Once, long ago, legend has it that someone sat in a movie theater watching a summer blockbuster and thought to himself, "I wish there were another movie almost exactly like this one –- but really crappy."
Thus was born the mockbuster –- a genre of film unto itself, in which Hollywood movies are imitated by a low-budget production company working feverishly to turn out a movie with a similar title, plot, and concept that will be ready to hit the DVD and video-on-demand market just as the Hollywood version is about to hit theaters.
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