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/ˈmɒkˌbʌstəɹ/ · noun
(informal) A relatively low-budget film given a similar theme and title to a popular blockbuster in an attempt to piggyback on its success..
Whereas the Asylum had a well-defined audience as a horror-movie company, the mockbuster strategy aims at a broader and shallower demographic: some viewers have seen the real blockbuster and want more of the same thing, no matter how lo-fi; some are genre geeks, interested in low-budget adventure and sci-fi films; others rent the movie thinking it is something else (Web sites are rife with the scornful entries of duped film fans).
Use mockbuster when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Mockbuster means (informal) A relatively low-budget film given a similar theme and title to a popular blockbuster in an attempt to piggyback on its success..
Common synonyms include knockbuster.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Whereas the Asylum had a well-defined audience as a horror-movie company, the mockbuster strategy aims at a broader and shallower demographic: some viewers have seen the real blockbuster and want more of the same thing, no matter how lo-fi; some are genre geeks, interested in low-budget adventure and sci-fi films; others rent the movie thinking it is something else (Web sites are rife with the scornful entries of duped film fans).
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