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Eddie Murphy Almost Played One of Horror’s Most Famous Villains. Here’s What Happened Instead.

A long-running rumor claims Eddie Murphy nearly played one of horror’s most iconic villains, but the truth is a lot murkier.

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Eddie Murphy’s work falls under many different categories, but horror, for the most part, isn’t one of them. And that isn’t to say he didn’t dabble in the genre a couple of times over the years. In 1995, Murphy teamed up with Wes Craven for Vampire in Brooklyn, though that was more of a horror-comedy than a straight horror film. And how do we feel about 2003’s The Haunted Mansion? It’s got ghosts, that’s for sure. However, it’s also a Disney flick geared toward children; not exactly something you’d expect to see on a list of great horror movies.

But according to several........

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