Vampire in Brooklyn

Vampire in Brooklyn also known as Wes Cravens 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 costar. Eddie Murphy wrote the films 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 foulmouthed Italian gangster.

An abandoned ship crashes into a dockyard in Brooklyn, New York, and the ship inspector, Silas Green, finds it full of corpses. Elsewhere, Julius Jones, Silass nephew, has a runin with some Italian mobsters. Just as the two goons are about to kill Julius, Maximillian, a suave, mysterious vampire who arrived on the ship in his intricately carved coffin, intervenes and kills them. Soon after, Maximillian infects Julius with his vampiric blood, turning Julius into a decaying ghoul and claiming that it has benefits he then explains that he has come to Brooklyn in search of the Dhampir daughter of a vampire from his native Caribbean island in order to live beyond the night of the next full moon.This Dhampir turns out to be NYPD Detective Rita Veder, who is still dealing with the death of her mentally ill mother a paranormal researcher some months before. As she and her partner, Detective Justice, are in the middle of investigating the murders on the ship, Rita begins having strange visions about a woman who looks like her, and begins asking questions about her mothers past. When she tells Justice about having a strange feeling about the investigation, he is skeptical, which frustrates Rita. The visions are presumably influenced in part by her vampire heritage this is hinted at a few times throughout the first twothirds of the story. Rita is completely unaware of this heritage, and believes she is losing her mind, similar to what happened to her mother. ........

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