LONDON -- A great joke is recycled to very funny effect at the start of this engaging zombie movie spoof. In 1979's "Love at First Bite," George Hamilton, fetched up in full Dracula regalia, wanders the streets of nighttime Manhattan to the complete and utter disregard of the locals. Outside of the slick Richard Curtis school of Hugh Grant humor and television's "The Office," British comedy is in dire straits these days.

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