Vampire in Brooklyn (1995)

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" Maximillian is the only survivor from a race of vampires on a Caribbean Island, and as a vampire, he must find a mate to keep the line from ending. He knows that a child had been born to a woman who had a vampire father, and he searches for her in Brooklyn. Zakes Mokae, Jsu Garcia, Wendy Robie, and Mitch Pileggi, all starred in previous Wes Craven films, that being Shocker, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and Serpent and the Rainbow, W. Earl Brown later being a the film, Scream. Eddie Murphy, a"

A Real Low In Murphy's Career

“This is reverse racism of the worst kind, a film where all the white people are the bad guys and the black people are the good guys. How come racially-biased films like this are "politically correct" even though they reek of prejudice? All the white people are killed, too. Does make things better? Does that help race relations?

Add to that bigotry and very boring love story between Murphy and Angela Bassett and you have a film that was very disappointing. Murphy is a funny guy and someone whose films I usually enjoy....but this was ridiculous. This was a movie that didn't really know what it wanted to be: comedy, romance or horror. A good mixture would have acceptable but none of the categories were represented well here.

As other people point out, this started off stro” read more

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