Vampires in Brooklyn

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Movie
German title Vampires in Brooklyn
Original title Wes Craven's Vampire In Brooklyn
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1995
length 98 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Wes Craven
script Michael Lucker ,
Charlie Murphy ,
Chris Parker
production Mark Lipsky ,
Eddie Murphy
music J. Peter Robinson
camera Mark Irwin
cut Patrick Lussier
occupation

Vampire in Brooklyn is an American horror comedy by Wes Craven from the year 1995 .

action

A ship rams the Brooklyn docks . The night watchman, Silas Green, only discovers pale corpses on board and a wolf who transforms into a figure on the quay .

Julius Jones, Silas Green's nephew, is threatened with a gun by two gangsters. The vampire Maximillian kills the two and gives Julius drops of his blood. Thereupon he becomes a ghoul , a slave servant.

Maximilian is looking for the police officer Rita Veder, who - unconsciously - is a half-vampire and therefore an ideal partner for him. A few months earlier, Rita cannot cope with the death of her mother and is plagued by terrible visions and nightmares, which she processes in the painting of pictures.

Rita and her colleague Justice are tasked with investigating the morgue and the murder of the gangsters. Maximilian devises intrigues to destroy the looming love affair between Justice and Rita. He makes the policewoman believe that Justice had sex with her roommate Nikki. In truth, it was Maximilian who seduced and murdered Nikki. Maximilian creates two life-threatening situations for Rita in which he saves her life. So she lets himself be invited to dinner in his dungeon, which is enchanted in a high society domicile, in which he bites her to dance and bites.

The next morning Justice visits Rita and tells her that Nikki was found as she painted her the night she disappeared. Rita physically approaches Justice in an irritating way, but when she doesn't see a reflection of herself in the mirror, she recognizes the connections and runs to Maximilian, from whom she learns about the human-vampire relationship of her parents on an island in the Caribbean. about which Justice is informed by the then leader of Rita's mother. Justice arrives at the vampire's domicile and is inferior in the fight, but Rita, who has apparently become a vampire, is still human enough to kill Maximilian and turn back. The now very disfigured Julius takes the opposite route and slips Maximilian's ring over his finger, which makes him an attractive vampire.

Reviews

James Berardinelli wrote that the filmmakers were no longer able to make good vampire films. There are some comical scenes, but the comedy does not keep its promises. Eddie Murphy "still" has the screen presence.

Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times that it was "optimistic" to describe the film as a "comedy".

Cinema wrote that Eddie Murphy was "finally blasting the already unoriginal story to the grave" and summed up: "Lots of ketchup, but bloodless gossip."

The lexicon of international films wrote that the film was a "[t] ypen-like parody", which "definitely had some wit to offer" and was entertaining "with ambiguous sayings".

production

The horror comedy was shot in Brooklyn . It cost about $ 14 million and grossed about $ 19.8 million at the US box office. It was Eddie Murphy's last film under his exclusive contract with Paramount Pictures (which started at Just 48 Hours and included the Beverly Hills cop series). During filming, stunt woman Sonya Davis died when she sustained severe head injuries in a fall from a height of around 15 meters. Murphy said in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine about the film's low success: “The wig was the deciding factor. People see me with long hair and say: Get out of here, what the hell is that? "

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Review by James Berardinelli
  2. ^ Review by Roger Ebert
  3. ↑ Vampires in Brooklyn on cinema.de
  4. ↑ Vampires in Brooklyn. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  5. ↑ Gross profit on boxofficemojo.com
  6. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from March 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.chicagoartistsresource.org
  7. ↑ http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/eddie-murphy-the-rolling-stone-interview-20111109

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