- Studio: Paramount Home Video
- Release Date: Oct 27, 1995
- Starring: Angela Bassett, Eddie Murphy
- Summary: Maximillian meets a beautiful lady copand begins to woe her;but, his hynotic seduction takes a macabre turn when he tries to make her his mate for eternity.
- Director: Wes Craven
- Genre(s): Horror, Comedy, Romance
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 0 out of 17
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Mixed: 9 out of 17
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Negative: 8 out of 17
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Vampire is hardly a consequential film, nor does it suggest hitherto buried reserves of Murphy's talent. But it's a diverting mixture of horror, romance and comedy.
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50Vampire in Brooklyn is neither funny nor frightening and comes up a tedious middle-road hybrid from veteran scaremeister Wes Craven, who directed.
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50Vampire in Brooklyn, a purported "comic tale of horror and seduction" that is neither funny nor frightening, just unpleasant.
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38Not even scaremeister director Wes Craven can awaken this story. Murphy's pale efforts are enough to make one fondly recall Blacula. Now that was one sucker who knew how to make a film that didn't. [27 Oct 1995, p.4D]
Score distribution:
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Positive: 3 out of 3
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Mixed: 0 out of 3
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Negative: 0 out of 3
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Adriannez9This movie was hilarious. Aside from all the swearing it was good.
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