Terms vs Mockbuster - What's the difference?
terms | mockbuster |
(informal) A relatively low-budget film given a similar theme and title to a popular blockbuster in an attempt to piggyback on its success.
*{{quote-news, year=2007, date=October 7, author=Rolf Potts, title=The New B Movie, work=New York Times
, passage=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). }}
As nouns the difference between terms and mockbuster
is that terms is while mockbuster is (informal) a relatively low-budget film given a similar theme and title to a popular blockbuster in an attempt to piggyback on its success.mockbuster
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