mockbuster means A relatively low-budget film given a similar theme and title to a popular blockbuster in an attempt to piggyback on its success. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 89 out of 100.
mockbuster is pronounced /ˈmɒkˌbʌstəɹ/.
Etymology
Blend of mock + blockbuster.
noun
- A relatively low-budget film given a similar theme and title to a popular blockbuster in an attempt to piggyback on its success.“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 sco”