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01/26/06
Vampire in Brooklyn (1995)
11 %
Reviews Counted: 27 Fresh: 3 Rotten:24 Average Rating: 3.7/10
Consensus:
Neither scary nor very funny, this misguided effort never lives up to its premise.
Runtime: 1 hr 42 mins
Synopsis: Eddie Murphy is Maximillian, the last of a race of vampires from the Caribbean who travels to New York in search of Rita (Angela Bassett), an NYPD officer whom he considers to be the perfect woman to carry on his dying bloodline. Once he hits Gotham, Maximillian has a series of fish-out-of-water... [More]
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Starring: Eddie Murphy, Angela Bassett, Allen Payne, Kadeem Hardison, Zakes Mokae
Director: Wes Craven
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Top Critic
Never funny enough to pass muster as a comedy and never scary enough (if at all) to make it as a horror movie.
01/07/05
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05/20/03
Top Critic
Is it comedy? Is it horror? Uneven film that never lives up to its potential as either.
02/06/03
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08/14/02
Top Critic
Vampire in Brooklyn is neither funny nor frightening and comes up a tedious middle-road hybrid from veteran scaremeister Wes Craven, who directed.
06/18/02
Essentially little more than a romantic triangle with a 'good versus evil' twist, it's not a bad film, but it is also neither winningly funny enough to exploit Murphy's talents nor bitingly scary enough to exploit Craven's.
06/05/02
The horror relies on special effects so obvious that the scares are compromised.
05/14/02
The bottom line is that Vampire in Brooklyn is funny and gross, but saddled with a pedestrian storyline that denies any real magic in its premise and sinks its potential as a dark fantasy.
01/01/00
Murphy's performance is pretty good most of the way, but he needed a stronger director than horrormeister Wes Craven to keep him in check.
01/01/00
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