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Before 9-1-1, where Angela Bassett plays LAPD Sergeant Athena Grant-Nash, she had already dipped her toes into the world of law enforcement in a very different way. Alongside Eddie Murphy, Bassett appeared in the 1995 comedy horror movie Vampire in Brooklyn, directed by the legendary horror guru Wes Craven. Murphy starred as the suave vampire, Maximillian, who starts searching around Brooklyn for his last remaining descendant.
Bassett stars in the movie as Detective Rita Veder, a New York cop who gets unwittingly swept up in Maximillian's undead Ancestry.com attempt. Being the classy star that she is, though, as Rita, Bassett brings her signature strength and grace to the role, managing to balance her character's toughness as a cop with the vulnerability of someone discovering her own mysterious past in the course of the film.
"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.
Is 'Vampire in Brooklyn' Worth Seeing? On Rotten Tomatoes, the movie has a rating of 11%. Doesn't sound great, does it? Well, in recent years, there's been a shift in the perception of the movie. Since its release, the movie has become a cult classic.
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