Vampire in Brooklyn

Wes Craven was no good at directing comedy, and the combination of simply capturing some of the earliest excesses of Eddie Murphy’s comedic stylings along with the super-generic vampire terror end up clashing anyway in Vampire in Brooklyn to the point where even if you find the funny stuff actually funny and the horror stuff actually scary, the two don’t gel at all together here. Horror comedy can work really well (Shaun of the Dead is a prime example), but Craven doesn’t know how to weave t...