Caribbean culture into the traditional vampire lore was an excellent choice for obvious reasons." Rich Knight from Cinema Bland considers the movie a "underrated classic" and said: “I don't care what anybody says, I love this movie." In 2022, Vampire in Brooklyn was listed among some other “underrated“ vampire movies by Sara Century from Collider who praised Murphy and Bassett’s performances and the humor. On a retrospective article about Wes Craven, Chris Catt from Creepy Catalog praised the movie and considered it as “one of his more underrated movies.“ Angela Bassett’s performance was particularly praised. Danielle Kwateng-Clark from Essence singled out Vampire in Brooklyn as one of the best movies starring Angela Bassett and simply said about it "Every actor plays a cop at least once in their career, and Bassett was great alongside Eddie Murphy in this film." Jake Dee from Screen Rant considers Rita Veder, Angela Bassett's characters, as one of Wes Craven's strongest female characters. Fiona Underhill from Slash Film include Vampire in Brooklyn as one of her best movies at #12: “Vampire in Brooklyn" is a fun horror-comedy, but Bassett's acting is as impressive as ever, even while things around her are so chaotic and a mixture of tones“ For its 25th anniversary, Rotten Tomatoes released a podcast titled "Rotten Tomatoes score is wrong about Vampire in Brooklyn" that attempted to justify why "Vampire in Brooklyn" should have received a higher score calling it a "cult classic" especially for the "under-appreciated sense of the bizarre, a killer score, and some serious chemistry between Murphy and Angela Bassett". They also added: "Look closely, and there are glimmers of Craven's keen sense of the horror-comedy mix, and Murphy's natural-born charisma." The cast and crews thoughts on the film In an interview with Rolling Stone, Murphy gave a reason Vampire in Brooklyn was a failure: "The only way I was able to do Nutty Professor and to get out of my Paramount deal, I had to do Vampire in Brooklyn. But you know what ruined that movie? The wig. I walked out in that longhaired wig and people said, 'Oh, get the fuck out of here! What the hell is this?'" Speaking with director Mick Garris for his “Post Mortem“ interviews, Craven reflected than Murphy wanted to show off his dramatic acting chops: “He didn’t want to be funny at all. He wanted to play it totally straight so