Vampire in Brooklyn (also known as Wes Craven's Vampire in Brooklyn) is a 1995 American comedy horror film directed by Wes Craven, and starring Eddie Murphy and Angela Bassett. Allen Payne, Kadeem Hardison, John Witherspoon, Zakes Mokae, and Joanna Cassidy co-star. Eddie Murphy wrote the film's script, along with Vernon Lynch and Charlie Murphy. In addition to playing the main character, Murphy also plays an alcoholic preacher and a foul-mouthed ...
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Vampire in Brooklyn (also known as Wes Craven's Vampire in Brooklyn) is a 1995 American comedy horror film directed by Wes Craven, and starring Eddie Murphy and Angela Bassett. Allen Payne, Kadeem Hardison, John Witherspoon, Zakes Mokae, and Joanna Cassidy co-star. Eddie Murphy wrote the film's script, along with Vernon Lynch and Charlie Murphy. In addition to playing the main character, Murphy also plays an alcoholic preacher and a foul-mouthed Italian gangster.
The film garnered a loyal cult following for being one of Wes Craven's experiment films.
An abandoned ship crashes into a dockyard in Brooklyn, and the ship inspector, Silas Green, checks out the ship, only to find, to his horror, that the ship is full of corpses. Elsewhere, Julius, Silas's petty nephew, has a run-in with some Italian mobsters. Just as the two goons are about to do away with Julius, Maximillian, a suave but mysterious Caribbean man, shows up, reveals himself as a vampire, and kills the gangsters. Soon after,...
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