monster movie

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King Kong is a 1933 monster movie.

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monster movie (plural monster movies)

  1. A movie featuring one or more monsters in a prominent role; a creature feature.
    • 2010, Bruce Kawin, Horror and the Horror Film, page 47:
      Thus the supernatural monster movie may be subdivided into the vampire film, the ghost film, the zombie film and others and Dracula would be a horror/supernatural-monster/vampire movie, while Friday the 13th would be a horror/human/slasher movie.

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