- ...a high-camp creature-feature that, astoundingly, is also a bittersweet rumination on aging.
Creature-feature
noun; compounding
A movie that includes a monster or similar "scary" entity. This is a catchy word that fits well in attention-grabbing spaces, such as movies reviews in papers such as the Post. It seems boring to say "monster movie" or, worse yet, "horror film," so a new, rhyming term was invented. Furthermore, it is very easy to discern what the word means. Even though "feature" is a somewhat archaic term for a movie, almost everyone knows what it means. It compounds extremely well with "creature" because both syllables in the two words are similar or identical.
Etymology : creature + feature (movie)
Source : New York Post movie review (for Bubba Ho-tep) by Megan Lehmann
Last modified: 10 June 2008