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creature feature

British  

noun

  1. a horror film featuring a monster

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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To conserve their moisture or maintain their temperature, anywhere from five to 50,000 blackworms intermingle to form writhing blobs seemingly right out of a creature feature.

From Scientific American • Apr. 27, 2023

Tonally the film is a mishmash of thriller, dark comedy and, most disappointingly, gory creature feature without enough gore or creature.

From New York Times • Mar. 31, 2023

I hope you enjoy my creature feature finale:

From Seattle Times • Jan. 3, 2023

Christina Ricci stars in “Monstrous,” a horror film that morphs from haunted-house thriller to creature feature to something else entirely — and something far more interesting.

From Washington Post • May 12, 2022

Our fair city is menaced by ginormous ants in this 1954 creature feature, the sine qua non of the mutated-insect genre of the 1950s.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 27, 2022

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