genre film

Noun

Meaning

(countable) A film that was produced with the intent of fitting into a specific genre (such as science fiction, romantic comedy, horror, or film noir) with an existing audience.

(uncountable) All such films, collectively.

Examples

Its difficult to do a genre film well, and it doesnt matter if youre talking vampire movies or Dawn of the Dead or The Thing or Escape From New York. Those kind of movies, they understand what the old-school B-movie is supposed to be, they get the throwback of it. Ethan Hawke

As a European filmmaker, you can not make a genre film seriously. You can only make a parody. Michael Haneke

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