Vampire in Brooklyn is a 1995 horror comedy 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 older brother Charles Q. Murphy. In addition to playing the main character, Murphy also plays an alcoholic preacher and a foul-mouthed Italian gangster. Vampire in Brooklyn was the final film produced under Eddie Murphy's exclusive contract with Paramount Pictures, that began with 48 Hrs. and included the Beverly Hills Cop... franchise. An abandoned ship crashes into a dockyard in Brooklyn, New York, and the ship inspector, Silas Green, inspects it, finding it full of corpses. Elsewhere, Julius Jones, Silas' nephew, has a run-in with some Italian mobsters. Just as the two goons are about to kill Julius, Maximillian, a suave, mysterious vampire , intervenes and kills them.
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| Release date: | October 27, 1995 |
| Directed by: | Wes Craven |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 100 Minutes |
| Producer: | Eddie Murphy, Marianne Maddalena, Stuart M. Besser |
| Editor: | Patrick Lussier |
| Music by: | J. Peter Robinson |
| Cinematography: | Mark Irwin |
| Screenplay by: | Eddie Murphy, Vernon Lynch, Charlie Murphy |
| Estimated budget: | $14,000,000 |
| Genre: | Comedy |