Eddie Ranks: Eddie Murphy’s Top Five Caribbean Moments

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July 12, 2013

4. Vampire In Brooklyn (1995)
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Eight years after Raw, Eddie brought the vague accent—think West Indian equivalent of Akeem from Coming to America—back as Maximillian, the title character from the 1995 horror/comedy Vampire with Brooklyn.

Although generally considered one of his least successful movies, Vampire was a labor of love for Eddie, who wrote the screenplay with his brothers Charlie and Vernon, with characters based on people from their youth in BK. As Maximillian observes in the scene below: Brooklyn… I loooove dis place.