As the horror movie genre can be a very niche topic, and a tight knit community, there are always specific websites dedicated to all thing’s horror movie reviews and news. Either its releasing trailers for upcoming blockbusters, breaking news about an actor/actress joining a cast, or maybe even an interview of a well-known horror movie director about an upcoming project. Usually every sub-genre is covered on these websites, and the reader or audience can stay informed about all horror movie news.
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The first article we’re going to look at is the A Quiet Place Part II featurette. This just provides a preview of the upcoming movie set to release in 2020. It also provides featurette type video of interviews from Director John Krasinski and actress Emily Blunt. This is a news type article because it is very informative, gives insight into the new movie, and is giving more press to hype the audience up before the actual release date is given. It’s a very simple and straight to the point. This article is a reliable source because it provides the links for this videos, and referencing this other news source, thus backing up its claims for the information they are telling the reader.
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This article is much like the first article to where it provides updates to a movies actor roster as filming has already begun for the movie. Guillermo del Toro is a very well-known horror movie director. Del Toro has directed big movies like The Shape of Water, Pans Labyrinth, or more recently known, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. Whenever news hits of del Toro working on another film, the horror movie lovers get excited, so this article is very informative. This article is reliable because like the first article is provides another source of where it’s getting its information about the official synopsis of the film and character descriptions.
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In the movie review/movie critic realm we see A LOT of opinion based articles as reviews and critics are strictly based off the person who’s writing its opinion. Often times you’ll read one review praising a movie and then can find a review saying it was awful and terrible, so more often than not the news you’re getting about movies are very opinion based or analytical.
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This is a movie review of this recently released remake of the grim fairytale Hansel and Gretel, know named Gretel and Hansel. As this is a review it is a very opinion based and analytical. It is analytical because it provides some quotes and aspects of the film and breaks them down. This is also opinion based because we get the authors opinion about how the movie was underdeveloped and overshadowed by the photography aesthetic. “Together, Jeremy Reed’s production design and Galo Olivares’s photography weave a chilly spell that’s regrettably undermined by the opacity of the storytelling. Like our two babes in the wood, the movie needs a bit more meat on its bones.” This is a reliable source as it comes from The New York Times and they are well reputable news and media outlet.
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This last article is very much like the other review with it being both analytical and opinion based. It pulls aspects of the film and breaks them down, and helps explain the plot line a little more for those who haven’t seen the movie. It then goes into the reviewer’s opinion as he says “it doesn’t make you feel like you’ve watched a failed adaptation of a horror-lit landmark” and “It just leaves you feeling totally screwed over.” This also comes from a very reputable news and media outlet, The Rolling Stone. Anything usually coming from trusted news outlets like this definitely have some reliability to them.
