best films, and the studio Paramount wanted them to make essentially a sort of Horror version of Beverly Hills Cop. The original drafts of the script were much darker and much, much more Brooklyn centric and very, very cool. I think the original ending had an oil tanker truck hanging off the side of the Brooklyn Bridge and this sort of fight with Eddie, Angela Bassett and Allen Payne all in is this thing. I remember him telling me one day that the head of the studio at Paramount had dragged him in after seeing some of the dailies and was yelling at him that it needed to be funny. It needed to be funny the way Jack Nicholson was funny in The Shining, when he says, ‘here's Johnny’ and Wes's response was, ‘Do you hear yourself? You're saying this needs to be funny, like The Shining… so I think it was a brutally hard experience for so many reasons.“ See also Dracula: Dead and Loving It Eddie Murphy filmography List of film accidents Vampire films References External links 1990s American films 1990s comedy horror films 1990s English-language films 1995 films 1995 comedy films 1995 horror films African-American comedy horror films African-American films American comedy horror films American vampire films Films directed by Wes Craven Films scored by J. Peter Robinson Films set in Brooklyn Films set in Los Angeles Paramount Pictures films Vampire comedy films