Wes Craven: Every Movie Ranked Worst To Best
19. Vampire In Brooklyn
Considering the state of Eddie Murphy's career at this point in the 90s, Vampire in Brooklyn was no deviation from the norm: this is no masterpiece. Sorry Norbit.
Uneven in tone and rejecting all common vampire lore, the film instead favours one exotic survivor of the vampire race that has escaped from the Bermuda Triangle in search of a mate in, you guessed it, Brooklyn. He's a vampire in Brooklyn. Just in case there was any uncertainty about the title.
Murphy plays his evil vampire overlord very straight, which does strangely work, and Angela Bassett is as fantastic as ever even with subpar source material. And really, a largely black cast for a vampire movie is a fantastically interesting concept; but with comedy creeping in where there should be none, budget cuts, and some misguided cliches, Vampire in Brooklyn is one of Craven's worst offenders for messy filmmaking and wasted potential.