe his arm too?) was ripped off at some point and he had to stitch it back on- and we know he mended shit himself because 1) the costume designer told us and 2) sewing supplies box. (thanks eternally to @dreamcast0 for pointing out it was a sewing box and not a weird printer as I had thought!)

The back of his suit is gross, man. Like, permanently sweat stained. Surprisingly no mending that I could see- guess any attacks that damaged his suit came from the front (psspsspss whump writers)

As has been previously pointed out, I think, Renfield unbuttons his vest when hunting. Makes sense, I suppose, gives a little more freedom of movement. Also check out that stain on the left side of his chest. Hmm. Stabbed in the heart? I never got a clearer shot so I can’t confirm if that’s from an injury and he just didn’t treat the stain in time and it set in, or his fountain pen leaked (psspss)

TFW Apache Joe is not, in fact, all out of knives. Again, left sleeve, and the lapel thingies of his suit are fraying.

As Renfield was panicking about his intestines trying to become OUTtestines (I’m very funny), I realised how... badly his suit fits now. Like, it all just kinda hangs on him instead of being worn by him, you know? Poor guy was slender already, and a century of working for Dracula made him gaunt.