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Two years later in 1995, one of Witherspoon ’ s biggest years, he played the role Silas Green in the horror comedy Vampire in Brooklyn directed by Wes Craven and starring Eddie Murphy.

Silas Green was ship inspector and the uncle to Julius Jones.

In the beginning of the movie Silas inspects and abandoned ship that crashed in Brooklyn to find that it is full of corpses.

The film did alright in box offices but did not fare well with critics.