USA, 1995
100m
35mm film, colour (by DeLuxe) 1.85:1
Dolby Digital, English
An American comedy horror film directed by Wes Craven.
Plot Summary
The vampire Maximillian, the last of his kind, travels from his home on a Caribbean island in search of a mate, arriving eventually in Brooklyn. When he learns that the woman he was looking for has died, he sets his sights on her daughter, part-vampire thanks to an undead father.
Credits
Crew
Directed by: Wes Craven
© MCMXCV [1995] by Paramount Picture Corporation
Paramount Pictures presents an Eddie Murphy production. A Wes Craven film
Executive Producers: Marianne Maddalena, Stuart M. Besser
Produced by: Eddie Murphy, Mark Lipsky
Co-producers: Ray Murphy Jr, Dixie J. Capp
Associate Producer: Jeffrey Fenner
Screenplay by: Charles Murphy, Michael Lucker, Chris Parker
Story: Eddie Murphy, Vernon Lynch, Charles Murphy
Director of Photography: Mark Irwin
Edited by: Patrick Lussier
Music by: J. Peter Robinson
Sound Mixer: Jim Stuebe
Costume Designer: Ha Nguyen
Make-Up Department Supervisor: Bernadine M. Anderson
Hair Department Supervisor: Bill Howard
Special Make-Up Effects: Kurtzman, Nicotero, Berger EFX Group
Special Mechanical Effects by: Image Engineering
Special Visual Effects Animation and Compositing by: Available Light Ltd.
Special Visual Effects: Fantasy II Film Effects, Inc.
Digital Animation by: Hammerhead Productions Inc.
Art Director: Gary Diamond, Cynthia Charette
Casting by: Eileen Mack Knight
Cast
Eddie Murphy (Maximillian)
Angela Bassett (Rita)
Allen Payne (Justice)
Kadeem Hardison (Julius)
John Witherspoon (Silas)
Zakes Mokae (Dr Zeko)
Joanna Cassidy (Dewey)
Simbi Khali (Nikki)
Messiri Freeman (Eva)
Kelly Cinnante (officer)
Nick Corri (Anthony)
W. Earl Brown (Thrasher)
Ayo Adeyemi (bartender)
Eddie Murphy (Preacher Pauley)
Troy Curvey Jr (choir leader)
Vickilyn Reynolds (Mrs Brown)
William Blount (Deacon Brown)
Eddie Murphy (Guido)
Joe Costanza (Bear)
John La Motta (Lizzy)
Alternative Titles
Brooklyn vampiri – Turkey
Brooklynin Vampyyri – Finland (video)
Enas vrykolakas sto Brooklyn – Greece (DVD)
Un vampire à Brooklyn – France
Um Vampiro no Brooklyn – Brazil
Un vampiro suelto en Brooklyn – Argentina, Spain, Venezuela
En Vampyr i Brooklyn – Sweden (video)
En vampyr i Brooklyn – Finland (Swedish)
O vrykolakas tou Brooklyn – Greece
Upír v Brooklyne – Slovakia
Upír v Brooklynu – Czech Republic
Vámpír Brooklynban – Hungary
Vampire à Brooklyn – Canada (French)
Vampiro a Brooklyn – Italy
Vampiro em Brooklyn – Portugal
Vampiro en Brooklyn – Mexico
Vampirul din Brooklyn – Romania
Wampir w Brooklynie – Poland
Wes Craven’s Vampire In Brooklyn(complete title) – USA
Ο βρικόλακας του Μπρούκλιν – Greece
Bампир в Бруклине – Russia
Вампир в Бруклин – Bulgaria
Вампир у Бруклину – Serbia
Вампір з Брукліна – Ukraine
ヴァンパイア・イン・ブルックリン – Japan
我吸我吸我吸吸吸 – Taiwan
Links
Extracts included in
Eddie Murphy, le roi noir d’Hollywood (2023)
Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror (2019)
Superstition (1995)
References
Periodicals
- Cinefantastique vol.27 no.2 (November 1995) p.12-13 – illustrated article (A Vampire in Brooklyn by Dan Persons)
- Empire no.84 (June 1996) p.36 – illustrated review (New films by Bob Mccabe)
- Fangoria no.148 (November 1995) p.34-39 – illustrated interview with Wes Craven (Vampire in Brooklyn is no laughing matter by Marc Shapiro)
- Fangoria no.149 (January 1996) p.20-25 – illustrated article (Brothers in blood by Marc Shapiro)
- Premiere vol.9 no.5 (January 1996) p.66-71,115 – illustrated article (After the Fall by Holly Millea)
- Screen International no.1042 (26 January 1996) p.39 – illustrated credits, synopsis (United International Pictures: 1996 Preview)
- Screen International no.982 (4 November 1994) p.10 – note (Production line)
- Sight and Sound vol.6 no.6 (June 1996) p.55 – credits, synopsis, review (Reviews by Kim Newman)
- The Hollywood Reporter vol.334 no.46 (22 November 1994) p.15 – credits
- Variety 28 March 1994 p.24 – credits
- Variety 30 October 1995 p.70 – credits, review (by Brian Lowry)
