B-moviesque
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]B-moviesque (comparative more B-moviesque, superlative most B-moviesque)
- Resembling or characteristic of a B-movie.
- 1990, London Theatre Record, volume 10, numbers 14-26, page 1154:
- A busty, bespectacled blonde stalks off at the start of Legends of Evil, Anne Caulfleld's B-moviesque fantasia on the evils of British imperialism.
- 2011, Mary Ellen Green, "Rollercoaster of tragedy, comedy and musical theatre", Monday Magazine (Victoria, British Columbia), 30 June 2011 - 6 July 2011, page 17:
- "We rented a laser machine for Ricky Potts',[sic] song, 'Space Aged Bachelor Man' because it takes place in outer space with cats. It's a very B-moviesque vision of outer space," says Britt Small, who is directing the play alongside writer and Atomic Vaudeville co-founder, Jacob Richmond.
- 2012 May 12, Jason Hewlett, “From the basement they come: B-moviesque reviews”, in Kamloops Daily News:
- Given the B-moviesque title of the show, the reviews are primarily of genre pictures: horror, sci-fi, action and comedy.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:B-moviesque.