Vampire in Brooklyn
1995 Directed by Wes Craven
Synopsis
A comic tale of horror and seduction.
Maximillian, the lone survivor of a race of vampires, comes to Brooklyn in search of a way to live past the next full moon. His ticket to survival is Rita, a NYPD detective who doesn't know she's half vampire -- and Maximillian will do whatever's necessary to put her under his spell.
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1988-present day is a weird time in Earth's history when Eddie Murphy could be completely upstaged by Kadeem Hardison.
This movie's plot is completely tired and boring, but it's a take on/parody of Dracula, so I guess it has to be. Eddie Murphy is serviceable as Max, the vampire, and he's kind of funny as the preacher and he's bewildering as the Italian mobster. John Witherspoon basically reprises his role as the dad from "Friday" here for some reason. The cops are boring, as cops always are as protagonists of horror movies.
The humor is really hit and miss here. Most of it's miss, but everyone so often something will give a chuckle. The horror elements are lame and there's almost no gore, so I really don't know who this movie is for. It's both a half assed comedy and a half assed scary movie.
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I think I may have seen this in theaters back in it's day so I'm gonna count this one as a "rewatch". My older sisters says she's remembers me crying in the theater because I was scared. I imagine I was devastated that we ended up seeing this piece of fecal matter instead of something, you know...good.
But in actuality I was probably terrified like who am I kidding.
I can't help but feel like Eddie was really trying to branch out with this, broaden his acting horizons and despite what I feel about the film itself I actually enjoyed him as a vampire. This movie is a total cheese fest, but it's mostly due to the characters and acting…
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1988-present day is a weird time in Earth's history when Eddie Murphy could be completely upstaged by Kadeem Hardison.
This movie's plot is completely tired and boring, but it's a take on/parody of Dracula, so I guess it has to be. Eddie Murphy is serviceable as Max, the vampire, and he's kind of funny as the preacher and he's bewildering as the Italian mobster. John Witherspoon basically reprises his role as the dad from "Friday" here for some reason. The cops are boring, as cops always are as protagonists of horror movies.
The humor is really hit and miss here. Most of it's miss, but everyone so often something will give a chuckle. The horror elements are lame and there's almost no gore, so I really don't know who this movie is for. It's both a half assed comedy and a half assed scary movie.
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It seems like biggest flaw in this film is that it tried to be funny and that didn't seem to work in the film. It had an interesting premise to it but then the serious parts of it seems to over the top. Eddie was good in it but I think that he could have played it serious and still gotten away with it and made it a good movie because structurally it works until thr last act which then it seems to fall apart rather badly and sets it up for a sequel that will never come.
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This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.
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I didnt really like this at first. It works alot better wth extra viewings. One night my cousin came over, and my sister was there, we watched this and we just laughed and laughed. Now that I think of it she may have spiked our koolaid or something, but since then I have appreciated this one. There are very few good black vampire films, its not perfect but like with every Wes Craven film there are some really decent scenes.
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Ridiculous plot, characters, and dialogue. Poorly written and directed, and rife with awful puns. It was an enjoyable piece of shit.