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hagsploitation

hagsploitation noun: a subgenre of horror/thriller that features a formerly-glamorous older actress who plays an insane woman who terrorizes those around her.

Noun

hagsploitation (uncountable)

  1. A subgenre of horror/thriller that features a formerly-glamorous older actress who plays an insane woman who terrorizes those around her.
    • All these aforementioned films confirm that the genre still has cinematic potential. Obviously, the emergence of this "new school" of hagsploitation does not collide with the underground popularity of the retro hag movies.2014, Justyna Stępień, Redefining Kitsch and Camp in Literature and Culture, →ISBN, page 50
    • This expressive, challenging and ambiguous over-production of the affectively, abundantly feminine is a characteristic of hagsploitation, which overlaps the seemingly barren and excluded with outright excess.2017, Erin Harrington, Women, Monstrosity and Horror Film: Gynaehorror, →ISBN

Synonyms of hagsploitation

Origin of hagsploitation

From hag + -sploitation.

Questions about hagsploitation

What does hagsploitation mean?
Hagsploitation means a subgenre of horror/thriller that features a formerly-glamorous older actress who plays an insane woman who terrorizes those around her.
What part of speech is hagsploitation?
Hagsploitation is a noun.

Words near hagsploitation in the dictionary

  1. hags
  2. hagseed
  3. hagseeds
  4. Hagsfeld
  5. hagship
  6. hagsploitation
  7. hagstone
  8. hagstones
  9. Hagstrom
  10. Hagstroms
  11. hagtaper

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