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schlockfest en · NOUN

Etymology

From schlock + -fest.

Meanings

1. (informal) Something cheesy or of poor quality, especially a film.
   • Strangely, she followed this with the no-budget horror schlockfest Garden of the Dead (1972), playing an overwrought trailer trash waitress menaced by zombies on a prison farm where her boyfriend is incarcerated. 2012, Tom Lisanti, Glamour Girls of Sixties Hollywood: Seventy-five Profiles, McFarland & Company, published 2008, →ISBN, page 45:
   • In one of Hollywood's all-time great big-budget schlockfests, Smith saves Earth from alien invasion with swagger and style 2000 April, “Going Hollywood”, in Vibe, page 85:
   • […] and Roger Engel (acting under the name “Zander Vorkov,” holding the 1970 Famous Monsters Fearbook, and dressed as Dracula) during the making of the 1971 schlockfest Dracula vs. Frankenstein (courtesy Douglas M. Whitenack). 2012, Christopher M. O'Brien, The Forrest J Ackerman Oeuvre: A Comprehensive Catalog of the Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Screenplays, Film Appearances, Speeches and Other Works, with a Concise Biography, McFarland & Company (2012), page 49 (image caption)

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