# Amor al primer mordisco (1979)

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**Original title**: *Love at First Bite*
**Runtime**: 96 min
**Genres**: Romance, Comedy, Horror
**Directed by**: Stan Dragoti
**Written by**: Robert Kaufman, Mark Gindes
**Starring**: George Hamilton, Susan Saint James, Richard Benjamin, Dick Shawn, Arte Johnson, Sherman Hemsley

> *Your favorite pain in the neck is about to bite your funny bone!*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Midnight subway rattles beneath neon. A tuxedoed aristocrat hunches over a pocket watch, its hands moving backward. His mute valet unpacks bat guano alongside disco records in a SoHo walk-up.

Bela Lugosi’s nephew sucks blood between Tarot readings while Cindy Sondheim sweats through therapy sessions. Her shrink, Rosenberg, stares at the same birthmark she inherited from another century.

Scorsese’s camera circles another immigrant failing to blend.

**Mood tags**: 3am-cult, playful

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