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creature feature

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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Almost sixty years before the classic 1975 creature feature "Jaws" scared moviegoers away from the beaches, President Woodrow Wilson infamously declared a "war on sharks" to retaliate against the species for a series of New Jersey shore attacks.

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On one level, “Infested” is a well-worn, thoroughly efficient creature feature with sleek effects and pell-mell pacing.

Other highlights: “No Overnight Parking,” Meg Swertlow’s bloody dark comedy starring Alyssa Milano as a woman who faces an assailant in a parking lot; “Sucker,” Alix Austin’s creature feature about sisters attacked by a life-sucking leech; and “The Erl King,” Genevieve Kertesz’s folk-horror fairy tale about a girl who learns that even magical woods house smooth-talking jerks.

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.

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

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