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03/26/09
Vampire in Brooklyn (1995)
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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
Genre: Horror/Suspense
US Box Office: $0
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... [More]
Starring: Eddie Murphy, Angela Bassett, Allen Payne, Kadeem Hardison
Director: Wes Craven
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01/26/06
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10/09/05
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06/25/05
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03/11/05
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
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05/20/03
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03/27/03
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03/07/03
Oh, Wes, what did we all do to deserve this?
02/12/03
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
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07/30/02
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
Neither as good as it might be nor as bad as you might expect.
04/12/02
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.
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