Guido Angela Bassett as Detective Rita Veder Allen Payne as Detective Justice Kadeem Hardison as Julius Jones John Witherspoon as Silas Green Zakes Mokae as Dr. Zeko Joanna Cassidy as Captain Dewey W. Earl Brown as Police Officer Simbi Khali as Nikki Ray Combs as Game Show Host John LaMotta as Lizzy Production Stunt performer Sonja Davis was fatally injured performing a backward fall. According to Charlie Murphy, the movie was originally going to be a straight horror film with no laughs but Wes Craven brought a different focus to it. He also said: "Maximilian wasn't going to have any redeeming qualities. But Wes taught us that we must get the audience to care about our characters. And even if they didn't know any vampires personally, they would at least have to identify with the type of person he was." About the movie, Eddie Murphy said: "I've always wanted to do something where I was the villain in the movie. I love horror pictures and I was a big fan of Wes Craven. This movie started out as something small, this was a movie my company was just going to produce and the screenplay came together so well that I thought it will be a fun role to play. Because I got to do something kind of scary and had a safety net because the vampire can turn into other peoples. I get to be funny when I'm the preacher and I get to be funny when I'm the Italian guy. And the vampire is pretty straight and I got all these funny stuff happening around me. I felt it was a unique piece to do." Filming lasted for 55 days, of which three were spent on location in New York City and the rest were spent in Los Angeles. Reception Critical response Vampire in Brooklyn was released to coincide with the Halloween season. The film received mostly negative reviews, and was considered at the time as a lesser film of both Murphy and Craven. In the next year, 1996, Craven moved on to begin the hugely successful Scream franchise, while Murphy began concentrating on more family-friendly movies, with his remake The Nutty Professor. On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 12% based on reviews from 33 critics, and the site's consensus is: "Neither scary nor very funny, this misguided effort never lives up to its premise."