Bassett gives a performance that deserved a better movie, while Allen Payne isn't offered much to work with as the generic "nice guy," though he's a likable one, for sure.

| Feb 6, 2024

If your idea of a laff riot is a guy's ear falling off, then this movie might be for you. Therapy might be for you, too.

| Original Score: D | Oct 19, 2020

Bassett and Murphy might make a fine romantic comedy team if they'll leave the oversized bicuspids at home.

| Original Score: C+ | Oct 19, 2020

What a pity that these funny scenes are separated by wastelands of Serious Plot.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 19, 2020

Its one lingering image is that of Eddie Murphy trying, and failing, to rise from the dead.

| Original Score: D | Sep 7, 2011

Striking a good balance between horror and comedy (with the emphasis tilted to the former), this contemporized vampire tale flits along in entertaining fashion before making like a ghoul and falling apart at the end.

| Mar 26, 2009

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 9, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 25, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 11, 2005

Never funny enough to pass muster as a comedy and never scary enough (if at all) to make it as a horror movie.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 7, 2005

Given the talent involved, it's almost impressive how much of a misfire the film is.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 11, 2003

Craven knows how to set up a couple of good fright shots, but this odd mix of genres yields very little that's really scary and even less that's funny.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 20, 2003

Vampire in Brooklyn goes through the motions of a comic-vampire romance with little sense of how to blend its elements.

| May 20, 2003

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 27, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 7, 2003

Oh, Wes, what did we all do to deserve this?

Full Review | Original Score: 0/5 | Feb 12, 2003

Is it comedy? Is it horror? Uneven film that never lives up to its potential as either.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 6, 2003

In merging their interests, Craven and Murphy subordinated their respective talents.

| Aug 14, 2002

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 30, 2002

Vampire in Brooklyn is neither funny nor frightening and comes up a tedious middle-road hybrid from veteran scaremeister Wes Craven, who directed.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jun 18, 2002