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Vampire in Brooklyn is a 1995 American vampire comedy horror film directed by Wes Craven. It stars Eddie Murphy, who produced and wrote with his brothers Vernon Lynch and Charles Q. Murphy. The film co-stars Angela Bassett, Allen Payne, Kadeem Hardison, John Witherspoon, Zakes Mokae, and Joanna Cassidy.
Vampire in Brooklyn: Directed by Wes Craven. With Eddie Murphy, Angela Bassett, Allen Payne, Kadeem Hardison. A Caribbean vampire seduces a Brooklyn police officer who has no idea that she is half-vampire.
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- Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
- Wes Craven
- 1995-10-27
Parents need to know that Vampire in Brooklyn is a horror comedy starring Eddie Murphy, who also co-wrote and produced the movie, which is directed by horror veteran Wes Craven (A Nightmare on Elm Street). The film is a typical vampire story of a vampire (Murphy) coming into town and feeding on….
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Vampire in Brooklyn is a 1995 American comedy horror film directed by Wes Craven. Eddie Murphy, who also produced and stars in the film, wrote the film's script, alongside Vernon Lynch and Murphy's older brother Charles Q. Murphy. Vampire in Brooklyn co-stars Angela Bassett, Allen Payne, Kadeem Hardison, John Witherspoon, Zakes Mokae, and Joanna Ca...
An abandoned ship crashes into a dockyard in Brooklyn, New York, and the ship inspector, Silas Green, finds it full of corpses. A wolf jumps out and almost attacks Silas. He then notices the wolf's shadow on the wall of a building and is shocked to see turn into a human with a long overcoat walking away.
Elsewhere, Julius Jones, Silas's nephew, breaks up with his girlfriend, has a run-in with some Italian mobsters, who have come to claim the money he owes due to his gambling debts. Just as the two goons are about to kill Julius, Maximillian, a vampire who arrived on the ship, intervenes and kills them by ripping ones heart out and tearing another to pieces.
Maximillian infects Julius with his vampiric blood, thereby turning Julius into a decaying ghoul, rather than kill him to avoid witnesses, and explains that he has come to Brooklyn in search of the Dhampir daughter of a vampire from his native Caribbean island in order to live beyond the night of the next full moon.
This Dhampir turns out to be NYPD Detective Rita Veder, still dealing with the death of her mentally ill mother (a paranormal researcher) some months before. As she and her partner, Detective Justice, investigate the murders on the ship, Rita begins having visions about a woman who looks like her, and starts asking questions about her mother's past. Rita is completely unaware of her vampire heritage, and believes she is losing her mind like her mother.
Maximillian initiates a series of sinister methods to pull Rita into his thrall, including seducing and murdering her roommate Nikki, as well as disguising himself as her preacher and a lowlife crook named Guido, whom he kills to take his identity. Max, in these disguises, misleads Rita into thinking Justice slept with Nikki, making her jealous and angry with him.
After saving Rita from being run down by a taxicab, Maximillian takes her to dinner. Rita is taken with Maximillian's suave charm, and while dancing with her, he bites her.
•Eddie Murphy as Maximillian / Preacher Pauly / Guido
•Angela Bassett as Detective Rita Veder
•Allen Payne as Detective Justice
•Kadeem Hardison as Julius Jones
•John Witherspoon as Silas Green
•Zakes Mokae as Dr. Zeko
•According to Eddie Murphy's brother, Charlie Murphy, the movie was originally going to be a straight horror film with no laughs but Wes Craven brought a different focus to it. He also said: "Maximilian wasn't going to have any redeeming qualities. But Wes taught us that we must get the audience to care about our characters. And even if they didn't know any vampires personally, they would at least have to identify with the type of person he was.
•African-American stunt performer Sonja Davis was fatally injured performing a 42-foot (13 m) backward fall.
A Caribbean vampire seduces a Brooklyn police officer who has no idea that she is half-vampire. Maximillian is the only survivor from a race of vampires on a Caribbean Island, and, as a vampire, he must find a mate to keep the line from ending.
Vampire in Brooklyn. NEW. In the wake of her mother's death in a mental institution, detective Rita Veder (Angela Bassett) is assigned to a baffling serial murder case. After examining the...
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Oct 27, 1995 · Vampire In Brooklyn. Comedy. 103 minutes ‧ R ‧ 1995. Roger Ebert. October 27, 1995. 4 min read. At one point early in “Vampire in Brooklyn,” the vampire’s victim says, “Don’t be pulling that old Blacula – – – – on me.”. If only he had been!
