Vampire in Brooklyn Movie Review 1995

Murphy switches gears to play a Carribean vampire traveling to New York in search of his vampiric lady love--who turns out to be half-vamp-half-cop Bassett. As in "Coming to America," Murphy plays multiple characters, but that's three times the disappointment. Stale humor and cheap horror effects do little to break the zombie curse plaguing Murphy's career. Three days into filming, a stunt double for Bassett was killed after doing a routine jump on the set, providing a bad omen Murphy should have heeded.

Distribution

Paramount Home Video, 5555 Melrose Ave., 5555 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90038, Phone: (323)956-5000, URL: http://www.paramount.com, Remarks: Does not handle retail queries from consumers; contact your local video distributor.

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 103 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Horror Comedy, Vampires, Metamorphosis, Special FX Extravaganzas: Make-Up, Cops, Pure Ego Vehicles, New York, New York

Screenplay

Charles Murphy, Christopher Parker, Michael Lucker

Cast

Eddie Murphy, Angela Bassett, Kadeem Hardison, Allen Payne, Zakes Mokae, John Witherspoon

Cinematography

Mark Irwin

Director

Wes Craven

Music

J. Peter Robinson

Producer

Mark Lipsky, Eddie Murphy, Marianne Maddalena, Stuart Besser, Paramount Pictures