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An amiable zom-com from writer/director Michel Hazanavicius) that faithfully remakes Shin'ichirÔ Ueda's cult crowd-pleaser (2017), with inevitable diminishing returns. It centres on a group of filmmakers who, while shooting a zombie short, are attacked by real zombies. There are some inspired surprises, albeit cribbed from the original; the key addition is a layer of meta humour that turns this into a -style ‘requel’. It stumbles, though, in being simply too slick to recapture the scrappy charm of Ueda's lowbudget breakout.