Vampire in Brooklyn (also known as Wes Craven's Vampire in Brooklyn) is a 1995 American horror/comedy film directed by horror legend Wes Craven, and starring Eddie Murphy and Angela Bassett. Allen Payne, Kadeem Hardison, John Witherspoon, Zakes Mokae, and Joanna Cassidy co-star. Eddie Murphy wrote the film's script, along with Vernon Lynch and Charlie Murphy. In addition to playing the main character, Murphy also plays an alcoholic preacher and a foul-mouthed Italian gangster.

An abandoned ship crashes into a dockyard in Brooklyn, and the ship inspector, Silas Green, checks out the ship, only to find, to his horror, that the ship is full of corpses. Elsewhere, Julius, Silas's petty nephew, has a run-in with some Italian mobsters. Just as the two goons are about to do away with Julius, Maximillian, a suave but mysterious Caribbean man, shows up, reveals himself as a vampire, and kills the gangsters. Soon after, Maximillian infects Julius with his vampiric blood, turning Julius into a slowly decaying ghoul; he then explains that he has come to Brooklyn in search of the half-human daughter of a vampire from his native Caribbean island in order to live beyond the night of the next full moon.

This half-human vampire turns out to be Rita Veder, a police detective who is still dealing with the death of her mentally unstable mother some months before. Rita begins having strange visions about her (or at least a woman that looks like her), and while she begins questioning about her mother's past, her partner Justice, who feels more than just partnership for her, just thinks that Rita is still grieving. However, Maximillian initiates a series of sinister methods to find out more about Rita and to further pull her into his seductive thrall.

In the United States, the MPAA rated the film "R" for "strong language and vampire violence." In the UK, the movie was given a "15" certificate for "mild horror, dark humor of an adult theme, sex scenes, and language."