A Caribbean vampire seduces a Brooklyn police officer who has no idea that she is half-vampire.
Maximillian is the only survivor from a race of vampires on a Caribbean Island, and, as a vampire, he must find a mate to keep the line from ending. He knows that a child had been born to a woman who had a vampire father, and he searches for her in Brooklyn. Rita's mother, who has died in an asylum, was that woman and Rita has nightmares that she does not understand. Not knowing that she is part-vampire, Max woos her and attempts to bring her to her bloodsucking destiny. Even though Rita has strange dreams and actions, Justice, her partner, has feelings for her and does not want her involved with this stranger Max. But it is Rita who must decide her destiny.—Tony Fontana <[email protected]>
The last surviving vampire from Caribbean island arrives in New York in search of the dhampir (an offspring of a vampire and a human). The vampire initiates a series of sinister methods to pull the dhampir into his thrall so that his lineage goes on.—[email protected]
The Nosferatu (a race of vampires) were driven away from their homeland in Egypt. Most of them headed north and settled in the Carpathian Mountains in Transylvania, while others migrated south towards Africa. They eventually crossed the Atlantic Ocean, and settled in a Caribbean island. They spend centuries living within the Bermuda Triangle and feeding on travelers. But humans eventually wiped them out. Maximillian is the last surviving vampire and his time is running out. In search of a mate, he travels to Brooklyn. He knows this is where a female dhampir lives, daughter of a long-dead vampire and a female paranormal investigator. He needs to turn her into a real vampire in order for their race to survive. The dhampir in question is police detective Rita Veder, unaware of her own heritage. She has nocturnal habits, she experiences prophetic dreams, and her healing factor prevents her from getting sick or injured. But she considers herself to be a normal woman, and she is a pious Christian. Maximillian's attempts to seduce her are complicated by both her morality, and her growing attraction to her police partner Detective Justice.—Dimos I
A ship of dead men steers into Brooklyn harbor. It keeps going untilit runs aground. A large wolf jumps from the ship. The wolf is the vampireMaximilian [Eddie Murphy], the sole survivor of the massacre of a tribe of vampiresliving on an island in the Bermuda Triangle. Max has come to Brooklyn tofind Rita Veder [Angela Bassett], the half-vampire daughter born to a human and a vampirefrom his tribe.
Meanwhile, Julius Jones [Kadeem Hardison] isn't having a good night. First, there wasthat ship that ran aground and plowed right through the building where heand Silas Green [John Witherspoon] were working. Then his woman kicked him out of the housefor snoring while otherwise engaged. Now, two thugs are after him for hismoney or his blood. Then, just as Julius is about to meet his maker, thevampire Maximilian shows up, neatly kills off the two thugs, and informsJulius that he is to become his renfield and that the first thing he mustdo is retrieve Max's coffin from the ship.
Ship and dock are crawling with the law, one of whom is DetectiveRita Veder. Rita and her partner Justice [Allen Payne] have been sent to investigate theaccident in the harbor and the 18 bodies aboard that were found drained ofblood. While checking out the ship, Rita falls through a rotten floorboardand lands in the cargohold where she finds a coffin and gets a glimpse ofMax, who recognizes her immediately. Rita chases him, but he disappears.When she returns to the cargohold, the coffin is gone, a human earremaining in its place. Max and Julius take the coffin to Julius's house,an apartment he rents from Silas.
The ship's log is retrieved, but it is written in some obscurelanguage that no one at the university can decipher, so it is sent to DrZeko for translation. Zeko's turns out to be a nightclub, but Zeko [Zakes Mokae] is ableto tell that the log speaks about a nosferatu on board. As Rita sits at atable, waiting for Justice to return from a phone call, she doesn't noticethat a cobra in a nearby terrarium has escaped and is crawling toward her.Fortunately, Max is seated nearby and catches the cobra just in time,giving Max the perfect opportunity to introduce himself to Rita. He asksher to dance, believing that one dance with him will make her his, butJustice returns and Julius butts in with his jive talk, so Rita splits,not at all enthralled with Max.
Rita and Justice go back to the apartment Rita shares with roommateNikki [Simbi Khali]. Nikki comes on to Justice but he turns her down and leaves.Instead, Nikki picks up Max and brings him home. Rita overhears thebumping and screaming in Nikki's bedroom. The next morning, Rita findsthat Nikki has split with all her belongings, and there's a note sayingthat she's getting an apartment with a man she just met. Rita assumes itis Justice, and she becomes very jealous.
Time is growing short. Max has to start using drastic measures, liketaking on the personas of other people, such as Preacher Pauly and stupidGuido in order to get closer to Rita. But Max's plans seem to backfire, sohe takes the direct route and saves her from being run over by a speedingtaxi. In gratitude, Rita accepts a dinner date with him. Max hurries backto Julius's apartment and casts every spell he knows to change it from apigsty to an elegant lovenest, complete with candelabras, fireplace, and ababy grand piano. He finally manages to get his dance with Rita as well asa bite on her neck.
Julius is enjoying the benefits of working for a vampire, e.g.,driving the black limo with vanity plates that say 'RIP'. He is alsohaving to adjust to the side-effects, e.g., acquiring a taste for bugs andlosing parts of his body. First his ear, then his right hand, then hishair, then an eye, then his whole right arm.
Meanwhile, Justice is following up a lead that suggests Julius mighthave been involved in the killing of the two thugs a few nights ago. Thenext morning, Justice pays a visit to Julius's apartment where he meetsSilas Green who tells him that Rita was there all night with the newtenant, some suave guy. Just then, Justice receives a call from thedispatcher sending him to investigate a DOA at Brooklyn City Hall. Itturns out to be Nikki.
Justice goes to Rita's apartment to tell her about Nikki. As he isholding her, Rita's tears turn into fangs and she tries to bite his neck.Out of the corner of her eye, she notices that her reflection in themirror is fading. She runs to Max, who tells her of her father, thevampire. Justice goes to see Dr Zeko, who tells him the story of Rita'smother, a researcher who was studying the vampires on his island and whosuccumbed to the powers of the "dark one." Rita is the result, he says. Hewarns Justice that he must kill Max and do it before Rita loses all of herhumanity.
Max attempts to teach Rita how to feed, but she refuses. When shetries to run away, Max retrieves her and brings her to his apartment,intending to leave for the island in the morning. He brings Silas to her,but Justice and Zeko arrive just in time to stop her from feeding on him.A fight breaks out, of course, but Max is easily able to dodge their fistsand stakes. Justice searches out Max's coffin and opens it, prepared tostake him, but he finds Rita laying there. Rita begins to advance onJustice, her fangs showing. She stops long enough to share a kiss with Maxand then stakes him, claiming that this part of her must die. Rita andJustice end up in each others' arms.
Epiloque: Max is dead, and Julius doesn't have much left in the way of limbs,skin, arms, etc., but Silas reminds him that he does have the limo, andthey decide to go for a ride. In the backseat, Julius finds a ring leftbehind by Max and places it on his finger. POOF! Julius has back all hisparts (and then some). There's a new vampire in Brooklyn, and his name isJulius Jones. [Original Synopsis by bj_kuehl.]
